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Home Made Visible
Home Made Visible is a nationwide archival project by the Regent Park Film Festival that highlights the histories of Indigenous, Black and People of Colour (IBPOC). The Project has digitized and archived materials for IBPOC communities across Canada for free. The digital materials here represent a percentage of the total collection hosted at York University Libraries.
More informations - BelgiumBelgium
The International Institute for the Conservation, Archiving and Distribution of Other People's Memories (IICADOM)
The International Institute for the Conservation, Archiving and Distribution of Other People’s Memories (IICADOM) is a ongoing project by artist Jasper Rigole. The IICADOM archive consists of more than 1000 orphaned home movies (or 7000 film fragments) sourced from garage sales and flea markets.
More informations - United StatesUnited States
South Side Home Movie Project
SSHMP’s Digital Archive is a globally accessible online portal and searchable catalog of the entire collection of over 700 digitized home movies shot by residents of Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods from 1929-1982.
More informationsThe project brings materials that are typically kept in private collections into public light and discussion. Unique in its focus on home movies from this region, SSHMP aims to build an alternative, accessible visual record, filling gaps in existing written and visual histories, and ensuring that the diverse experiences and perspectives of South Siders will be available to larger audiences and to future generations.
Today, SSHMP presents a uniquely successful model for encouraging local residents to recognize the value of their personal archives, to preserve original film prints in optimal conditions, and to digitize home movies for public access, creative projects and scholarly research. Its film vault currently houses over 1000 film reels (8mm, Super 8, 16mm) from 40 South Side families, and its digital archive has expanded to over 30 terabytes of data. The Project offers a robust line-up of public programs that invite students, neighbors, artists and partner organizations to explore and activate the archive in imaginative new ways.
In addition to the incredible support the project has received from the community, SSHMP’s work has also been recognized by national film organizations. In 2019, SSHMP received the Advocacy Award from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) for raising public consciousness about the importance of archival work and access to media archives.
Language : EnglishOnline since : 2005 - ItalyItaly
Memoryscapes
Memoryscapes is the first platform dedicated to the rediscovery of Italy’s private heritage in a small gauge format. Memoryscapes is created with the aim of making accessible part of the archive materials preserved and digitized by Home Movies: a sort of online archive in progress annually updated with new thematic series or curatorial paths.
More informationsThrough a simple and immediate navigation based on a research by years, themes, places, formats and authors you will be able to explore the world of home movies and amateur films of the last century. With Memoryscapes you will be able to capture the transformation of the Italian landscape, social changes, customs and daily life from the 1920s to the 1980s: from the War to the happy days of Liberation, from the economic boom to the first mention of women’s emancipation, from protests to demonstrations. A mosaic of portraits and lives through the lens of amateur filmmakers.
Memoryscapes is the result of a long work of research, selection, description, digitization and video editing on Super 8, 8mm, 16mm and 9,5mm films shot during the 1920s and the 1980s, and preserved by Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia and other archives. An immense and hidden heritage, now accessible to anyone from a fixed or mobile location: researchers, school and university teachers, filmmakers and people who simply want to immerse themselves in the images and landscapes of memory.
Language : Italian and English - RomaniaRomania
Muzeul cineastului amator
The Amateur Filmmaker’s Museum is a private initiative that aims to research and bring to public attention the amateur filmmaking movement in Romania. The main tasks of the museum are the collection of equipment used by cineamateurs (film cameras, projection equipment, viewers, splicers, photochemical film) and of items related to the film industry and film culture (film posters, film stills, pictures of actors, film programs) and facilitating public access to the exhibitions.
More informationsThe digitized films are posted free of charge and in their entirety on the museum’s Youtube channel and Facebook page.
Language : RomanianOnline since : 2017 - FranceFrance
Mémoire - amateur archival images in Centre-Loire Valley (France)
“Mémoire, les images d’archives en région Centre” is a website created in 2010, which offers free and open online access to several thousand amateur films, shot mainly across the six departments of the Centre-Val de Loire region and covering the period from the 1920s to the present day. This project aims to participate in constituting and keeping alive a collective memory around the history of the region and its inhabitants, through editorial animation work on this exceptional collection and by encouraging the active participation of subscribed internet users. This platform also aims to encourage the creation of new works by professionals, and to facilitate the broadcasting of programs by associations and institutions.
More informationsIn order to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Mémoire, the Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire Agency has announced in 2020 the reshaping of the website, which would help it consolidate its public service mission, improve the general public’s access to culture, shed light on all forms of archive-based creation and help all associations or professionals in the field. After 10 years, it was necessary to rethink the ergonomics of the site, innovate towards new functionalities, simplify navigation and the participation of Internet users and ameliorate viewing conditions.
In addition, support and commitment to image professionals is a strong focus of Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire’s policy. The memoire.ciclic.fr website is an additional tool for producers, directors, researchers, and documentarians who work daily with the Ciclic agency.
