SEAPAVAA

SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archives Association

The 12th Film Restoration and Preservation Workshop

Location: Tokyo, Japan
Dates: 25 – 27 August 2017
Teaching language: Japanese

Functioning as Japan’s first and longest-standing film archival training course, the 12th edition of this workshop tries to give the participants every kind of information and skills necessary for contemporary moving image archiving, and to discuss and share the daily problems that archivists commonly face. The hybrid organizing committee consisting of IMAGICA, IMAGICA West, Tokyo Laboratory, Toy Film Museum, Film Preservation Society, and Japanese Association of Moving Image Archivists [tentatively named], cooperatively works with National Film Center, a FIAF member, whose curatorial and technical staff members contribute to this event as lecturers, panelists, and instructors, and strive hard to bring together various talents of Japan’s moving image archiving community including film studios, photochemical and digital labs, film and media manufacturers, filmmakers and librarians/historians/academicians. Open to the public including overseas students.

Registration is closed once maximum capacity is reached.

For further information (in Japanese only): http://ws12.peatix.com/

 

Restoration Asia IV Fukuoka, Japan

Restoration Asia IV
Fukuoka, Japan
23rd & 24th of September 2017

 

An event hosted by the Focus On Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival, the Fukuoka City Public Library Film Archive and the Japan Foundation- Asia Center with the endorsement of SEAPAVAA and FIAF, Restoration Asia IV will showcase the work of archives, technical service providers and distributors, both from within and outside Asia, to highlight the measures being taken to preserve the audio-visual heritage of Asia.

For the Submission of Proposals, General Information and details of Sponsorship Opportunities please contact: adrian@restorationasia.org

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Call for presentations FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2017

FIAT/IFTA World Conference

“ Living in the Digital Age; Connecting Roots and Cultures”

Mexico City, 18-21 October 2017

The 2017 FIAT/IFTA World Conference, hosted by the Fonoteca Nacional, in collaboration with TV UNAM and the SPR, National Broadcast System, will take place in Mexico City from October 18 to October 21.

40 years ago FIAT/IFTA was founded by a small group of television archives seeking to establish a new forum for collaboration and pooling of expertise and knowledge within the emerging television archive sector, focusing attention on the preservation and use of analog films and tapes. Today, digital audiovisual content is ubiquitous, all consuming and multiplying at a rapid pace. It is produced and exchanged constantly by ever more people. Communication and interactions are also increasing in a multi-media form enabled by new and flourishing digital technologies. Living in the digital age poses huge questions and challenges to all organisations managing audiovisual content for preservation, future access and re-use. As media archives, how do we continue to capture the present, preserve the past and make it all available for the future with such an increasing amount of digital contents surrounding us? Where does our domain begin and end?

As every year, the 2017 conference will provide a unique occasion for archives to discuss & learn about the challenges, approaches, solutions and innovations in use and technologies to help strengthen and grow the value of the professional archive four decades on. Different aspects of the archive’s lifecycle, use and potential value will be presented enabling participants to grasp what has been done and what will be possible in the future. Special emphasis will be put on exchanges and discussions with experts through round-tables for a deeper understanding of subjects and themes. Reflections on the 40 years of FIAT/IFTA will be woven into the programme.

The conference will run over 3 days organised into the following sessions:

  • Keynote speakers
  • Plenary sessions
  • Workshops
  • Case study sessions
  • Expert-led themed tables

Call for presentations

Presentations should be based on user experiences, new initiatives or perspectives, striking conclusions, successes and also failures; the main objective is to share knowledge and results with FIAT/IFTA members in order to understand the lessons learned and new challenges or solutions arising. Most sessions will consist of four 20 minutes presentations plus time for discussion and questions.

The following list of topics reflects current interests and evolutions; other suggestions for subjects which are not mentioned in the call are welcome, please send them to us so we can get a better understanding of the needs of our members.

