Members

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Country
France

Amis des Archives départementales de l’Ain

1 boulevard Paul Valéry
F-01000 Bourg-en-Bresse
Website

Les Archives départementales de l'Ain sont en convention de partenariat depuis 2007 avec la Cinémathèque des pays de Savoie et de l'Ain pour la collecte, la sauvegarde, le traitement documentaire, la conservation, la numérisation et la valorisation des films amateurs.


  • Métrages occupés : 73,65 ml
  • Volumétrie : 1 435 supports originaux conservés (argentiques et magnétiques), dont 130 km de pellicule
  • Nombre de fonds : 134
  • Nombre total d’heures de films numérisés : 389 h 59
  • Dates extrêmes : 1925 à 2008
  • Supports : argentiques (9.5 mm, 8 mm, super 8, double 8, 16 mm, 35 mm) et bandes magnétiques (U-matic, Bétacam, VHS, Hi8, etc.), bandes sonores
  • Modalités d’acquisition proposées : don, dépôt ou prêt pour transfert sur support numérique, accompagné par une cession des droits d’exploitation (communication, diffusion publique, etc.)
Activities :
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Contact : Cécile Gerbe-Servettaz - Archiviste, chargée des fonds iconographiques et audiovisuels
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United Kingdom

Anna Briggs

Lytham St Annes
Website

Moving Image Archivist -


I am an archive researcher, curator and moving image archivist based in Lancashire.

My work experience spans curatorial work (exhibitions, screenings), film literacy (expertise/consultancy, teacher training, tailored events for audiences from kindergarten to reminiscence groups), archive research for experimental and documentary films, directorial work (see my projects below), lecturing (documentary film, cataloguing), academic research (information science field research in film archives on three continents, film history, film economics), co-founding and co-directing organisations (including community digitisation lab MIPoPS in Seattle), online resource design and curation.

I was trained at the universities of Bristol, Naples, Siena and Tours (undergraduate), Bologna, UCLA and Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne (post-graduate).

I am currently exploring different avenues at the intersection of amateur arts practice, programming/curating, non-fiction moving images, lifelong learning, dementia and elder care, outsider art, mental health and wellbeing, cognitive science and epistemology, disability and accessibility.

Since 2023
Activities :
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France

ARCHIPOP

8 rue du Musée
F-60000 Beauvais
+33 3 44 22 60 55
Website

Since 2003, ARCHIPOP aims to collect, save and promote films reflecting the activities, events and daily life in Nord-Pas-de-Calais - Picardie.


Created in 2003, the association Archipop gather over 1200 hours from more than 250 personal collections, representing more than 3000 reels. The collection grows each month with over 50 hours of newly acquired amateur movies.
Archipop addresses to a wide audience through a set of actions and tools which supports uses and projects promoting archives :
Public screenings, exhibition of still frames, screening with live music, participatory cataloguing, in-school workshops, production of contents for regional web TV, workshops, short films shows before main screening in cinemas, documentaries and multimedia creation...

Archipop is also thought for a public with more specific expectations : organizations, local authorities, academics, students, researchers, authors, teachers, librarians, resource centers, archives, agencies, audiovisual professionals, artists (composers, multimedia creators, visual artists...).

All these promoting actions are extended through collaborations and partnerships : Canopé Academy of Amiens, Inventory and Cultural Heritage Direction of the Regional Council, Jules Verne University, University of Technology of Compiègne, ABAC and Chrysalid (Cinémondes Festival in Berck), Historic Film Festival of Compiègne, National Circus of Amiens, Safir (regional authors and filmmakers)...

Archipop is an association supported by the Regional Council of Hauts de France, the DRAC Nord Pas de Calais - Picardie, the County Council of the Somme, the County Council of Aisne, the CGET and several local authorities.

Archipop owns a conservation center adapted to the film preservation condition.
High definition digitization of films and videos is ensured by a trusted external provider.
The cataloguing of audiovisual collection is completed on DIAZ, a database specifically tailored to amateur film archives needs.

Since 2003
Activities :
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Contact : François Raboteau - Coordinator
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France

Archives départementales de la Manche

103 rue Maréchal Juin
50000 Saint-Lô
33 2 33 75 10 53
Website

Le service des archives sonores et audiovisuelles des archives départementales de la Manche a été créé fin 2000. Consacré dans un premier aux archives sonores le service s'est ouvert par la suite aux archives audiovisuelles.


Le service a une vocation à la fois historique et patrimoniale. Il est en charge, d’une part, du collectage des témoignages des acteurs ayant pris part, témoins ou dépositaires d’une mémoire des événements marquants de ce siècle, et d’autre part, des savoirs et savoir-faire traditionnels et contemporains (d’hier et d’aujourd’hui). Il a également pour mission de recevoir de la part des particuliers et des professionnels qui le souhaitent des documents sonores et audiovisuels concernant le département.
Les principaux thèmes abordés, en lien avec la production d’une identité culturelle manchoise, sont : la littérature orale (chants traditionnels, contes, proverbes), la mémoire du vécu (témoignages d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, de ce qui relève du quotidien, avec ses habitudes culturelles et ses bouleversements historiques), des techniques et savoir faire.
Depuis 2016, participation au festival L'Ecume des films avec la réalisation à trois voix (Normandie Images, Fabrique de Patrimoines et archives départementales de la Manche) d'un montage à partir d'archives audiovisuelles.

Since 2000
Activities :
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Contact : Domnine Plume - responsable centre de ressources archives sonores et audiovisuelles
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FRANCE

Archives départementales du Puy-de-Dôme

75 rue de Neyrat - BP 20
F-63018 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 2
+33 4 73 23 45 80
Website

The Photothèque63 is a service of the Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme based in the departmental archives. This service collects, preserves and promotes the photography and cinema films interesting Auvergne.


Since 2015, the Heritage and ethnology department created in 1980 to collect, study and promote the tangible and intangible heritage of the Puy-de-Dôme, joined the Library to showcase the filmed interviews during investigations and expand its business collection of amateur and unreleased films about Auvergne.

Since 2015
Online collection: http://phototheque.cg63.fr
Activities :
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  • Valorisation
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  • Collecte
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Contact : Olivier Meunier
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France

Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir

28 place Saint-Georges
F-75009 Paris
+33 1 53 32 75 08
Website

The mission of the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Centre (CASdB) is to gather films and videos about women's issues and feminism starting in the seventies.


