European Film Gateway News Alert

As a partner of the Europeana Data Space For Cultural Heritage, DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum is seeking a subcontractor to carry out ingests of metadata from 12 European film archives into the database behind the online portal European Film Gateway. Existing mappings between XML files provided by the archives and the EFG database partly need to be adjusted. Deadline for proposals: 24 February 2023.

Find the full RFP here.

Join the Europeana Aggregators Forum outreach event and discover how the EAF enables cultural heritage institutions to share their content with Europeana, open it up to new audiences, and how you can join them!

Developed in the framework of the international research project "ViCTOR-E: Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-WW II Europe", the online exhibition Frames of Reconstruction. Realities and Visions of Recovering Europe. Documentary Film in Postwar Visual Culture tells a visual history of the European postwar era and reconstruction efforts that were unfolding across the continent from 1944 until 1956.

The 2019 Copyright Directive brought forward a solution to clear copyright on out of commerce works. To benefit from this solution, cultural heritage institutions need to publicise their intention to make datasets available online via the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) out of commerce works portal.   

In the light of the war in the Ukraine, the Association of European Cinematheques continues to seek ways to support its colleagues from the Oleksandr Dvozhenko Centre in Kyiv.

On 20-22 April 2022, the final conference of the international research project "ViCTOR-E - Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-WW II Europe" will take place at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art.

The organizers of the FIAF Congress 2022, which will take place in Budapest, Hungary from 24-29 April 2022, have issued a Call for Papers for the FIAF Symposium entitled "The Visible Archive: Archiving, preserving, digitizing, and sharing 'non-feature' film collections".

On the occasion of this year's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage we are excited to announce a new thematic collection on EFG focusing on reconstruction efforts after WWII in Europe, particularly in the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Italy. This collection is one of the results of the EU-funded research project "VICTOR-E: Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-WW II Europe".

The international research project "VICTOR-E - Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration and Reconstruction in Post-WW II Europe" that explores how audiovisual representations of public spaces – and particularly the documentation of war damage and of reconstruction efforts –, shaped the politics, policies and polities of post-WW II Europe, will hold its final conference "The Reconstruction of Post-World-War II Europe through the Visual Arts" from 20 - 22 April 2022 in Paris. The Call for papers is out now.

Since late June this year, Arxiu del So i de la Imatge de Mallorca (ASIM) present almost 100 films from their extensive collections documenting the history and intra-history, heritage and ethnography of the island.