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Program to download

Access and Curatorship in the Digital Realm
Discussion

Chair: Andrea Haller (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Respondent: Andrea Průchová Hrůzová
(Czech Academy of Sciences)

Jiří Anger (National Film Archive, Prague)
Shaping the Unshapeable? Digital Kříženecký and Videographic (Re)Imagination of Early Czech Cinema

Paolo Simoni (Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia)
Memoryscapes. Online Access and Programming of Italian Amateur Images from the Cold War

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Lital Henig, Noga Stiassny and Fabian Schmidt
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Image Migration in the Digital Age. Multimodal Curation of Migrating Images from the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps in Digital Infrastructures

Tone Føreland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)
Accountable Access to Digitized Nonfiction Film Heritage

History, Material, Circulation, and Exhibition of Non-Fiction Cinema
Discussion

Chair: Perrine Val
(Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Respondent: Francesco Pitassio
(University of Udine)

Alice Lovejoy (University of Minnesota)
The Materials of Wartime Information

Karol Jóźwiak (University of Lodz)
The War Unconcluded. The Fate of Polish Army Film Units Production and the Post-WWII Europe

Amrita Biswas (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Calcutta Super-8. An Analysis of the ‘Failed’ Movement

The Found Footage and the Home Movies Between Evidence and Microhistory
Discussion

Chair: Paolo Villa (University of Udine)
Respondent: Rossella Catanese
(University of Udine)

Belinda Qian He (UC Berkeley)
Found Footage as Shadow Archive. A Media Archaeology of Shame in China

Zachariah Anderson
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Home Movies as Historical Evidence in Abigail Child’s ‘The Future is Behind You’ (2004)

Vladimir Rosas-Salazar (University of Warwick)
Audiovisual Microhistories in Pinochet’s Chile

KEYNOTE + Discussion

Chair: Vinzenz Hediger
(Goethe University, Frankfurt)

Jaimie Baron (University of Alberta)
Appropriating the Archive. The Ethics of Repurposing Found Audiovisual Materials

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KEYNOTE + Discussion

Chair: Lucie Česálková (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
(Copenhagen Business School)
The Politics of Mass Digitization

Documentary Film as Archive: Film Projects, Appropriation, Networked Practice
Discussion

Chair: Ondřej Haváč (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Respondent: Simone Dotto (University of Udine)

Luis Olano (University of Coimbra)
Another Movie about Spanish Dictatorship. Public Archives, Non-fiction Films and the Conflictive Relation with the Past in Contemporary Spain

John Wyver (University of Westminster/Illuminations)
Films of the Phoenix. Working with the Moving Image Archive about Coventry Cathedral

Donatella Della Ratta (John Cabot University, Rome)
Right, Click, Remove. Image Production and Ownership in the Time of Algorithmic Prediction and Peer Surveillance.

Exhibiting Images of the Past. Theoretical – Curatorial – Artistic Views
ROUNDTABLE

Moderator: Stefanie Plappert (Deutsches Film Institute & Filmmuseum, exhibition curator)

Anna Baumgart (multimedia and feminist artist, Poland)

Rinella Cere (Sheffield Hallam University)

Kamil Lipinski (University of Bialystok)

Alina Popescu (ICUB, University of Bucharest)

Jaimie Baron is an Associate Professor in the English & Film Studies Department at the University of Alberta. She is the founder and director of the Festival of (In)appropriation, an annual international festival of short experimental found footage films. She is also co-editor of the Docalogue website and the Docalogue Book Series (Routledge Press). She is the author of “The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History” (Routledge Press, 2014,) and “Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era” (Rutgers University Press, 2020).

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is an Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at Copenhagen Business School. In her writing, she is interested in how media theory, cultural theory and critical theory can unpack and unfold issues related to datafication and digitization. She is the author of the book “The Politics of Mass Digitization” (MIT Press, 2019). She has written about infrastructures of forgetting and remembering, gendered epistemologies in digital infrastructures, archival affects, small media, content moderation and care, reuse ethics, environmental media and data waste. She contributes to exhibitions and artistic research practices, too. Currently, she organises the research cluster ’Digital transformations and knowledge production’ under the ”The Digital Transformations Platform”.

Zachariah Anderson is a PhD candidate in the Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His primary research interests include media historiography, the role of image-based media as historical evidence, and the relationship between archival filmmaking practices and written historiography.

Jiří Anger is a PhD candidate in film studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in Prague. His research focuses mainly on figuration and materiality in archival footage, experimental cinema, and videographic film criticism. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis titled “Keep That Image Burning: Digital Kříženecký, Found Footage, and the Crack-Up of Archival Moving Image”.

Amrita Biswas is a PhD candidate in the ‘Configurations of Film’ research collective at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her research interests include post-partition trauma in the films of Ritwik Ghatak as well as media infrastructures of alternative and popular Bengali cinema. Her published work focuses on the Super-8 film movement and the culture of cinephilia in Calcutta.

Donatella Della Ratta is a scholar, writer, performer, and curator specializing in digital media and networked technologies, with a focus on the Arab world. She teaches Media Studies at John Cabot University, Rome.

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann is a film historian and media scholar, who serves as Lecturer for Film and German Studies at the Department of Communication and Journalism and the DAAD Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI). He authored several books, among them a study about cinematic narration of the Holocaust, co-edited volumes on European docudrama and the visual memory of the GDR, and published on visual and digital memory of the Holocaust and the appropriation of historical film footage. He is the member of the EU funded Horizon 2020 research project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age”.