Rising from the enthusiasm of May 68 and the Estates General of the cinema, interventionist cinema also rose from its ashes, with the desire to film reality as it happens and to act on the protest movements. In this effervescent and activist context, women directors seized on the cinema's new resources such as video, using Sony's Portapak movie cameras. These directors accompanied their history and battles and took charge of their own representation. Like Virginia Woolf who demanded "a room of her own" feminists demanded "a camera of their own".
More or less everywhere in France, video collectives — un-incorporated, fluctuating and innovative — grew.
It is on those bases, with the concern of video tapes conservation and with the aim to increase production, that the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Centre was funded in 1982 by Carole Roussopoulos, Ioana Wieder, both filmmakers and feminist video pioneers, and Delphine Seyrig, actress and activist film director.

Today,  the CASdB's missions include:

- The preservation and restoration of a collection of more than 1,200 titles about Women’s history, struggles, art, creation and LGBTQI rights.
- Film circulation and non profit distribution through programming and projections in France and abroad.
- Workshops in schools and high-schools on image analysis, gender stereotypes in film, history of women's rights through feminist cinema and pedagogical internet site : Genrimages
- Production of new footage
- Avaibility of audiovisuals contents
- Films distribution and sale of images; video editing.
The film collection of the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center is composed of many previously unseen and original works. The collection is a fundamental part of the audiovisual heritage of the 1970-1980 period
We continue to enrich the collection with 21st century productions.

Since 2003
Activities :
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Contact : Peggy Préau
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Luxembourg

Centre national de l'audiovisuel

1b rue du Centenaire
L-3475 Dudelange
+352 52 24 241
Website

The Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) is a cultural institution created in 1989 and placed under the authority of the Ministry of Culture. Its missions are the preservation, development and promotion of the audiovisual and photographic heritage of Luxembourg.


In 2007 the CNA moved to new premises and has now become both an exhibition space, as well as a place for film screenings, access to archival documents, but is also a specialist for long term preservation of their collections (analogue and digital), with professional studio spaces (sound and film) and photographic laboratories.

Since 1989
Activities :
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  • Numérisation
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Contact : Victor Pranchère
> More informations
France

Ciclic - Centre-Val-de-Loire

24 rue Renan
F-37110 Château-Renault
+33 2 47 56 08 08
Website

Ciclic is a French regional agency for litterature, moving images and digital culture, based in Centre-Loire Valley Region. In 2006, Ciclic has created a special department to collect, preserve and valorise amateur films made in this part of France.


Ciclic agency, implements a cultural public service born from the cooperation between the Center-Val de Loire Region and the State. Cooperation, research, innovation, support for professionals and the audience, regional planning and cultural economy are the foundations of the missions it carries and the actions it develops. Training, sensibilization, educational research, artistic creation, access to culture, heritage conservation and development are all areas of intervention for the team of the public institution of cultural cooperation that puts its expertise at the service for all and promotes the permanent emergence of projects.

Its missions are organized around several sectors of activity:

  • Creation (film and book)
  • The Diffusion pole,
  • The Education pole,
  • The Heritage pole,

The Heritage division is dedicate to the collection, indexing, digitization, preservation and enhancement of the regional film and audiovisual heritage and offers the possibility of viewing, comment and creating with more than 14 000 films online on memoire.ciclic.fr

Since 2006
Online collection: http://memoire.ciclic.fr
Activities :
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  • Numérisation
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  • Valorisation
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  • Production
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  • Documentation
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Contact : Rémi Pailhou - Head of department
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France

Ciné-Archives

2 place du Colonel Fabien
F-75019 Paris
+33 1 40 40 12 50
Website

Ciné-Archives is the association in charge of audiovisual archives of the French Communist Party and the labor movement


Ciné-Archives’s mission is to preserve and provide access to this moving image collection. This audiovisual heritage is kind of a communist-oriented time machine, as it shows images from the Popular Front, the Spanish Civil War, the Libération-era following WW2, the Cold War, the war in Viet-Nam, as well as films about the communist cities, specially in the Paris suburbs.
We have launched in the mid-2000s a campaign to collect amateur films shot by Communist activists, which resulted in a discovery of more than 100 amateur films.

Activities :
  • Numérisation
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  • Valorisation
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  • Documentation
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Contact : Marion Boulestreau
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France

CINÉAM

41A rue Alexandre Soljenitsyne
F-91000 Evry
+33 9 52 79 99 22
Website

The association CINEAM collects and promotes amateur films in the french department of Essonne and in the Paris suburbs.
Our archives collections contributes to the knowledge of the history of these places in a region, Paris and the surrounding area, undergoing major change.


Movies of the 30s about the open-air dance halls of the forest of Sénart, harvests and village feasts in the 40s, detached houses in in the suburbs, trade fairs of the 60s, brand new housing estates, building site of the new town of Evry... Through the poetry of family movies, these images show in a unique way landscaped and architectural changes, history of the social housing, evolution of life in rural areas in the South-Essonne ….
CINEAM is mainly supported by the french department of Essonne.
Original footages are preserved in appropriate facilities provided by this institution.

Activities :
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  • Numérisation
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Contact : Laurence Bazin - Déléguée générale
> More informations
France

Cinémathèque de Corse

Espace Jean-Paul de Rocca Serra
F-20137 Porto-Vecchio
+33 4 20 20 20 01/02
Website

The Corsican Cinematheque, under the authority of the region of Corsica, collects, preserves and promotes films of the past time but also contributes to create memories and testimonies for the future thanks to the "regional legal deposit' (movie works produced nowadays in Corsica).


Films, posters, press-books, photographs, drawings, screenplays, books...are gathered to constitute this saved film heritage.
Movies with Corsica as the subject, movies filmed in Corsica, made by corsican people, the beginnings of cinema, exploitation and distribution of movies in the island...
But it looks also on the Mediterranean and more particularly on Italy. And other islands and other seas... as the films linked to Napoleon and Colomba lead to America...
The amateur film is a special case and the approach of the Corsican Cinematheque is to pass on a regional heritage. These films have been entrusted by their author or their family and these personal and intimate images gained a collective dimension and became witnesses of an period, a story and a region.
The Cinematheque has also an important activity in its movie theater named "Abel Gance" in Porto-Vecchio and throughout the island where it has developed many partnerships with cultural institutions. It also presents a selection of representative movies in the towns and villages of the island with the "Cinémathèque Itinerante".
It also assumes an important pedagogical mission : partner of the Movie Option to the Baccalaureate, partner of a high school participating in 'Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse' of the Cinémathèque Française, survey of the associations entrusted with the pedagogical projects Ecole et Cinéma, Collège au Cinéma and LAAC (high schools).

