EYE International Conference 2018

The program will feature three invited keynote lecturers. On Sunday 27 May, Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsaesser, Professor Emeritus of Media and Culture, will kick off the conference with his lecture entitled Preservation and Presentation: Five Narratives to Activate the Archive. On Monday 28 May, Prof. Dr. Faye Ginsburg, Professor of Social Anthropology at New York University, will address the struggle of sustaining indigenous archives. On the same day, Prof. Dr. Julia Noordegraaf, Professor of Digital Heritage at UvA, will discuss the repurposing of audio-visual content through collaborative description.

The program contains varied presentations by 65 speakers from archives, museums, universities and cultural organisations all around the world: from Taiwan, Turkey, Switzerland, the Philippines, to Italy and Brazil. 

EYE Collection Day ‘Meet the Archive’
Saturday 26 May
Cinema 1

12:00 – 14:00
Meet the Archive: From the Magic Lantern to 3D

• Opening of the EYE Collection Day by Giovanna Fossati, Chief Curator and Frank Roumen, Director of Collection
• Excerpt from the home movie Samengestelde rol met optochten, filmopnames en dagelijks leven in Montreal (Louis Pierre Oostvogels, 1959 – 1960, NL) by Dorette Schootemeijer, Curator Amateur Film
• The Restoration of Hans Richter Films by Annike Kross, Film Restorer and Mark-Paul Meyer, Senior Curator Expanded Cinema
• The EYE Collection of Magic Lantern Slides by Soeluh van den Berg, Curator Film-Related Collections
• International premiere of the new reconstruction of Freem (Karel Schmeink, Frans van der Staak and Gerard van den Eerenbeemt, 1966, NL) by Simona Monizza, Curator Experimental Film
• 3D Films from the 1940s: An Unknown Treasure by Rommy Albers, Senior Curator Dutch Film

14:15 – 15:45
Meet the Archive: Preserving Animation, and What to Do with VHS?

• Piccolo, Saxo and Company (Jan Coolen, 1959, Joop Geesink's Dollywood, NL)
• The Jewels of Dutch Animation: The NIAF Collection by Leenke Ripmeester, Curator Animation
• Animation Artwork: A Whole New Set of Preservation Challenges by Aafke Weller and Mette Peters, Researchers Project Materials in Motion
• VJ Peter Rubin: Discoveries from the VHS Tape Collection by Curator Simona Monizza and Eleni Tzialli

16:15 – 18:00
Meet the Archive: First Robot Filmmaker

• Bits & Pieces. Nrs. 624 t/m 635 (EYE Filmmuseum, 2017, NL)
• Meet Jan Bot: Bringing Film Heritage to the Algorithmic Age by Pablo Núñez and Bram Loogman
• The George Sluizer Project – Producer, Archive and Post House, a cooperation in digitization by Anne van Es, Producer and Dutch Film Liaison
• Opening of the EYE International Conference 2018 by Sandra den Hamer, CEO; Giovanna Fossati, Chief Curator and Professor of Film Heritage at the University of Amsterdam; and Eef Masson, Programme Coordinator of the MA Preservation & Presentation of the Moving Image, University of Amsterdam

18:00
Drinks in the Foyer offered by Haghefilm Digitaal & EYE

20:30 – 22:30
Cinema Concert
Fragment of an Empire (Friedrich Ermler, 1928, Sovkino, Soviet-Union)
Live accompaniment by Colin Benders

Free access to EYE International Conference attendees but sign up (t.b.a.) is required due to limited capacity

Sunday 27 May
Cinema 1

10:00 – 10:20
Screening: Uit het Rijk der Kristallen (J.C. Mol, 1927, NL) with live music by Bernhard Hollinger

Announcements by Giovanna Fossati (EYE Filmmuseum/University of Amsterdam - UvA)

10:20 – 11:30
Keynote
Preservation and Presentation: Five Narratives to Activate the Archive
By Prof. Dr. Thomas Elsaesser (Emeritus Professor at University of Amsterdam)

11:30 – 12:30
Images of Dissent and Countercultural Collections
Moderator: Floris Paalman (UvA)

• “This is not a Clampdown”: Archiving Bologna’s Countercultural Films and Analog Videos of the late Eighties and early Nineties by Diego Cavallotti (University of Udine)
• The Importance of Archiving Political Films in the Philippines by Rosemarie Omnes Roque (University of the Philippines)
• Here We Go: The Coal Dispute, Community Video Archives and the Battle for Memory at Orgreave by Alex Wilson (Sheffield Hallam University)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:50
Community Archiving and Non-institutional Practices
Moderator: Erwin Verbruggen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – Sound and Vision)