The site Mémoire, images du passé, acteurs du présent (Mémoire, images of the past, actors of the present), offers you the opportunity to:
– View and share thousands of films in free access: with over 13,500 films, Mémoire is an inexhaustible resource for learning about history and restoring this common good to all.
– Explore creations from yesterday and today made from archives and imagination: amateur films inspire new stories. Fiction, documentaries, music videos, and humorous clips are all new and inventive works to discover!
– Learn, understand and dream with our Magazine: hundreds of articles written by the Ciclic teams or with the participation of specialists and historians, they allow you to understand in more depth certain aspects of amateur cinema, filmed events and the history of the region and beyond.
– Create and distribute content from archives in the Pro Space: Ciclic guides you step by step to create projects, select films and download your extracts in one click!
Language : FrenchOnline since : 2010 - United KingdomUnited Kingdom
East Anglian Film Archive
View over 200 hours of film for free from the East Anglian Film Archive. Explore the collection online by browsing, searching, or through the themed highlights …
More informationsThe East Anglian Film Archive, the first Regional Film Archive in England, was established in 1976 as an educational resource for the future by its visionary first Director, David Cleveland, who ran it until his retirement in 2004. Since 1984 the Archive has been owned and operated by the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UEA), as a not for profit research and public access resource. The collection comprises about 12 000 hours of film and up to 30 000 hours of videotape. The content mainly relates to the East of England region (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk). It also includes collections of national and international scope.
200 hours of film is available online. Films can be searched by places, dates, genres, people and subjects.
The website if free, with no registration required.
Language : EnglishOnline since : 2011 - FranceFrance
Cinémathèque de Bretagne
The Cinémathèque de Bretagne provides access to a large collection of amateur films on its website.
More informationsEach month, the cinémathèque highlights the “video of the month”. The database is open. You have access to more than 3 000 descriptive entries and 2 000 amateur and professional films.
Films can be searched by full-text queries or by key word. It is also possible to combine a lot of others fields.
The website is free, but a registration is needed.
Language : FrenchOnline since : 2005 - FranceFrance
Cinearchives.org
Since 2004, the association Ciné-Archive collects amateur films made by French activists and communist sympathizers. It provides access to one hundred amateur films online.
More informationsThese films reflect the life and commitments of communist activists, but also more broadly leftist sympathizers who filmed the world of work, social struggles, militant activity, political and historical events…
Thanks to a special section, the association has chosen to highlight its amateur films collection.
These documents are just a small part of the collections. Ciné-Archives is in charge of audiovisual archives of the French Communist Party and the labor movement. In total, more than 700 films are available online.
Language : French - United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Britain on film
Since 2015, the British Film Institute (BFI) launched « Britain on film » in collaboration with 15 national and regional archives in United Kingdom to provide free access to thousands of films, mainly through a map. pour permettre au grand public de découvrir des films amateurs tournés en Grande-Bretagne à travers une recherche cartographique.
More informationsFilms can be searched on a map, then by period and subject. Each document is introduced by a short text to give details about its origins. The BFI announces thousands of films available.
This project is a collaboration between national and regional archives in Great Britain : the British Film Institute, the Imperial War Museum, the East Anglian Film Archive and many regional archives (see the list here). Several regional archives provides also their own platform.
Britain on film is free and need no registration.
Language : EnglishOnline since : 2015 - FranceFrance
ArchivesEnLigne.fr - they filmed the region of Upper Normandy...
The Pôle Image Haute-Normandie offers to discover more than 2 000 amateur films online, which have been collected since 1986.
More informationsThe navigation is very clear. Films can be searched by decades, by themes, by location on a map or by full-text across all of the field. If you have a look on the French version, the website provides access to the whole database (“base documentaire”). Finally, you are also invited to read different short portraits of amateur filmmakers.
The website if free, with no registration required.
The website is available in French and in English.
Language : French and EnglishOnline since : 2012Editor : Pôle Image Haute-Normandie / Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART) - FranceFrance
Archivalp - audiovisual heritage of the Alps
Since 2011, the Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain (France) and the Médiathèque Valais-Martigny (Switzerland) are associated in order to provide access online to many amateur films from their collections.
More informationsThe website Archivalp is only available in French.
Language : FrenchOnline since : 2010Editor : Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l'Ain – Médiathèque Valais-Martigny / European project INTERREG IV France Switzerland 2009-2013 - NetherlandsNetherlands
Amateurfilm Platform
The Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision provides access on line to more than 4 500 amateur films on “Amateur Film Platform”.
More informationsSince february 2013, this platform provides access to films and videos from the collection of the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision, and from several dutch collections, for example the city and regional archives of Rotterdam and Groningen. Films and videos can be searched by location, film gauge, period, subject, archive, and also by the name of each filmmaker.
Language : DutchOnline since : 2013