Since 2000
Activities :
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Contact : Nathalie Rossi - head of the cinema and audiovisual department
> More informations
France

Cinémathèque de Nouvelle-Aquitaine

4 avenue de la Révolution
F-87000 Limoges
+33 6 69 10 92 42
Website

Created in 2009 by Marc Wilmart, La Cinématheque de Nouvelle-Aquitaine propose to guarantee the collection, the digitization, the preservation and the promotion of cinematic regional heritage.


Our tasks :

• to look after the films possessors and every element related to the cinematic image history,
• to receve the donation of every material or immaterial element related to cinematography,
• to conserve a copy of movies shooted in the territory or having a link with it,
• to develop relations with linked organism,
• to supply a website accessible to all,
• to organise projections,
• to record by our means every element participating in the regional memory, in all the domains,

La Cinémathèque is a member of the INEDITS association since 2013.

Since 2009
Activities :
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  • Numérisation
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  • Valorisation
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  • Documentation
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Contact : Patrick Malefond - Director
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France

Cinemathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l'Ain

12 bis Route d'Annecy
F-74290 Veyrier-du-Lac
+33 4 50 23 51 09
Website

The Cinematheque collect, preserve and promote the unique audiovisual memory in the Rhône-Alpes region.


Amateur films, corporate films, family films including over 8,000 reels of film and video media representing 480 donators have been saved.

These archived images are an unique testimony on the sociocultural history of the territory.

The Cinemathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l'Ain installed in a historic place of exception at the lake of Annecy, features a movie theater and proposes an exhibition each year to welcome the public.

Since 1999
Online collection: http://www.archivalp.eu/
Activities :
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Contact : Clément Saccomani - Director
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Switzerland

Cinémathèque Suisse

Casino de Montbenon - C.P. 5556
1002 Lausanne
Website

Founded in 1948, the Swiss Cinematheque Suisse is recognised by FIAF as one of the ten most important film archives in the world in term of the size, diversity and quality of its collections.


In addition to the 85,000 fiction and documentary films, it holds thousands of hours of film documents, the archives of the Ciné-Journal suisse, as well as millions of posters, photographs, sceenplays, books and periodicals, sets and antique equipment. The institution offers retrospectives, tributes and thematic cycles, and organises numerous events in the presence of film personalities, in Lausanne or at festivals.

Since 1948
Activities :
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  • Numérisation
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Contact : Frédéric Maire - Director
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France

Cinémémoire

11 rue du Commandant Mages
F-13000 Marseille
+33 4 91 62 46 30
Website

Cinémémoire is a movie library which collects amatorial home movies focusing on Marseille, its region and the former French colonies. Its mission is the protection of the audiovisual heritage as well as its promotion and development.


Cinememoire aims at preserving and publishing audiovisual supports. It collects, scans, classifies and archives unpublished films since 1995. At this stage, it has collected more than 1800 hours of numerised movies realized since 1920. This collection is daily enriched by digitization and indexation of new films. The website offers an online selection as well as a professional section and drop – in facility. Cinémémoire collection is mainly composed of non professional films and institutional or artistic documentaries, which show daily life scenes in Provence and former french colonies.
Its goal is to restore, preserve and publish through the website « cinememoire.net » Provence’s audiovisual memory and heritage. To promote its funds Cinememoire has realised several projects such as collecting former colonial films « Shared memories », and the website « Arpenteurs d'Images » concerning the Bouches-du-rhône district.
Cinememoire also organize educational workshops and movies projection.

Since 21 mai 2001
Online collection: http://arpenteursdimages.fr/
Activities :
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Contact : Claude Bossion - Directeur
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France

Denis Bepoix (La Cinémathèque des Monts Jura)

12, rue de la Poyat
F-39200 Saint-Claude
03 84 45 24 84 et 06 77 01 75 41
Website

Association loi 1901 avec une trentaine de membres actifs.


Recherche et répertoire de films amateurs et documentaires Jurassiens ou de réalisateurs Jurassiens avec une option de "rendu" au public de ces images souvent délaissées.

Since 20 mars 2010
Activities :
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  • Numérisation
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Contact : Denis Bepoix - Trésorier de l'association
> More informations
United States

Dwight Swanson

2426 McRae Rd
23235 North Chesterfield, Virginia
1-443-630-7089
Website

Independent curator and historian


Dwight Swanson is a home movie specialist, with training as an archivist, who was one of the creators of Home Movie Day and founding board members of the Center for Home Movies. His current focus is on home movie curatorial projects and writing amateur film histories.

Selected past projects:
Producer & Director, Amateur Night: Home Movies from American Archives, 35mm home movie compilation film
Producer, Living Room Cinema: Films from Home Movie Day DVD
Co-curator, Other Histories: Amateur Films on the National Film Registry, preservation and screening series, 2020
Co-curator, Home Movie Day and Night: The 24-Hour Marathon, home movie online event, 2019
Organizer of Cinema Ephemera, symposium and screening on nontheatrical films, Baltimore, 2016

Activities :
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France

ECPAD

2 à 8 route du Fort
F-94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
+33 1 49 60 52 06
Website

ECPAD, audiovisual agency of the Ministry of Defense since 1915, holds an exceptional collection of moving images and photographs: 43 000 film titles and 14 million pictures. The collection, which is progressively digitized, is constantly growing by the photographs and moving images shot by ECPAD’s news crews, by the deposit of images of military reporters of other organizations of Ministry of Defense and by private donations.


Under the administrative supervision of the Ministry of Defense, ECPAD guarantees the permanent availability of its news crews who are specially trained in covering operations in real time, in order to testify the engagement of the French Armed Forces in all theatres of operations. In this regard, for a better understanding of current French military undertakings, the photographic and video coverage produced in France and abroad by the ECPAD crews is made available to the French and foreign media.
ECPAD is acting as a cultural operator by editing DVDs, books and photographs on military corps and history.

