Het Limburgs Museum, de Limburgse Organisatie van Audiovisuele Amateurs (LOVA) en het Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg organiseren op zondag 9 december 2012 in het Limburgs Museum in Venlo de eerste editie van het tweejaarlijkse Filmfestival Tijdsbeeld. Het thema van het…
For some years, the library of Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG) holds an extensive film archive. It preserves around 2800 films from the year of 1907, particularly 16mm reels, but also ones on 8mm and 35mm. Besides films, the archive also stores…
On Saturday the 20th October the worldwide annual Home Movie Day took place. In the Netherlands the two mayor players in audio-visual archiving, the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (Beeld & Geluid) and the EYE Film Institute Netherlands, organised their respective Home Movie…
On Friday September 28th the annual ‘Amateur Film Day’ takes place during the Netherlands Film Festival. This year’s theme: ‘congratulations’. The theme of ‘Congratulations’ allows the Amateur Film Day to celebrate several anniversaries and milestones in the field of amateur film, among…
Between 20-25th of August, 2012 a Summer School on ‘The Everyday Appropriation of Technology” is organized by Maastricht University and TU Darmstadt. Location: Waldemar Peterson House in Riezlern, Austria. “The present diffusion of so-called smart phones illustrates the main topic of the…
“During performing arts festival Noorderzon (Groningen, The Netherland) Polish performer Janek Turkowski offered a surprisingly small and intimate filmic refuge from the predominantly big and spectacular main programme. His Margarete evokes a time long gone, on the other side of…
From June 25th-29th, 2012 the RMeS Summer School took place at Utrecht of Groningen. Theme: “Media in transition“. “Traditionally, research in the Humanities focuses on textual artifacts. Media scholars, whether they come from historical, cultural, literary, film or journalism studies,…
From 21. June – 23. June, 2012 the Network of European Cinema Studies (NECS) conference took place in Lisbon, hosted by the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra. This year’s theme: “Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory”….
In a tribute by the Prince of Wales to his mother, never-before-seen footage of the British Royal family was disclosed. The footage, including home movies of and by the Queen herself, has been used for a BBC documentary celebrating Queen…
On April 16th, 2012 the Dutch filmmaker Frans Hofmeester uploaded his time-lapse clips in which he portrays his children Lotte (12) and Vince (9) in their growing up process. These films, which may also be labeled ‘time-lapse home movies’, immediately…