If you would like to present during the 2017 World Conference please send us an abstract of the presentation (15 to 20 lines) and a short bio (5 to 10 lines). The selection of presentations will be made in June by the program organisation team. The presenters will receive an email after this selection.

Contributions should be sent to: office@fiatifta.org
The deadline for presenting propositions is May 31 2017.

Our Core Themes

  1. Archives and their users: creative re-use, curation, academic research, Multi-media storytelling and big data journalism: central concepts for a contemporary audiovisual archive.
    • The user-oriented approach: driven by demand, tailored to the target group. New archival platforms for specific audiences
    • Archive as a place of creation: web documentaries based on archival material and other new forms of archive valorisation
    • Multi-media storytelling – digital storytelling and multimedia narrative using archival footage
  2. Archival strategy in a network environment: the audiovisual archive, its funders, its customers and its partners.
    • Making your mark: internal advocacy strategies for archives within a broadcaster
    • Making your money: external funding strategies
    • Breaching the fortress walls: production archives on commercial clouds, broadcaster’s archives as parts of a national heritage
    • New platforms, new models for archives? How are the big players in the new market place for television content managing these archives?
  3. A region rapidly evolving: trends and challenges for inter-culturalism and audiovisual archives in Latin America
    • Defying degradation and obsolescence: particular circumstances, particular solutions
    • Local cultures in a globalised world: engaging new audiences with a common past
    • Collaboration as a strategy: regional, national, continental connections
  4. Media Management: Embracing Automation, Enhancing Discoverability Case studies, User experiences, changing workflows and new roles in a 3rd generation MAM environment.
    • MAMs as a Service, MAMs in the cloud: the transition from monolithic blocs to micro services and service oriented architectures
    • Flying in, flying out: the archivist as an organisation-wide media traffic controller
    • Diversified strategies for metadata creation: harvesting production metadata, automated enrichment, user generated and consumer generated metadata
  5. Open, Share, Engage and Measure The challenges of publishing content for multiple audiences on multiple platforms.
    • Keeping track of versions and formats: developing a technically fitting offer for every platform and every target group
    • Next levels of rights management: harvesting data, enabling re-use
    • From clicks and eyeballs to useful user data: what can you learn from your user stats? How to turn simple figures into real business intelligence?
  6. Transformation in the digital age: sustainability, digital preservation and large-scale transcoding and/or rewrapping:
    • The quest for a sustainable format and codec: reconciling preservation and production needs: what will the future bring?
    • Transcoding project management: deciding, planning, testing, executing, controlling and evaluating
    • Preservation watchdogs: checking sustainability and file integrity in large-scale digital archives

 

Website: http://fiatifta.org/index.php/2017/04/07/call-for-presentations-fiatifta-world-conference-2017/

FRAME Training Course 2017

Summary FRAME 2017:

In 2017, FRAME, the Ina’s international training course has been redesigned to incorporate a more itinerant approach. Two sessions of 5 days each focusing on current and future issues of audiovisual archives management sector will be hold in 2017; the first one at Ina from June 19 to 23 and the second one which will take place in the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, from November 6 to 10, 2017.

More information:

http://www.ina-expert.com/news/frame-training-course-2017.html

 

Background of FRAME training course:

http://www.ina-expert.com/news/frame-the-history-in-figures.html

2017 SOIMA International Course on Sustaining Sound and Image Collections

 

Good News! The application deadline has been extended to 3 April 2017! 
 
ICCROM together with the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, is accepting applications for its 2017 SOIMA International Course on Sustaining Sound and Image Collections. The course will take place from July 9 to 23, 2017 in Accra, Ghana.
 
This advanced workshop will bring together a group of committed professionals to address the challenges of collecting, preserving, and using (and re-using) sound, still and moving image content within the broader context of rapidly changing technology and shrinking resources.
 
Course topics will include: 
Digital preservation, collections assessments, dealing with digitization and documentation backlogs, utilizing innovative open access solutions, intellectual property rights, copyright legislation, community-based archiving and assessing values and meanings of audiovisual collections.
 