Since 1915
Online collection: https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/
Activities :
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  • Numérisation
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  • Valorisation
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Contact : Emmanuelle Flament-Guelfucci - chef du pôle des archives par intérim
> More informations
Switzerland

Fondation Autrefois Genève

186 route de Saint-Julien
CH - 1228 Plan-les-Ouates Geneva
+41 22 777 12 00
Website

The FONDATION AUTREFOIS GENEVE
 
The Fondation Autrefois Genève was created to preserve the local audiovisual heritage. Thanks to the program of the same name currently broadcasted on Léman Bleu, a swiss television channel based in Geneva, these images remain alive and benefit the generations of today.


The concept of creating a foundation
After 12 years and with the success of this program, the question arose of the sustainability of this precious heritage, rich in emotions, which is managed to date in an artisanal way. The impressive number of images requires a more professional review of its storage and sequencing.
This unique audiovisual capital belongs to those who entrusted it to us to serve as a testimony of the past to future generations. This is the main reason that led us to consider creating the Foundation "Autrefois Genève”.

The creation of the Foundation is part of a voluntary approach to preserving the audiovisual heritage belonging to the history of Geneva and its surroundings.
Professionalized management of audiovisual data will allow information to be made available immediately for communication and event planning projects. It will thus help to bring to life and enhance Geneva's heritage.
 
The mission of the Fondation Autrefois Genève
The mission of the Fondation Autrefois Genève is to highlight Geneva's heritage. In order to do this, it acquires, retains, shares and makes available to the public and its partners all audiovisual and documentary media related to Geneva and its region.
The Foundation is aimed at an audience sensitive to Geneva's heritage who wishes to discover it, tell it and share it. It is also aimed at schools and academic circles for the provision of teaching materials. It is also a real information tool for the media, municipalities, businesses that want to know, take ownership and bring local heritage to life.
 
Its commitments:
• The acquisition, conservation, digitization, sequencing and enhancement of the audiovisual and documentary heritage.
• Production of educational programs and capsules using archive images and sounds.
• The provision of images on a digital platform and their use for animations or in the context of organizing events.
• The creation of a community of financial and participatory support in Autrefois Genève.
 
A Board of 3 members makes up the management of the Foundation and an administrative structure is in charge of coordinating all actions.

Since 2017
Activities :
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Contact : Laurent Seydoux - Director
> More informations
France

Fonds Audiovisuel de Recherche

Quai Louis Prunier - BP 41296
F-17000 La Rochelle
+33 5 46 34 92 78
Website

FAR was create in 1999 with the desire to collect, to protect and to value all the audiovisual documents of the region Poitou-Charentes. Strongly implanted on the territory and well known of the local actors, our association fills successfully its historic missions of collection, digitalization, indexation and valuation of the images, while developing its educational animations and other cultural projects.


Open to all the public, FAR (Audiovisual Fund of Research) is an association law 1901, recognized by general interest, livened up by volunteers' team (among which of numerous professionals of the image) and two employees, Emma Gardré, in charge of the development and the animation, and Stéphanie Auger, loaded with the administration.

FAR is not a service of archiving, but a collective of lovers and enthusiasts by the history, the creation and the images, livened up by the ambition to restore life of these heritage. The association works on a participative mode and of exchanges. The depositors and the professionals users are a strength helping in the treatment of the images and the equipment, and in the broadcasting of the memory and the values of FAR.

The FAR was established in 1999, with the support of the General Council of Charente-Maritime. It has for main purposes :

- Save and archive any audiovisual documents (essentially movies and photos) relative to the culture and the heritage
- Open the access of these documents to the widest public (private individuals, researchers, museums, cultural and educational institutions, diffusers)
- Promote the creation around archives and produce tools of collection and disclosure such as audiovisual subjects, exhibitions, projections and on-line publishing on the Internet.

Besides the digitalization, the protection and the disclosure of the audiovisual documents having an interest for the collective memory, the association works to the access of the young people and the populations stemming from popular circles, in the education in the image and in the film practices (coordination of the "Passeurs d'images", workshops with the "Balbu Ciné" and the MashUp table).

The association guarantees to his Members : the freedom of conscience; the principle of nondiscrimination; the equal access of the men and the women; the access of the young people to its governing bodies.

The association is managed by a Board of directors, elected by the General assembly for one year. At present, it consists of:
- President : Claude Guillot
- Treasurer : Frank Baudin
- Secretary : Brigitte Duprat

The other members are : Julien Brulé, François Gourmel, François Vivier, Françoise Mamolar, Gilles Springmann, Michèle Beauplet and Olivier Nick.
Number of volunteers en 2015 : 79.

Activities :
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Contact : Stéphanie Auger - Administratrice
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France

Forum des Images

2 rue du Cinéma
F-75001 Paris
+33 1 44 76 63 64
Website

Created in 1988 to compile an audiovisual memory bank of Paris, the Forum des Images has since celebrated cinema and moving pictures of all kinds: feature and animated films, documentaries, shorts, television series, computer films… through thematic film programs, film festivals or special events, and a collection of over 6,000 hours of filmed material.


The institution began by bringing together a collection of films about the city, shot as early as 1895, with the greatest possible variety of origins, genres and media.
Among the various films collections offered to the audience, le Forum des Images has one specifically dedicated to amateur and family films.
In 1989, a first amateur films collect campaign was launched. Hundreds of films were gathered for “Objectif amateur”, a TV broadcost hosted by Pierre Tchernia, passionate about cinema and President of the Forum des images during 20 years.
This film collection intended to historians, filmmakers and even to the general audience has not stopped growing and now gathers over 2800 films.
Family films, sometimes shot over several decades, include documentaries, often relating important or historical events, animated and fiction films.

For the time only 15% of the films can be consulted in our viewing room on individual screens, by one person or several, and some of them can even be viewed on our website. But still, an important valorization work needs to be done, but all of these films can be viewed on appointment.

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Contact : Magali Magne
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Italy

Gianmarco Torri

via Soperga 54
20127 Milan
+393396498156

Gianmarco Torri is an independent film curator.
His interests are focused on diary film and autobiographical cinema, found footage, amateur cinema and the creative re-use of home movies, essay film, low-budget/self-produced documentary. He curated programmes and retrospectives on documentary, experimental and non-fiction films in Italy and abroad.


In the field of home movies and amateur cinema, he was a promoter and co-founder of the Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia in Italy since 2003. Until 2014 he was in charge for the archive development projects, fund raising, collecting projects and presentations, seminars and workshops on the archive activities at Italian and International film festivals.
Since 2015 he is working as a development strategy consultant for Italian amateur film archives, at designing and managing collecting projects, valorisation activities and training courses.
Together with Karianne Fiorini, he is currently working at creating a network of Italian amateur film archives through the sharing of knowledges and methodologies, and through collaborative projects of valorisation of their collections, the first of which is the RE-FRAMING HOME MOVIES project.