• Autonomous Archiving by Özge Çelikaslan & Alper Şen (Artıkişler Collective)
• Case Study: London: A Bigger Picture by Lenka Sucha & Storm Patterson (London's Screen Archives)
• The Lake Relies on the Streams that Fill It: Sustainability, Collaboration and Engagement in Community-led Moving Image Collections as Contributors to Wider Film Archive Ecologies by Maya Darrell Hewins (Shetland College, University of the Highlands and Islands)
• Dealing with Non-Industry Born-Digital Audiovisual Works: Lessons from Activist Archivists and Personal Digital Archiving by Howard Besser (NYU Tisch School of the Arts)

14:55 – 15:55
Resistant Archives and Archival Activism
Moderator: Marie-Aude Baronian (UvA)

• An Audio-Visual Archive as a Source of Evidence of Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by Richard Bucket
• Pitfalls of the Activist-Archive: A Critical Study of Online Video Archives depicting Syria by Nicholas Avedisian-Cohen
• Towards a Living Activist Archive Online: Case Study of CivilMedia@TW in Taiwan by Chia-Wei Tung

15:55 – 16:30 Intermission

16:30 – 17:30
The Ethics of Reuse
Moderator: Mieke Lauwers (Sound & Vision)

• The Ethics of a Meandering Cache: Appraising Documentary Out-Takes for Collective and Autonomous Archiving by Tina Bastajian (Amsterdam University College)
• The Way We Were: “Misty Watercolor Memories” by Katrine Madsbjerg (Danish Film Institute)
• The Legal and Ethical Implications of Reusing Audio-visual Records of Social Movements and Dissent, and of Reusing Audio-Visual Records of Everyday Life in New Social and Political Contexts by Melanie Louise Brown (Bournemouth University)

17:30 – 18:30
The Resisting Copyright and its Archival Implications
Moderator: Claudy op den Kamp (Bournemouth University)

• The Rhetoric of Fair Use by Peter Jaszi (American University, Washington College of Law)
• Fair Use or Fare Use by Wendy Bevan-Mogg (Bournemouth University)
• Lawful Creativity or Creative Lawfulness by Bartolomeo Meletti (CREATe, University of Glasgow / BFI)               
• Panel conversation
• Book presentation The Greatest Films Never Seen: The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen by Claudy Op den Kamp (Amsterdam University Press and EYE Filmmuseum)

18:30 – 20:30 Dinner

20:30 – Evening programme

Presentation:
“Old” Images of Iran Resurfaced: The Case of Tehran Has No More Pomegranates! (2006) by Maral Mohsenin (University of Lausanne/ UvA) (co-author Carine Bernasconi, University of Lausanne)

Screening: Tehran has no more Pomegranates! (Massoud Bakhshi, 2006, 35mm, 68’)

Monday 28 May
Cinema 1

10:00 – 10:20
Screening: compilation of shorts from the EYE collection

• Danses Algeriennes (1902, FR)
• Meni (Karel Doing, 1994, NL)
• The Burning Bride (Eveline Ketterings, 2003, NL)

Announcements by Giovanna Fossati (EYE/ UvA)

10:20 – 11:30
Keynote
The Road Forward: Indigenous Media and the Archival Imaginary 
by Prof. Dr. Faye Ginsburg (New York University)

11:30 – 12:30
Absences and Diversity in Archival Collections and the Profession
Moderator: Patricia Pisters (UvA)

• To Preserve is to Resist: The Case of the Public Video Production Centre in Ferrara (Italy) by Mariela Cantu (Arca Video Argentino) & Lisa Parolo (University of Udine)
• Invisible​ ​Women​: ​How​ ​can​ ​Curators​ ​Address​ ​the​ ​Issue​ ​of​ ​Gendered​ ​Gaps​ ​in​ ​the Archive​ ​through​ ​Exhibition​ ​and​ Practice? by Camilla Baier & Rachel Pronger
• The Peeping Archivist: A Case for Building a Strong Professional Community by Britt Patterson, Sarah Vandegeerde and Marina Butt (The Peeping Archivist)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:40
Keynote
Crossing Boundaries in the Digital Archive: Repurposing Audiovisual Content through Collaborative Description
by Prof. Dr. Julia Noordegraaf (UvA)

14:40 – 16:00
Re-readings of the Archive
Moderator: Marijke de Valck (Utrecht University)

• Archives as Storytellers by Joanna Poses
• National Parks, Nitrate Film, and America's Memory of the Commons by Jeff Lambert (National Film Preservation Foundation)
• Cinematheques and Videotheques as Political Institutions by Mihai Fulger (Romanian National Film Archive)
• Arctic Archives: From Ethnographic Documentation to Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Indigenous Rights by Scott MacKenzie (Queen's University, Ontario) and Anna Westerstahl Stenport (Georgia Institute of Technology)

16:00 – 16:30 Intermission

16:30 – 18:20
Pedagogy against the Grain
Moderator: Eef Masson (UvA)

