9th Orphan Film Symposium, Amsterdam, 30/03 – 02/04

January 22, 2014
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From 30 March to 2 April, EYE Film Institute Netherlands is hosting the 9th edition of the Orphan Film Symposium. The event is organised in cooperation with NYU Cinema Studies and the University of Amsterdam. For the first time, it will be held in Europe. Theme of Orphans 9 is “The Future of Obsolescence”: What kind of orphan films document these phenomena? What neglected and orphaned media should we re-view to better understand the world? How should archivists and curators deal with obsolete “new media”? How do archives, museums, libraries, and sister institutions participate in remix culture? The symposium addresses archivists, curators, scholars, technology experts, librarians, collectors, distributors, preservationists, artists, and legal experts alike. It starts on Sunday evening, March 30, 2014, with a film concert and the world premiere of the recent EYE discovery and preservation of East is West (USA, 1922). One session will be dedicated to the FORWARD project, the European Registry for Orphan Works.

Attendance at the Orphan Film Symposium is open to anyone, but advanced paid registration is required. Registration fee is $250 before 15 February, $300 after.
Students and the underemployed may pay half-price. The fees cover access to screenings, panels, performances, and events, catered meals and breaks and a registration packet.

Please register at http://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/
Read the programme here

Conference “Sammeln, Sichern, Sehen. Was ist eine Kinemathek?”, Berlin, 13-14 September 2013

September 5, 2013
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On the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen (Berlin), the Conference “Sammeln, Sichern, Sehen. Was ist eine Kinemathek” (Collecting, preserving, presenting: What are Cinémathèques?”) aims to analyse the origins, the development and the self- definition of Cinematheques and assess their social, political and aesthetical function: How can film museums and film archives remain significant places to create and promote film culture and knowledge? How can they contribute to a modern approach to film heritage? Film archivists and experts will give lectures and discuss in round tables about archival standards, collection practices and their pitfalls, and, last but not least, modes of conveying and presenting their archival goods in exhibitions, screenings or via completely new channels.

Read the conference programme (in German)

69th FIAF Congress in Barcelona

April 17, 2013
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2013-04-03 | The 69th edition of the FIAF Congress, hosted by the Filmoteca de Catalunya, will take place in Barcelona from 21 to 27 April 2013.

The Congress that is organised annually in different countries, is an occasion for FIAF archivists and external experts to share their experiences and to exchange information. The programme consists of symposia, Commission workshops, regional meetings, the presentation of restoration projects and the FIAF General Assembly. This year’s symposium (22-23 April) is dedicated to “Multiversions of films“. EFG1914 will be presented on Wednesday, 24 April.

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69th FIAF Congress 2013, Barcelona

March 22, 2013
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For: FIAF members

Venue: Filmoteca de Catalunya, Plaça de Salvador Seguí, 1-9, Barcelona (Spain)

Find more information on: www.fiafcongress.org/2013

XX Udine International Film Studies Conference, 12-14 March

March 11, 2013
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2013-03-11 | The digital revolution and the birth of Web 2.0 has fundamentally transformed the media landscape. As a consequence, the question of intellectual copyright is at the very center of the public debate and has also begun to draw the attention of scholars and researcher.

The conference “Who’s What? Intellectual Copyright in the Digital Era” will discuss different aspects of this transformation. One section is dedicated to “Property and the Archives”. Nicola Mazzanti (Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, ACE president) and Leontine Bout (EYE Film Institute Netherlands) will present the film archives perspective and speak about the impact of current copyright legislation on their daily work. A round table coordinated by the Association des Cinémathèques Europénnes will look into chances and limitations for using orphan films in view of the European Directive on orphan works.

UDINE conference is part of filmforum, an international festival devoted to cinema and the contemporary visual arts. It brings together scientific research, the dissemination of culture, and exhibition shows. FilmForum takes place in Udine and Gorizia and it offers conferences, meetings, workshops and screenings. It also hosts the Limina Award for Italian and international books on film. The festival addresses a wide-ranging audience which includes specialists, scholars and students in audiovisual and new media studies as well as fans of cinema and visual culture.

Read the full conference programme