Conferences

Once a year, Eye is the venue for an international conference attended by film scholars, archivists, curators and restorers. The conferences are organized in collaboration with national and international partners from both the academic world and the field of film heritage.

Still from La peine du talion (1906).

still Uit het rijk der kristallen (J.C. Mol, NL 1927)

Eye International Conference 2025

25 through 28 May 2025, Eye Filmmuseum, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht, in collaboration with Colour in Film (Colour Group GB & HTW Berlin), will present the 10th Eye International Conference, this time under the topic ‘The Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, and Archives’.

More information

still Uit het rijk der kristallen (J.C. Mol, NL 1927)

Eye International Conference 2025

25 through 28 May 2025, the 10th Eye International Conference will take place in Eye Filmmuseum.

In a black and white film strip, a table is pictured with a black dog standing on top of it. On a chair next to the table, a white cat sits looking straight at the camera.

Eye International Conference 2024

26 through 29 May 2024, the 9th Eye International Conference will take place in Eye Filmmuseum.

On a lit-up background, a gloved hand moves a small magnifying glass across an analogue film strip which features the number eight on a pink background (campaign image Eye International Conference 2023)

Eye International Conference 2023

Eye Filmmuseum and the University of Amsterdam present the 8th Eye International Conference from 4 through 7 June.

Still uit REEL UNREEL (2011) van Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs - REEL UNREEL (2011)

Eye International Conference 2022

Eye Filmmuseum and partners present the 7th Eye International Conference on ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices’.

Eye International Conference 2021

Eye presents two online masterclasses looking back and ahead at the previous (cancelled due to Covid-19) and upcoming Eye International Conference.

Eye International Conference 2020

The annual Eye International Conference explores contemporary archival and academic debates, and in 2020 hosts the biennial Orphan Film Symposium.

still from Les six soeurs Dainef (unknown, FR 1902)

still Les six soeurs Dainef (FR 1902)

Eye International Conference 2019

The theme of the Eye International Conference 2019 is Sisters, taken both literally and figuratively within a wide range of theoretical and historical angles.

Eye International Conference 2018

How can audio-visual collections be mobilized for the common good? The Eye International Conference 2018 will explore answers to these and other questions.

Eye International Conference 2017

in 2017, the conference will host for two days a special 40th edition of the technical symposium The Reel Thing.

Eye International Conference 2016

On March 11, the book Exposing the Film Apparatus – The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory will be presented during an international seminar at Eye.

2015: The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema

This conference will celebrate this milestone anniversary by providing a new forum to explore contemporary archival and academic debates around colour in the silent era.

2014: Orphan Film Symposium 9

In 2014, Eye partnered with New York University and the University of Amsterdam to organize the first Orphan Film Symposium in Europe. This biennale was devoted to orphan works.

Exposing the Film Apparatus

In 2016, Eye hosted a symposium to present the book Exposing the Film Apparatus – The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory.

Orphan Film Symposium 9

In 2014, Eye partnered with New York University and the University of Amsterdam to organise the first Orphan Film Symposium in Europe. This biennale was devoted to orphan works.

Contact

If you have any questions or want further information about the conferences, please contact Eye Academic: conference@eyefilm.nl

Conferences

Eye International Conference 2025

Eye International Conference