He has published interviews, articles and essays on many different subjects and filmmakers such as Alberto Grifi, Ed Pincus, Ross McElwee, Direct Cinema, Italian independent documentary, amateur cinema and the re-use of home movies.

He is in charge for the audiovisual collections of the CTU - UNIVERSITY OF MILAN.
He is member of the Board of Directors of AVI - Associazione Videoteche e Mediateche Italiane and member of the Scientific Committee of the MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DEL NUOVO CINEMA in Pesaro, where he is also a co-curator of the sections SUPER8 and SATELLITE – Screenings for the future cinema.

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France

Gilles Ollivier

Rennes

Teacher, Associate researcher and member of the Scientific and Ethical Council of the Cinémathèque de Bretagne


Researcher in history.
Since 1987 he has been collaborating with the Cinémathèque de Bretagne, through published research and film conferences.
Defended a Diploma of Advanced Study in Contemporary History in 1990, Du regard à la mémoire. Essai sur l'histoire et la sociologie du cinéma d'amateur, de 1922 aux années soixante (Rennes 2 University, 1990).
Has published numerous articles on the history of amateur cinema and amateur films as sources for history, from the local and regional to the national level: 1895 (AFRHC); Archives (Institut Jean Vigo/ Cinémathèque de Toulouse); Atala. Cercle de réflexion universitaire du lycée Chateaubriand (Rennes); Balises (Bibliothèque publique d'information, Centre Pompidou); En Envor. Revue électronique d'histoire contemporaine en Bretagne ; Place Publique ; Presses Universitaires de Rennes ; Skol Vreizh...

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France

Giorgia Villa

F-75020 Paris

Film editor


Film editor

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Italy

Giulio Pedretti

Corso Casale 192
10132 Torino
+39 3202182965
Website

Graduated in History of Cinema (Turin University), Videographer specialized on documentaries production and commercial videos. Project manager of cultural initiatives, I collaborated with film festivals, theater companies and communication agencies for commercial events. Trainer in video and cinema with dozens of experiences from primary schools to post graduate courses and workshops. Founder of Superottimisti, home movies regional archive, active member of cultural and social associations.


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Since 2020
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États-Unis

Guillaume Boure

2001 Olympic Blvd apt 109, Santa Monica
90404 Los Angeles
+33630794699
Website

Building bridges between the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the alumni network at the French National Audiovisual Institute School


AMIA at Ina sup creates value and widens a community of current and former students, industry professionals, researchers, experts and enthusiasts in the field of audiovisual heritage collection, appraisal, preservation and access.

We enhance formal education by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and interaction among our members, the profession, and AMIA through social and intellectual activities. We introduce and integrate new memory workers into the field and engage them to participate in field trips, workshops, seminars, symposiums, lectures, programming screenings, and other forms of events and projects. We keep up to date with emerging professional activities, technologies, publication, research and ethics in the field of moving image and sound archiving.

We foster urgent cooperation, mutual understanding and collective wisdom in supporting theories, practices and objectives in the field of archives, libraries, museums, records and information professions, in an increasingly rapidly changing and interconnected world.

We support and develop mutual interest, cooperation and creativity with AMIA student chapters at other educational institutions, as well as other groups from within the INA sup framework, such as the INA sup alumni student association (l’ADIS), the International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA), the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), and similar associations, in order to forge links between students, former students and professionals.

We collaborate and partner with local and foreign organizations to promote analogue and digital preservation and to raise awareness and celebrate moving image and sound heritage.

Since 20/10/020
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Italy

Home Movies - Italian Amateur Film Archive

via Sant’Isaia 18
I-40123 Bologna
+39 051 339 72 43
Website

The Italian Amateur Film Archive was born in 2002 with the mission to preserve and harness the amateur and family film, a still hidden and inaccessible audiovisual heritage. The Archive was founded and is managed by the Home Movies Association, a research group involved in promoting and organizing the study, storage and enhancement of amateur and family film.


Italian Amateur Film Archive is the first Italian institution for the preservation and enhancement of the rich audiovisual amateur heritage, still unpublished for its main portion, coming almost exclusively from families and non-professional contexts, and until recently wrongly considered minority. Home Movies is today the only organization in Italy of study and collection of amatorial film materials throughout the nation, able to grant the preservation of the original audiovisual patrimony in appropriate rooms.

The archive collects and disseminates an hidden heritage, preventing dispersion and oblivion. This includes family films, but also documentaries and fiction films - often made by skilled amateur filmmakers -, works of experimental and independent filmmakers, scientific films and other materials. In most cases these films document the everyday live of people who visually record their holidays, trips, collective rituals, public events, work, landscape.
The audiovisual documentation, private and unpublished, from the Archive collection is therefore a huge and extraordinary representation of Italian history, a heritage that is increasingly published and disseminated through projects and initiatives. Numerous scholar researches had the Archive as subject and many film and art productions already used the images, in particular for the production of documentary films. From the archive materials Home Movies also produces, independently or in partnership, cross-media and audiovisual products, editions of films, documentaries, installations.
Since 2008 Home Movies is member of the European network INEDITS, while in 2011 the Italian Amateur Film Archive was declared by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (MiBACT) "significant archive of historical interest".

Since 09/10/2002
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Contact : Mirco Santi - Co-Founder
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France

Image'Est

Maison romaine - 2 rue de Nancy
F-88000 Épinal
+33329337834
Website

Image'Est is the association that brings together the actors of the image chain in the Grand Est region. In this capacity, it brings together and represents the interests of professionals from the fields of creation, production and broadcasting, higher education and research, film literacy, innovation and film heritage.


As part of its patrimonial work, Image'Est has undertaken to develop a project entitled "Memory of images", which consists of collecting, safeguarding and transmitting industrial heritage through collecting, digitizing and promoting amateur films.
The aim is to set up a resource center and to highlight industrial heritage in a European context by promoting amateur films that preserve the memory of cultural, social and economic life of our post-industrial societies.

