Exploring New Methodologies for Media Research, Teaching, and Curating How can we challenge the exclusively textual approaches to media history and opt for a more experimental and hands-on approach to cultural heritage? The University of Groningen’s Film Archive and the…
Call for proposals: We currently witness a process of rapid transition of mediated memory practices. Digital media platforms like YouTube enable the distribution of private audiovisual memories that differ radically from past amateur practices and media uses. The conference aims…
Vorig jaar bezocht het bestuur van Stichting Amateurfilm de filmmaker en -verzamelaar IJsbrand Rogge (1929) in zijn huis te Amsterdam, waar hij ons een rondleiding gaf langs zijn indrukwekkende collectie smalfilmapparatuur. De collectie bevat enkele zeer zeldzame camera’s en projectoren…
De documentaire van Barbara den Uyl over Super-8 filmmaker Jaap Pieters getiteld Het Universum van Jaap Pieters is nu te zien in de bioscopen! Jaap Pieters fotografeert en filmt graag ’doodgewone’ straattaferelen, waarin hij iets bijzonders ziet: zwervers, bedelaars, dronkenlappen. Met…
Op het Amateurfilm Platform zijn vijf winnende Home Movie Day film te bewonderen. De films zijn afkomstig uit de collectie van het EYE Film Institute. Het betreft de volgende films: De Bijlmer (Marlio da Silva, jaren 1990) Een poëtische amateurfilm…
One of Vivian Maier’s 8mm films recorded in Chicago. The footage was used recently in the documentary Finding Vivian Maier (2014).
On November 21-22nd, the international workshop on “Amateurs and/as experts” was held at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Maastricht University. Bringing together different approaches to users and different types of users in media and technology studies, the workshop…
Upcoming Thursday 13th November (17.00-18.30) the Amsterdam based debate center SPUI25 organized a special debate on amateur film, in cooperation with the Institute for Sound & Vision. Dr. Susan Aasman, post-doctoral researcher in the home movies research project, will speak about…
To explore the notion of “user generation”, our research project was kindly offered a platform to share our thoughts with scholars working with the concept of “media generation”. Within the context of the DFG-funded research program Mediatisierte Welten / Mediatized…
On Saturday 18th October 2014, the world is celebrating the 12th annual Home Movie Day. The event, organized for the first time in 2002, takes place in The United States, Japan, Argentina, and many more countries. Also in Amsterdam, the EYE Film…