The course programme will be designed according to participants’ current and future projects. It is a unique opportunity for professional development and networking!
 
A limited number of scholarships will be given, but only after the due selection process and upon providing evidence of lack of support.
 
 
To apply: Applicants should send their completed form with a completed personal statement to soima2017@iccrom.org.
 
Thank you and best regards,
ICCROM’s SOIMA

Reframing the Archive: The Reuse of Film and Photographic Images in Postcolonial Southeast Asia

In recent years, the decision to engage with colonial and postcolonial archives has become increasingly commonplace within Southeast Asian film, photography and visual culture. Whilst this renewed interest in archival materials has resulted in an increased awareness of the complexities of lens-based media, it has also allowed practitioners to challenge both the dominant narratives of colonialism and their neo- and postcolonial legacies. In the case of Cambodia and its diasporas, this archival impulse – and its accompanying modes of (re-) appropriation – is exemplified by films such as Rithy Panh’s La France est notre patrie [‘France is our Homeland’] and Davy Chou’s Golden Slumbers. Whereas the former offers an insight into the hypocrisies of French colonial rule, the latter takes its lead from the development of twentieth century Cambodian cinema. Yet despite differing in their aims and emphases, these projects share a number of common characteristics – namely, a desire to foreground the importance of preserving and revisiting archival materials: two imperatives which have acquired a particular significance in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Taking its lead from these recent developments, this symposium will explore the ways in which colonial and postcolonial film and photographic archives have been rearticulated within a range of Southeast Asian political and aesthetic contexts. How have artists and filmmakers sought to subvert existing power relations through the use of colonial images? To what extent have archival materials and technologies allowed for an investigation into the emancipatory potential of the lens? How have these techniques been utilised by diasporic populations? Though preference will be given to submissions which focus on Southeast Asia, we also welcome papers that draw comparisons with other postcolonial contexts. Possible lines of enquiry include:

  • The political and aesthetic implications of re-situating images
  • Hindu-Buddhist aesthetic conventions and their use/subversion in colonial and postcolonial lens-based practices
  • The ethics, politics and artistic innovations of documentary work
  • Contemporary artistic practices which explore the themes of space, place and home
  • The return of European filmmakers and photographers to the postcolony

The symposium will be accompanied by screenings of two feature-length films by Cambodian filmmakers and a series of short films by emerging filmmakers from Southeast Asia. This programme, we believe, will provide a further opportunity to address the themes raised by the symposium.

The conference and screening programme are organised by Dr Joanna Wolfarth, Dr Fiona Allen, and Annie Jael Kwan independent curator, The Asia Projector.

To submit a paper, please send paper titles, abstracts of c. 500 words and a 2-page CV to reframingthearchive@gmail.com

Deadline for abstracts: 17th February 2017

Contact Info:

Dr Fiona Allen, Dr Joanna Wolfarth and Annie Jael Kwan

21st SEAPAVAA CONFERENCE, April 3rd-8th, 2017, Manila, Philippines: CALL FOR TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATIONS

RFL has agreed to offer sponsorship to the 21st SEAPAVAA Conference in April 2017, the second consecutive year that this support will be offered. SEAPAVAA (SouthEast Asia-Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association) is an association of organisations and individuals dedicated to the development for audiovisual archiving in Southeast Asia and the Pacific to preserve access to the region’s rich audiovisual heritage. The theme of the 2017 conference will be “Imagining an AV Archive of the Future. RFL sponsorship will help support five competent professionals with lesser financial resources to participate in the conference, held this year in Manila, Philippines.

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SEAPAVAA is an association of organizations and individuals involved in the development of audiovisual archiving in Southeast Asia and the Pacific as to preserve and provide access to the region's rich audiovisual heritage.

Contact

Ms. Kamille Olaño
SEAPAVAA Administrative Coordinator
secretariat@seapavaa.net

University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies
c/o SOLAIR, Jacinto St. UP Campus Diliman
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Tel no: (+632) 981 8500 loc. 2869

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