Since 2009
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Contact : Guillaume Poulet - Director
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France

Institut Jean Vigo

Arsenal - 1 rue Jean Vielledent
F-66000 Perpignan
+33 4 68 34 09 39
Website

Pyrenees-Mediterranean Film Memory

“Don’t Throw Film Away” is the slogan launched by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) on the occasion of its 70th anniversary in 2008. The partnership forged in 2012 by La Cinémathèque de Toulouse and Institut Jean Vigo – both members of FIAF – in the interests of the film memory of the Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrenees and Aquitaine regions is fully in line with this perspective. Its purpose is above all to (re)discover films that individuals, companies and/or associations still have in their possession but which are often piled up in damp cellars or in overheated attics, in order to preserve them in the best conditions.


Pyrenees-Mediterranean Film Memory

Don’t Throw Film Away” is the slogan launched by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) on the occasion of its 70th anniversary in 2008. The partnership forged in 2012 by La Cinémathèque de Toulouse and Institut Jean Vigo – both members of FIAF – in the interests of the film memory of the Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrenees and Aquitaine regions is fully in line with this perspective. Its purpose is above all to (re)discover films that individuals, companies and/or associations still have in their possession but which are often piled up in damp cellars or in overheated attics, in order to preserve them in the best conditions.

In 2014, thanks to the support from the Euroregion, Filmoteca de Catalunya and Arxiu del So i de la Imatge of Majorca have joined this platform to improve it with outstanding audiovisual documents in the valorisation, through images, of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.

Films in the traditional formats can keep for a long time, provided they are subjected to the appropriate treatment; however, if they are not carefully treated and stored, the film surface is exposed to different kinds of damage (scratches, dust, mould…) that render them difficult or simply impossible to use. Film libraries have the technical resources and skills needed to save and preserve films in good conditions. The films thus recovered through a communication, awareness and long-term collection work are thoroughly cleaned, repaired and, in some cases, digitized.

The collaboration between these four archives now allows to draw attention to the historical links between the communities of Catalonia, Midi-Pyrénées, Languedoc-Roussillon and the Balearic Islands, and rediscover an image of the past of these four partner regions. The films, digitized and shared online, are indeed powerful witnesses to a transregional cultural reality, made visible and accessible to all.

This portal aims to improve every month with new discoveries and our work will move.

Since 2014
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Contact : Kees Bakker - Directeur
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France

Julie Guillaumot

F-75015 Paris

Archivist


After working for Ciclic on their amateur films collections in Centre-Val de Loire (France), Julie Guillaumot remained a member of INEDITS, on an individual membership. Her main interest is amateur film history, especially the period of World War II.

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Italy

Karianne Fiorini

via Centotrecento, 22
40126 Bologna
+39 3495384060

Karianne Fiorini is an independent film archivist and curator. Since 2003 she has worked on numerous different home movie projects and has been a frequent contributor to International meetings and symposia, including the AMIA Conference (2007, 2010, 2015, 2018) and the Home Movie Summit (2010).


She is currently running a national survey on home movie archives in Italy with the ICAR - Istituto Centrale per gli archivi (http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/storie-di-famiglia/), co-curating an Italian educational project called RE-FRAMING HOME MOVIES / RESIDENZE IN ARCHIVIO (2017) and RE-FRAMING HOME MOVIES / L’EREDITA’ RITROVATA (2018) (www.reframinghomemovies.it). She has collaborated with the Chicago Film Archives for the INTERNATIONAL MEDIA MIXER project (2017-2018). Since some years she is working with the German filmmaker Helga Fanderl on a “catalogue raisonné” of her work (first output of the project: http://www.helgafanderl.com), and has curated film programs for the MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DEL NUOVO CINEMA DI PESARO. She was one of the founders of the Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia (Bologna, IT), where she was manager of Film Collections and Cataloguing for twelve years between 2003 and 2015. Since 2018 she is part of the International Home Movie Day Committee of the Center for Home Movies.

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France

La Cinémathèque de Toulouse

69 rue du Taur – BP 88024
31080 Toulouse cedex 6
05 62 30 30 10
Website

The Toulouse Cinematheque was founded in 1964 by passionate cinema fans gathered around Raymond Borde and has been a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) since 1965. It is currently managed by Robert Guédiguian.


The Toulouse Cinematheque is one of the three most important French film archives and the second biggest cinema archive in France.
It is supported by the CNC (National Film Centre), the City of Toulouse, General and Regional Councils. It preserves more than 48 211 copies, more than 85 000 film posters (the most important film poster collection in France), 550 000 photographs, 72 000 pressbooks, 15 000 publications and has always carried out film preservation and promotion policies.

Since 1965
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Contact : Francesca Bozzano - Director of collections
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France

Laure Sainte-Rose (Atelier cinématographique Ad libitum)

21 rue Genevoise
38500 Voiron
+33 (0)4 76 07 32 89
Website

Film restorer, artistic & technical director.


Graduated in political science and ethnology, Laure Sainte-Rose specialized in the field of
film heritage thanks to a learning session at the French Film Archives (1995 - 1997) and
the professional programm Archimédia de 1997 to 2001. She was responsible for the
treatment of the artists' films and experimental films collection of the National Museum of
Modern Art - Pompidou Center for ten years. Since then, she has been developing a
technical and artistic work ranging from restoration to valorization of audiovisual archives
of national museums, public archives, private collections. She teaches in art schools,
universities (master Lyon II) and occasionally works with specialized film heritage
institutions. She is a member of Artizz since 2017, a group of french craftpersons.

Activities and skills: archives and collection management (restoration, backup and
digitisation)
Fields of intervention: amateur film and photography, analogue video tapes, digital media

Archive inventory: film, analogue video, digital, photographic plates
Documentation and cataloging of original elements
Data base management
Audiovisual collections expertise
Physical and chemical inspection reports
Recommendation in preventive conservation
Reconditioning film formats : 8, super8, 9.5, 16 and 35mm
Photochemical and digital restoration
Negative editing : 8, super8, 9.5, 16 and 35mm
Implementation of backup missions
Preparation of silver elements for digital transfer (films, videos, dvd, photographic plates)
Digitisation tracking

Since 1998
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Suisse

Lichtspiel / Cinémathèque de Berne

Sandrainstrasse 3
CH-3007 Berne
+41 31 381 15 05
Website

The Lichtspiel / cinémathèque Berne was founded in 2000 to collect and preserve anything related to the production and reproduction of moving images.


It is a unique cinematographic collection with an open cinema in the heart of the hall, an archive, a workshop and a storehouse, a mélange of cinema, museum, service station for cinematographic material and network for film aficionados.

