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 66 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: The First Robot Curator

• Bits & Pieces. Nrs. 624 t/m 635 (EYE Filmmuseum, 2017, NL)
• 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
Fragments 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

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)
• 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

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

When you arrive at EYE Filmmuseum, please make yourself known at the Guest Desk in the main hall. Here you can show your registration and receive your Conference lanyards and tickets for the film screenings. If you have registered as a student please make sure to bring your student card. The volunteers at the guest desk will be available throughout the Conference to assist you.

Saturday 26 May EYE Collection Day
10:00 – 17:30

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