The 2022 edition will focus on the imbalance or current misrepresentation of global audiovisual heritage holdings, looking in particular at the alarming scarcity of audiovisual heritage from the Global South in the digital space.* We will provide speakers and participants a platform to encourage knowledge exchange between scholars and archivists from different parts of the world, and different archival traditions. The conference offers a space to consider the impact of geographical location, the availability of resources, technical and digital gaps, and different audiovisual traditions. We will discuss archival challenges and think together about new models for collaboration.
The goal of the conference is to broaden the knowledge and connections within the global archival community, leading to new insights on the status of film heritage and archiving in different parts of the world.
Eye International Conference 2022
Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices
29 — 31 May 2022
The annual Eye International Conference is an opportunity for scholars, archivists, curators, researchers, filmmakers, students, artists, and film enthusiasts from across the world to gather and explore contemporary professional and academic issues affecting audiovisual heritage today.
Eye Filmmuseum, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will present the 7th Eye International Conference on ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices’.
Schedule
The Eye International Conference 2022 will take place in Amsterdam from Sunday, 29 to Tuesday, 31st May 2022. Please note that the official opening of the Eye International Conference will take place on Saturday 28th May at 19:00 before the screening of Vrouwen van Suriname (Oema foe Sranan, 1978). Celebratory opening drinks will take place after that screening at 21:30.
Participants are also invited to two annual side events:
- Meet the Archive, a public program highlighting recent projects with the Eye Collection, on Saturday, 28th May.
- Open House at the Eye Collection Centre, a program of guided tours, presentations, demonstrations, and screenings, on Wednesday 1st June.
Conference program
Take a look at the program outline for the Eye International Conference 2022, or download the conference booklet.
Open conference bookletTicketing
This year, we offer a hybrid conference format to accommodate everyone. Please note that all presenters must register for the conference. There is a different registration fee for on-site and virtual participants. Unfortunately, it is not possible to return purchased tickets.
Passe-partouts
On-site Regular Conference Passe-partout (3 days): 100 euro
On-site Student Conference Passe-partout (3 days): 50 euro
Virtual Conference Passe-partout (3 days): 25 euro
Day tickets
On-site Regular Conference Ticket (1 day): 50 euro
On-site Student Conference Ticket (1 day): 25 euro
Virtual conference
Via the virtual conference platform, you can attend the day sessions and watch pre-recorded poster presentations in the Poster Room. After the conference, both on-site and online attendees will be able to watch the recordings on-demand until Monday, 6th June. Please note that we will not stream or record the evening screenings but some films are available on the Eye Film Player.
Evening screenings
The three evening screenings are included in the passe-partout tickets, but can also be attended seperately.
Free admission during the day
Meet the Archive on 28 May
Work in Progress
Exceptional stories about cinema history and forgotten films. Today featuring, among others, Short Scores and Ida Lohman.
Beyond the Archive
Exceptional stories about cinema history and forgotten films. Today, among other subjects, Vrouwen van Suriname (Oema foe Sranan).
Animated
Exceptional stories about forgotten films. Today: animation techniques and history, film drawings and gaming with colonial film.
Knockin' on Herman's Door
Rediscovered Herman Brood songs and footage of the chaotic shoot for Cha-cha in this documentary about Amsterdam’s pop scene in the 1970s.
Vrouwen van Suriname – Oema foe Sranan
Portrait of the lives of four women who talk about Dutch (neo)colonialism in Surinam and the racism and disenfranchisement in the Netherlands. New restoration.
Practical information
Drinks and Food
We will offer coffee and tea throughout the day, but no lunch and dinner. However, there are many food options around Eye Filmmuseum and the Eye Collection Centre. Please refer to the “Restaurant List” document on this web page. You are welcome to join us for Opening Drinks on Saturday 28th May at 21:30 and Closing Drinks on Tuesday 31st May at 19:00.
Looking for information on how to reach us?
Conference Program Outline
Conference Program Booklet
Restaurant list
This is Film! 2022
Public lecture series devoted to film heritage on 'Global Audiovisual Archiving'.
1-minute film compilations
Students undertaking the course This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice at the University of Amsterdam have created 1-minute film compilations inspired by the conference theme, ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving’. For the compilations, they have used footage from platforms such as Open Images, The Internet Archive, or other open-source repositories.
Excess Neglected: Political Memory and Popular Global Archives by Lori Stirland-Legret, Tikin Tan, Samuel Smith & Sebastian Rousseau
“Tu nous regardes comme des insects” by Ahmed AbdulMageed, Emma Brent & Sanne Hesseling
The Cinema Took the Same Route by Luis Felipe Ragua Miranda, Tim van de Peppel, Julie Peterse & Iga Romanek
Shadows by Hanxiao Luo, Haitian Ma, Vera Mennens & Nouk Mutsaers
Film Us As We Are by Yuanling Hu, Amy Keegan, Cody Kenner & Maud Kissling
Your Camera and How to Use It by Emma van der Westen, Chen-Yang Zhang, Stanley Ward & Meg Weijers
Organization
Steering committee
Giovanna Fossati (President)
Gerdien Smit (Secretary)
Frank Roumen (Meet the Archive)
Program committee
Giovanna Fossati (Eye/University of Amsterdam)
Anne Gant (Eye)
Gerdien Smit (Eye)
Eleni Tzialli (Eye)
Rachael Stoeltje (AMIA/Indiana University)
Dennis Doros (AMIA)
Laura Rooney (AMIA)
Floris Paalman (University of Amsterdam)
Advisory board
Aboubakar Sanogo (University of Carleton)
Ines Aisengart Menezes (Witness)
Juana Suárez (NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation)
Judith Opoku-Boateng (University of Ghana/IASA)
Karen Chan (Asian Film Archive)
Lisabona Rahman (Freelance Moving Image Preservation and Presentation Consultant)
Maral Mohsenin (Cinémathèque suisse, University of Lausanne/University of Amsterdam)
Martino Cipriani (RMIT University Saigon/University of Amsterdam)
Nour Ouayda (Metropolis Cinema Association Lebanon)
THIS EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY EYE FILMMUSEUM IN COLLABORATION WITH ASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS (AMIA) + UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM (UVA) AND THE AMSTERDAM SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL ANALYSIS (ASCA).
With support of:
Questions? Email us at conference@eyefilm.nl.
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* Here the rough categories “Global North” and “Global South” are used for lack of better definitions. These terms are problematic as they convey a sense of “geographic determinism” and need to be replaced by more precise descriptions of the specific cultural and geographical contexts that are discussed. It should also be noted that a similar unbalance exists within Global North countries between institutional and non-institutional (and/or counter) archives.
Header image © Francis Alÿs, REEL-UNREEL, 2011, Kabul, Afghanistan 2011, 19:32 min. In collaboration with Julien Devaux and Ajmal Maiwandi. BY-NC-ND