Since Mai 2000
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Contact : David Landolf - Director
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FRANCE / LEBANON

Marie Termignon

5, rue de Charonne
75011 Paris
+33 6 10 63 60 33
Website


Iconographic research
Rights clearance
Archiving
Documentary treatment
Database management

Language : French - German - Arabic, Levantine (notions) - English

FILMOGRAPHY

- "East Med" by Sophie Nivelle-Cardinale (52', Les Films d'Ici, Arte, in production)
- Web series “Vos photos, notre histoire” (22×13′, Bonne Compagnie, France Télévisions, in production)
- Web series "Gymnastique" (42×5′, La Blogothèque, Arte, in production)
- "La Disparition" by Jean-Pierre Pozzi and Mathieu Sapin (90', Nolita Cinéma / XY Zèbre, 2021)
- "Toni Morrison et les fantômes de l’Amérique" by Claire Laborey (52′, Roche Productions, Arte, 2020)
- "Une langue pour renaître" by Ahlem Aussant-Leroy (Les Films d’Ici Méditerranée, 2017)
- "Ismyrna" by Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige (50′, Abbout Productions,Lebanon, 2016)

MUSEOGRAPHY

- Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar (XY Zèbre - Wilmotte & Associés, in production)
- World Expo 2020 Dubai, French Pavilion (La Manufacture du Patrimoine - COFREX, 2021)
- World Expo 2020 Dubai, Women Pavilion (Le Chaînon Manquant - Cartier, 2021)
- Oman Across Ages Museum, Nizwa, Oman (XY Zèbre - Mardi 8, 2020)

THEATER

- "Brazza-Ouidah-Saint Denis" by Alice Carré (EIA! Cie, 2021-22)

EDITION

- Fairmont Hotels (Le Chaînon manquant, 2021)

COLORIZATION (Composite Films)

- "Histoires d'une nation - Amour" (Point du Jour, France 2, 2021)
- "La France de l'après-guerre - Sortir de la guerre (1944-1954)" by Mickaël Gamrasni (Nilaya Productions, France 2, 2021)
- "The Road to Victory in Color" (World Media Rights, Netflix, 2021)
- "World War II Battles in Color" (GTV Productions, Smithsonian US, 2021)
- "Gainsbourg toute une vie" by Stéphane Benhamou and Sylvain Bergère (Siècle Productions, 2021)
- "Trenet, l'enchanteur" by Philippe Kohly (Gédéon Programmes, France 3, 2021)
- "Hitler Staline, l'histoire secrète" by Michaël Prazan (Siècle Productions, 2021)
- "Australia in Color", season 2 (Stranger Than Fiction Films, SBS TV, 2020)
- "L'histoire des Jeux" by Jean-Christophe Rosé (Kuiv Productions, 2020)
- "L'exode" by Emmanuelle Nobécourt (Cinétévé, France 3, 2020)
- "La folle aventure de Louis de Funès" by Lucie Cariès (Les Bons Clients, 2020)
- "La saga de nos montagnes, les Alpes" by Frédéric Brunnquell (Morgane Production, France 2, 2020)
- "Australia in Colour", season 1 (Stranger Than Fiction Films/Arrow Media, SBS TV, 2020)
- "39-45, Les animaux dans la guerre" by Jean-Christophe Rosé (Kuiv Productions, France 3, 2019)
- "Britain in Colour" (Arrow Media, Smithsonian Channel, 2019)
- "America in Colour" (Arrow International Media, Smithsonian Channel, 2019)
- "Greatest Events of WWII in Colour" (Head Gear Films, Netflix/MyCanal, 2019)
- “Miss Dior Love N’Roses”, Dior, exhibition in Shanghai and Tokyo, 2019
- “Christian Dior, Designer of dreams”, Dior, exhibition in London, 2019

DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

- M Stories – Corporate client (DAM-Keepeek, 2020-2021)
- IRSN-Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (DAM-Orphea, 2020)
- Cinematheque Beirut (Metropolis Art Cinema Association, Beirut, Lebanon, 2016-2018)
- Archive Valley (2016)
- Docfilmdepot (Ardèche Images, 2016)

ARCHIVIST

- Metropolis Art Cinema Association, Beirut, Lebanon (2015-2018)
- Cinéma du Réel - International Documentary Film Festival (2014)
- Ciné-Tamaris, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy archives (2012-2013)
- Les Films de Mon Oncle, Jacques Tati film catalogue (2013)

Since 2020
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Suisse

Médiathèque Valais-Martigny

Avenue de la Gare 15
1920 Martigny
+41 27 607 15 40
Website

La Médiathèque Valais - Martigny est chargée de la conservation des films et images en mouvement tournés en Valais ou par des Valaisans.


Elle rassemble toutes les œuvres commerciales ou non, réalisées par des professionnels ou des amateurs. Les premiers documents remontent au début du XXe siècle. Plus de 350 fonds constituent la collection. Ils comprennent environ 10’000 documents sur tout type de supports, professionnels et amateurs: films 8mm, 9,5mm, 16mm, 35mm, Super 8...; vidéos analogiques ou numériques.

Un effort particulier a été aussi mené en faveur de la conservation des films de famille. Quelques dépôts extraordinaires apportent un éclairage nouveau sur la vie quotidienne du passé.

Les documents numérisés et catalogués sont accessibles en ligne via www.mediatheque.ch ou http://archives.memovs.ch/

Since 1987
Online collection: http://archives.memovs.ch/
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Contact : Sylvie Delèze - Directrice
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Czech Republic

Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive

Malešická 14
CZR-130 00 Prague
+420 778 522 723
Website

National Film Archive (Národní filmový archiv), established in 1943, is one of the oldest film heritage institutions in the World. Its collections are large, ranging from Czech fiction, non-fiction and animated films, to posters, photographs, screenplays, paper documentation. The collection of amateur films and home movies was founded in 2000.


This collection has three main parts – amateur feature, animated and documentary films, including home movies – and contains footage of various gauges (9,5 mm, 16 mm, 8 mm, Super 8 mm, 35 mm), which were created in the period from 1920s to 1990s. Currently, internal database includes 900 amateur films, which are important source of informations about specific area of Czech cinema produced in parallel with products of contemporary film industry. Besides preservation of this kind material National Film Archive focuses on its presentation at conferences (Orphan Film Symposium, 2014) and film festivals (International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava, 2015). Czech archive is member of association Inedits for a many years.