Tone Føreland is a film archivist at the National Library of Norway, currently undertaking a PhD research project on Norwegian agricultural films at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology with funding from Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. She holds an MA in film studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 2005 and is a 2005-alumni of the certificate program at the L. Jefferey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman Museum.

Belinda Qian He is a CCS postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. Her research revolves around East Asian cinema, art, performance, media history, and global screen cultures, associated with atrocity, violence, trauma, and witnessing. Her work lies at the intersection of film/media studies, art history, and legal humanities, broadly exploring the role of film, photography, video, and museum in policing, punishing, and social control. Her in-progress book project is titled “Expose and Punish: Trial by Moving Images in China and Beyond”.

Lital Henig is a PhD candidate at the Department of Communication of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her areas of interest include Holocaust studies, visual arts, culture studies, film studies, witnessing and testimonies, and media studies. She is a member of the EU funded Horizon 2020 research project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age”.

Karol Jóźwiak is a researcher at the Culture Studies Department of the University of Lodz. His main research areas address different issues of European transnational functioning of art and cinema in relation to the questions of memory, writing history, identity and politics in the 20th century. Moreover, he works as an art critic and curator, collaborating with different institutions in Poland and in Europe on exhibitions of XX century art. Currently he supervises the research project entitled “Sovietophilia in Post-Fascist Italian Film Culture” (funded by Polish National Research Center).

Alice Lovejoy is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and the Moving Image Studies program at the University of Minnesota, and a former editor at Film Comment. She is the author of Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military (Indiana, 2015; Czech translation, NFA, forthcoming), and the co-editor, with Mari Pajala, of Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations (Indiana, forthcoming). She is at work on a book entitled “Tales of Militant Chemistry: Film and its Raw Materials”.

Luis Olano is a filmmaker and a PhD candidate in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies at the Centre of Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. He is the author of the film “Sender Barayón. Viaje hacia la luz (A trip into the light)” (2019, 87′, Spain) and is currently working on a project about testimonies of perpetrators of large-scale human rights violations and crimes against humanity during Spanish dictatorship (1939-1975).

Vladimir Rosas-Salazar is a Chilean journalist and researcher. He received his MA in Film and Screen Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is currently undertaking a PhD in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. Rosas-Salazar’ research interests include amateur filmmaking and video aesthetics.

Fabian Schmidt is a PhD candidate at the Film University Babelsberg. He is a sociologist (Dipl) and holds an MA in film culture heritage. Currently he is working as a research assistant in the EU funded Horizon 2020 research project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” and his dissertation is titled “The Westerbok film in the context of Holocaust remembrances”.

Paolo Simoni is co-founder of the Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia in Bologna, which he’s been directing since 2002 and for which he has conceived, produced and curated a variety of projects, like Archivio Aperto festival and Memoryscapes digital platform. He published numerous papers about the forms, practices and stories of amateur/experimental cinema and its contemporary reuse and the book “Lost Landscapes. Il cinema amatoriale e la città” (Kaplan, Torino 2018).

Noga Stiassny is a postdoctoral research fellow at the DAAD Center for German Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in the EU funded Horizon 2020 research project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age”. Her research interests are art history, visual history, heritage, memory, and Jewish culture, with a particular focus on landscape – topics on which she has published several articles in leading journals.

John Wyver is a writer and producer with the independent media production company Illuminations which he co-founded in 1982. His films and television broadcasts have been honoured with a BAFTA Award, and International Emmy and a Peabody. He is Professor of the Arts on Screen at the University of Westminster, and Director, Screen Productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His publications include “Vision On: Film, Television and the Arts in Britain” (2007) and “Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History” (2019).

Anna Baumgart is a multimedia artist, best known for her large installation pieces and films. In her work, she frequently employs the feminist approach and examines the themes and issues of Polish modern history, namely the holocaust. Her artworks have been exhibited internationally and are part of several art collections of prestigious Polish institutions (e.g. Zacheta National Gallery of Art).

Rinella Cere is a researcher and lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. She specializes on topics of postcolonial theory and media and international museums of cinema. She has lately published a book “An International Study of Films Museums” (Routledge 2020) in which she provides an analysis of five different film museums located in Europe and the US.

Kamil Lipiński is assistant professor at the University of Bialystok interested in the film-philosophy relationship. He edited the theme issue of the journal Sensus Historiae entitled “French Cultural Theory: Contexts and Applications”. He has also published on the philosophy of culture and visual media arts and French theory in numerous journals, e.g.  Journal of Aesthetics & Culture or Alphaville. Journal of Film and Media. Lipiński is a Co-Chair of NECS Film-Philosophy Workgroup.

Stefanie Plappert is a curator of temporary and permanent exhibitions in DFF Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. She frequently publicly comments and publishes on the topic of film presentation in a museum.

Alina Popescu is a post-doctoral fellow at Research Institute of the University of Bucharest – Social Sciences Division (ICUB). She is involved in the digital curatorial film project Sahia Vintage (sahiavintage.ro). In her research work, she is interested in the political and cultural history of the Soviet past in Romania in the context of the Central and Eastern European historical trajectory.

All panel presentations are available as pre-recorded videos on this website.

The audience is expected to watch all presentations beforehand.

All panel discussions will be held on Zoom for registered audience.

Please register here.

Both keynotes and the roundtable will be streamed on Facebook VictorE.HERA and on YT Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR.

To ask questions, please comment on Facebook or Youtube, or send your question via email to victore.prague@gmail.com.

All events will be recorded and later published in the video section of the conference website.