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Beneath Black Skies (www.beneathblackskies.com.au)
Why Documentaries
Australia / 2009
Producer: Sandra Pires
Director: Sandra Pires
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Javier Valledor
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Screen Australia
Wollongong City Council Local Studies Archives
University of Wollongong Library
Waverley City Council Library
Illawarra Historical Society
The Southern Coalfields of Australia have a coal mining history unmatched anywhere else in the world, including Australia's largest industrial disaster…how did coal mining shape the men and women who lived the mining life...beneath black skies?
Beneath Black Skies features a number of segments of archival footage including rare footage of the dusted miner that is presented in innovative and engaging ways. Archival footage has been integrated with dramatised re-enactments to create a sense that for the audience that they are enveloped in the story. There have been many comments by people saying they found it difficult to distinguish between actual and archival footage.
Hunky Blues - The American Dream (Museum of Modern Arts (New York) and at Washington National Gallery)
Filmpartners Ltd
Hungary / 2009
Producer: Gábor Kovács
Director: Péter Forgács
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Péter Forgács, Kellen Quinn
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Library of Congress, USA
NARA, USA
Anthology Film Archive, USA
Hungarian National Film Archive
Hungarian Television 1
Exhibition piece produced to mark the Hungarian Cultural year (EXTREMELY HUNGARY) in New York - Washington 2009.
Supported by: TV2, Balassi Institute, MKB & Hungarian National Film Foundation.
It felt like a kiss (part of interactive exhibition at the Manchester Festival)
BBC / Punchdrunk
UK / 2009
Producer: Lucy Kelsall
Director: Adam Curtis
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Stuart Robertson
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
BBC Motion Gallery
Public Domain
The production started life as an experimental film by Adam Curtis, commissioned by the BBC. Curtis approached Felix Barrett of the Punchdrunk theatre company, with the proposal that a production could be created "as though the audience were walking through the story of the film". The result was a remarkable requiem for post-war Western affluence and idealism occupying five floors of an old office block.
When a nation is powerful it tells the world confident stories about the future. The stories can be enchanting or frightening. But they make sense of the world. But when that power begins to ebb there are no stories any more. Only fragments. You are on your own and you have no idea what is coming towards you from the darkness ahead.
Moving Memories: Tales From Moss Side and Hulme (DVD)
Troubadour Cultural Heritage Foundation
UK / 2009
Producer: Karen Gabay
Director: Karen Gabay
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Karen Gabay & Marion Hewitt
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University
BBC NW
Moving Memories reflects on life in Manchester’s Moss Sideand Hulme for the first West Indian and Sikh families to settle there from the1950s. The filmmaker took BBC regional television features and news, and family films – preserved at theNWFA, and many unseen for decades - back to show in the neighbourhoods where they were filmed, sparking the memories of generations of residents. A refreshingly positive view of growing up in difficult times, the making and screening of this lively film has inspired young and old to connect, and communities to engage with their shared experiences.
Moving Memories is the result of a partnership which was driven by the desire to reveal the hidden depths of a rich collection of BBC regional television material from the 1960s-80s. With modest funding from Manchester Metropolitan University’s Public Engagement Fellowship scheme (awarded to Marion Hewitt in2009), the collaboration between the North West Film Archive, Troubadour Cultural Heritage Foundation, and the BBC has been very successful in revealing overlooked stories and reconnecting them with the present generations. Winning a Focal Award would celebrate the power of partnerships in bringing these to new audiences.
Filmhíradók Online (Newsreels Online) www.filmhiradok.hu
John von Neumann Digital Library and Multimedia Centre
Hungary / 2009
Producer: Dávid Kitzinger
Video library and outplay: Gábor Knapp
Creative producer: Tamás Pawlowszky
Designer: Richard Gazdik
Copywriter: Adél Kánya
Project management: Dániel Molnár
Project assistants: Gábor Letenyei, Zoltán Pesti
History: Zoltán Vági
Newsreel digitization and consultancy: Hungarian National Film Archives
Trailer: Simon Forgács
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: Hungarian newsreels
The Filmhíradók Online (Newsreels Online) offers access to more than 5,000 news blocks from archived Hungarian newsreels of the '30s and early '40s processed in a refined manner. The reason behind creating Filmhíradók Online was to help the everyday user to search and view these documents with ease, because earlier this valuable motion picture heritage was very rarely visited. Browsing the records of the past not only allows for a better understanding of the history; viewing these documents from a historical perspective gives today's audience the opportunity to assess these newsreels of the contemporary media with hindsight.
This page not only addresses the audience concerned in a personal way or interested in the events of the past and the lifestyle of that era, but it also tries to raise the attention of the cultural, educational and economic institutions that there is a possibility for the functional use of these documents.
Reelintime.com www.Reelintime.com
Reelives Limited
UK / 2009
Producer: John Quick
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: Private sources
The user generated film footage, recorded before the arrival of digital cameras and mobile phones, spans the whole of the 20th century. Now those movies gather dust in cupboards and attics all over the world. Reelintime.com creates the world's first archive of domestic film and video that enables people to convert and upload thier films which are becoming obsolete. The site provides a way of unlocking personal history with a rich social networking environment. It presents films on interactive maps by theme, place and time.
This is a site that enables people who are not typically catered for with sites like YouTube. The interface is designed specifially to be friendly towards people who are used to a more traditional look and feel and want to be able to share their home movies with friends and relatives, the greater community or even with documentary makers.
Video Active www.videoactive.eu
For Creation BT
Europe / 2009
Producer: Péter Forgács
Director: Péter Forgács
Footage Archive Researcher(s):
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: Various European broadcasters
The documentary consists of footage solely from the Video Active portal, showing the history and development of television in Europe. Television material is a vital component of Europe’s heritage, collective memory and identity. However, audiovisual material can only reveal cultural commonalities and differences when its origins are known and understood. By presenting a large collection of European television heritage and by contextualizing this collection the Video Active portal offers an enormous resource for exploring both the representation of cultural and historical events within and across nations and the development of the medium itself at a cross-cultural level.
Video Active provides access to European television heritage through an online, multilingual portal. The project reached its final stage in August after three years of development and now contains over 10.000 videos, photographs and articles. The Video Active consortium is comprised of 15 audiovisual archives, 3 universities and 1 software company. Independent filmmaker Péter Forgács has used the material from Video Active to create a short documentary. By using footage from the different archives, Forgács gives an insight in the rich material available on Video Active. The documentary enables viewers to discover various aspects of European television history in a compelling form.