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Contact : Jiri Hornicek - curator of film collection
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Greece

Nikos Mitrogiannopoulos

Adramytiou 62, str.Athens
16232 Byron-Athens
201-7624652, 6978408308
Website


The non profit company "of the Anonymous - Amateur Audiovisual Material Archive’’ was founded in Athens in 2002. It's goals are the preservation, publicizing and study of greek amateur cinema. At this moment the company owns amateur films of a duration of more than 150 hours, which is being methodically digitized and archived. A complete catalogue will be published at the site of the company as soon as possible as well as online viewable clips. The non profit company "of the anonymous” has been a member of the European Association Inedits (the only member in Greece and the Balkans) and has taken part in almost all the conventions that have taken place after 2000. It also often organizes, in association with Ilioupoli Cinema Club, public screenings of the archived material. The company is based in Vyronas in Athens and at the moment you can contact us via e-mail. Your meeting or visiting us is most welcome; however, it is possible only after an appointment. The President is Nikos Mitrogianopoulos, the Vice-President is Aris Vidalis and the Secretary is Argyro Moustaki.

Since 2002
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France

Nives Sartori (Association Prise 2)

Association Prise 2 - 4 rue Cluvier bât. C.
F-06000 Nice
Website

Since 2018, the association has been managing the Batritchevitch Collection, which consists mainly of amateur 8 mm and super 8 films shot all over the world, including behind-the-scenes footage from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.


These films were shot and edited by Dimitri Batritchevitch. Dimitri, from Nice and attached to the district of Las Planas, was a documentary filmmaker, in North and South America and in Australia, a chief grip, notably at the Studios de la Victorine, and a projectionist in several theatres in the Alpes-Maritimes.

Since 2016
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France

Normandie Images

115 boulevard de l’Europe
F-76100 Rouen
+33 2 35 70 20 21
Website

Normandie Image's Audio-visual Memory has for aim to save and exhib film archives and audio-visual documents of professional's and amateur's heritage, having as thematic or background the Normandie.


Initiated by the IRIS (Institut Régional de l'Image et du Son) in 1986, it has been working since that date to find and make discover, in particular through films qualified as Inédits (not originally intended for distribution in professional circuits of the audiovisual) a collective memory through these documents tracing the events of local life (amateur filmmakers being for a long time the only providers of regional images before the existence of television channels).

Each film is the subject of documentary files which, entered in this database, allow by the coupled interrogation - keywords and sections - to quickly access a choice of targeted documents.
In concrete terms, more than 3,800 film rolls of different formats (9.5mm, 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm) are the subject of deposit contracts, and are kept on site in premises specific to their backup. More than 220 depositors: organizations, schools, professionals but also individuals entrusted us with their documents. This collection is mainly for films focusing on the collective memory of work, rural and urban development, or simply on everyday life.

The technical means:
- a conservation room (to the standards of the Service des Archives du Film de Bois d'Arcy);
- A viewing room in the various media for expertise (all film and video formats);
- A scanning station in HD;
- an assembly room
- a database
Digitization:
- in order to facilitate access to the preserved documents, a digitisation plan for all amateur films deposited at Normandie Images is in progress.
In June 2019, the Agence régionale Normandie Images and the Etablissement public de coopération culturelle (EPCC), La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, launched the Mémoire normande website: https://www.memoirenormande.fr/. This site includes heritage funds, unpublished films (over 3,000) and photographs (over 25,000), collected, documented and digitized by the two regional structures.

The Normandy Memory Common Fund offers the general public the opportunity to freely view images filmed or photographed by Norman amateurs between 1920 and 1980. Searchable by keywords, themes and geolocation, still and animated images offer another perspective on Normandy. Indeed, these online archives allow Internet users an ethnographic, historical, cultural and social appropriation of Normandy from the immediate First World War (launch in 1922 of the 9.5 mm Pathé-Baby camera) to the present time.

Actors of higher education and research, image education, tourism and especially general public consult thousands each month this tool of cultural democratization of the filmic and photographic heritage amateurs regional (since the portal opened in June 2019: nearly 50,000 different visitors, 87,000 visits for more than 1.5 million page views).
Currently, there are more than 3500 films available online

Normandie Images is supported by the Normandy Region and the Ministry of Culture and Communication for its missions in favor of the image.

Online collection: https://www.memoirenormande.fr/
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  • Numérisation
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Contact : Agnès Deleforge - Cinematographic and audiovisual memory department manager
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Switzerland

Rolf Leuenberger

via Balgine 6
CH-6997 Sessa
+41 91 945 00 00
Website

Amateur filmmaker, collector and curator


Amateur filmmaker since the early seventies. Winner of several awards on a national and international level. In 1984, he founded the CiAC (Cineamatori Ceresio Lugano Club), of which he was the president for 18 years. In 2010, he was the director of the 75th National Film and Video Festival in Spiez. For several years he was part of the national committee "swiss.movie" and for six years he was a member of UNICA - Union Internationale du Cinéma. He is currently working on a museum in Italian Switzerland about amateur filmmaking.

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United Kingdom

Ryan Shand

Ravensbourne University London, 6 Penrose Way, Greenwich Peninsula
SE10 0EW London
Website

Film researcher


Dr Ryan Shand is Research Fellow at Ravensbourne University London. He completed his PhD, titled ‘Amateur Cinema: History, Theory, and Genre (1930-80)’, at the University of Glasgow. Ryan was a postdoctoral researcher on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded projects, ‘Mapping the City in Film: A Geohistorical Analysis’ at the University of Liverpool, as well as ‘Children and Amateur Media in Scotland’ at the University of Glasgow. He contributed chapters to the anthologies Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place (2014), Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs (2018), and British Art Cinema: Creativity, Experimentation and Innovation (2019). His article publications have appeared in The Moving Image, Leisure Studies, and the International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen. Ryan is also the co-editor of Small-Gauge Storytelling: Discovering the Amateur Fiction Film (2013).

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Tim van der Heijden

Researcher


Tim van der Heijden is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the Open University of the Netherlands. He obtained a PhD degree in media history from Maastricht University. His dissertation “Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies (1895-2005)” investigates the relation between changing media technologies (film, video, digital media) and home movie practices from a longue durée perspective. Between 2017 and 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) of the University of Luxembourg. He is a board member of the Dutch Foundation of Amateur Film ("Stichting Amateurfilm").

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