Report Home Movie Day 2013
Last Saturday, 19th October it was International Home Movie Day, the yearly event celebrating amateur film. Like in the previous years, various amateur films and family films were screened in many cities around the world, among which Amsterdam (EYE Film…
Home Movie Day – Huis van Alijn (Belgium)
On Saturday 19th October, the 11th edition of the International Home Movie Day takes place. In Ghent (Belgium), the museum of everyday life Huis van Alijn organizes a special day around home movies. This year’s theme: creative (re)use of the…
Exhibition Péter Forgács – Looming Fire
Exhibition: Péter Forgács – Looming Fire. Stories from the Netherlands East Indies (1900-1940) From 5 October to 1 December 2013 EYE’s main exhibition space will be exclusively devoted to Looming Fire, the latest work by filmmaker and artist Péter Forgács. …
Association INEDITS conference
“Association INEDITS Amateur Film/Video in Europe”, the European association which promotes the collecting, archiving, researching and broadcasting of amateur films, presents a three-day conference from 23-25 October in Paris. The theme of the 23rd meeting is: “Women and amateur-films”. For…
Home Movie Day 2013
On Saturday 19th October EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam presents the Home Movie Day 2013, a yearly international event celebrating the amateur film. This year’s theme is: ‘Live and work abroad / Dutch in foreign’. For more information about the…
Janek Turkowski at Noorderzon 2013
Live performance on Dutch amateur cineclub at Groninger performing arts festival Noorderzon by Polish artist Janek Turkowski. For more information, see: http://www.noorderzon.nl/programma/programma-items/janek-turkowski-en-stichting-gava
Upcoming conference: Children and Nontheatrical Media
Conference organized by University of Glasgow for archivists, academics and filmmakers on the theme of ‘Children and non-theatrical media: from film to video‘. The conference committee, led by Professor Karen Lury (School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow),…
Workshop Bonn: ‘How to keep your audio-visual memories safe’
On May 2-3 in Bonn 2013, a workshop on the question “How to keep your audiovisuaol memories safe?” was organized in the Institut für Landeskunde und Regionalgeschichte, Bonn. The workshop explored different perspectives offered by film archivist, scholars and film makers…
Exhibition in the making: MARBLE-workshops
Although it will take some years before the planned exhibitions in the Limburgs Museum (Venlo) and theHuis van Alijn (Ghent) will be realized, its preparations have already begun. Last weeks, each of the two participating museums hosted and co-organized a…
Interview: Andreas Fickers
Home movies project coordinator Prof. dr. Andreas Fickers was interviewed on the societal impact of our NWO-research project “Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices. The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies”. Watch the video: For more information about the Faculty of…