Presentations:

• An Antidote to "Post-Truth". Teaching Audio-Visual Archiving as a Model for Evidence-Based Critical Thinking by Sabrina Negri (University of Colorado Boulder)
•  “Vision in Motion”, Thought in Process: Research Fellowships as Hybrid Workshops for the Intermittent Movement of Critical Enquiry by Sofia Pires

Round Table:

• Dimitrios Latsis (Ryerson University, Toronto)
• Snowden Becker & Jonathan Naveh (UCLA, Los Angeles)
• Clara Sánchez-Dehesa (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, San Sebastian)
• Juana Suárez (NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York)
• Vinzenz Hediger & Sonia Campanini (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
• Giovanna Fossati (EYE/ UvA)

18:20 – 18:30 Reflection on Fifteen years of the MA programme Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image by Eef Masson (UvA) and Giovanna Fossati (EYE/UvA)

18:30 – 20:30 Dinner

20:30 – Evening program 

Screening:

A World Not Ours (Mahdi Fleifel, 2012, DCP, 93’) with an introduction by Asli Ozgen-Tuncer (UvA)

Tuesday 29 May
EYE Filmmuseum (Cinema 1)
&
EYE Collection Centre

10:00 – 10:20
Screening: 
Bits & Pieces 565 t/m 572 (EYE, 2009, NL)

Announcements by Giovanna Fossati (EYE/ UvA)

10:20 – 11:30
Round Table: Activating Audio Collections
Moderator: Carolyn Birdsall (UvA)

• Ricarda Franzen (UvA)
• Jennifer Hsieh
• Gregory Markus (Sound and Vision)
• John Ashley Burgoyne (UvA)
• meLê Yamomo (UvA)

11:30 – 13:00
Tools & Case Study Presentations
Moderator: Anne Gant (EYE)

Activating the Archive: Tools

• Empowering Artists to be in Control of their Artworks: LIMA’s Artwork Documentation Tool by Mila van der Weide & Rachel Somers Miles (LIMA)
• CLARIAH by Eva Baaren (Sound and Vision) (co-authors: Christian Olesen, Liliana Melgar, Norah Karrouche, Kaspar Beelen, Willem Melder, Roeland Ordelman, Julia Noordegraaf)

Activating the Archive: Case Studies

• La Red del Cine Doméstico (The Network of Home Movies) by Clara Sánchez-Dehesa Galán (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola/ La Red del Cine Domestico) & Salvador Vivancos (La Red del Cine Domestico)
• The Asian Film Archive by Karen Chan & Chew Tee Pao (Asian Film Archive)
• Cinemateca Brasileira by Ines Aisengart Menezes (Cinemateca Brasileira)
• Tibet Film Archive by Tenzin Phuntsog (Montana State University/ Tibet Film Archive)

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch + move to the EYE Collection Centre

14:00 – 17:00
Programme in the EYE Collection Centre (Asterweg 26)

14:00 – 15:15 (Cinema 5)
Panel Activating the Film Apparatus by Annie van den Oever (University of Groningen) & Benoît Turquety (University of Lausanne) and Hans van der Kraan (EYE)

14:30 – 15:30 (Large Meeting Room)
Workshop Audiovisual Annotation for Media Historians: an introduction to the CLARIAH Media Suite and MIMEHIST - Annotating EYE’s Jean Desmet Collection by Christian Olesen (Uva), Kathleen Lotze (UvA) and Liliana Melgar (UvA/Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)

16:00 – 17:00 (Cinema 5)
Presentation EYE Artist and Scholar in Residence

17:00 – 20:00
P&P 15th Anniversary Party

De Ruimte (Distelweg 83)

Registration prices

• Registration fee includes lunch and dinner on Sunday and Monday.
• Registration also grants access to the EYE Collection Day and Cinema Concert on May 26

Opening Times Guest Desk

Upon your arrival at the EYE Filmmuseum please check in at the EYE International Conference Guest Desk. There you can show your ticket (and student card if applicable to you) and receive your conference badge and tickets. The Guest desk opening hours are as follows:

Saturday 26 May EYE Collection Day
10:00 – 17:30
18:30 - 19:30 (only for Cinema Concert tickets)

Sunday 27 May EYE International Conference
09:00 – 19:00

Monday 28 May EYE International Conference
09:00 – 10:00
12:30 – 13:30
15:30 – 16:30
18:30 – 19:00

Tuesday 29 May EYE International Conference
09:00 – 10:00
13:00 – 13:30

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and EYE Filmmuseum have established a travel grant programme for speakers of the EYE International Conference. The grants, up to 500 euro each, can be used to partially offset registration and travel costs. The travel grant programme is only open for speakers of the EYE International Conference 2018.

The call for application is now closed and 7 speakers have been awarded a travel grant.