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Together with Susan Aasman I was interviewed about Home Movie Day and our research on the cultural and historical value of home movies and amateur film and video for the Dutch newspaper Trouw. The newspaper article (written in Dutch) is called…

Home Movie Day at Eye Filmmuseum is an international tribute to the amateur film. This year, Home Movie Day highlights the history of amateur film which spans more than 100 years: from film strips to selfies. How has the making and…

Home movie project members Susan Aasman, Andreas Fickers and Joseph Wachelder have edited the book Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs, published by Bloomsbury Academics. About Materializing Memories “A multitude of devices and technological tools now exist to make, share, and store memories and…

Last week, I was interviewed by journalist Clemens Panagl for the Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten about the current ‘retor-trend’, in which Vinyl, cassette tapes, photo filter-apps with ‘nostalgic’ 1970s look have become increasingly popular. You can read the interview (in German) here: https://www.sn.at/kultur/allgemein/ein-trend-spult-die-zeit-zurueck-28301230

Project members Tim van der Heijden and Tom Slootweg recently published a blog post on the EUscreen blog. In the post, they explore how their recently finished dissertations provide a complementary perspective on studying and historicizing home movies as family memory…

Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies, 1895–2005 Date: Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00h Venue: Aula of Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6, Maastricht Promoters: Prof.dr. Maaike Meijer, Prof.dr. Andreas Fickers, Dr. Jo Wachelder On Thursday 18…

Today, 31 July 2017, I have officially submitted my PhD dissertation! My dissertation is entitled Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies, 1895-2005. It is one of the outcomes of the NWO-funded research project “Changing Platforms of…

My colleagues Susan Aasman and Tom Slootweg (University of Groningen) edited a special ‘video dossier’ for TMG—Journal for Media History. In the editorial to the video dossier, ‘A very short video history,’ the authors invite Dutch media historians to delve…