teaching

Curating the Moving Image

(for students in the MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image) This course focuses on the theory and practice of presenting audiovisual media to a public. Students learn to critically reflect on the institutional contexts in which audiovisual media are being collected, preserved and made accessible to audiences in the form of programmes, exhibitions, compilation films, DVD’s, websites, television programmes, etc. Besides, they learn to reflect on the specific demands of presenting moving images and sound (time based nature, preservation demands, technical requirements, copyrights and distribution rights, etc). Finally, they learn to analyse various forms of presentation and curate a specific presentation of audiovisual material.

Theory Archives and Media

(for students in the MA Preservation and Presentation ofthe Moving Image, with dr.Marie-Aude Baronian) This course aims to introduce students to different theoretical perspectives on the media archive and learn how to analyse specific case studies from those perspectives. In recent years the archive has become a major trope in the humanities. The archive is being recognized as a central cultural phenomenon that plays a crucial role in how we see ourselves as historically and socially situated and mediated subjects. As a space that ‘documents’ our existence the archive determines how we culturally situate ourselves between past, present and future. Authors from various disciplines have studied the archive in relation to notions of history, memory, forgetting, identity politics,  power and postmodernism, amongst others. During the lectures various texts will be discussed that explore the political, historical, ethical, aesthetical, juridical and philosophical aspects of (audiovisual) archiving.

Tutorial The Audiovisual Memory of (In)Justice

(for students in the Research Master MediaStudies, 2006, 2007 and 2009) In this tutorial we investigate the role of audiovisual heritage in relation to cases of severe injustice, like genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and their adjudication in international criminal tribunals. In particular, it aims to analyse the dynamic role of audiovisual heritage in the documentation and reconstruction of, and reconciliation with, such conflicts. We will focus on the creation of audiovisual documentation, the archiving of this material and its reuse in reconstructing and remembering the traumatic events. Possible themes for the end paper are: documentary footage as evidence in court, fiction films as ‘prosthetic memories’ of traumatic events, the reuse of court session recordings on radio and TV, or the use of streaming video to documentcrimesandraiseattention to them. Students participating in this tutorial also have the opportunity to collaborate on the programming and organisationof an international symposium on Memory, Archives and Justice, that will take place in November 2007 as part of the ‘Cinema & Justice’ programme of the Cinemathèque in The Hague, Stroom Centre for Contemporary Art, the French Embassy, international tribunals, NGO’s, and the Universiteit van Amsterdam. 

Cinema&Justice 2005 programme

Analyse Film en Visuele Cultuur (Analysis of Film and Visual Culture)

(seminars taught in theBA Media and Culture, in 2004, 2005 and 2007) De student bouwt voort op de kennis die is opgedaan in de propedeuse van de klassieke analysemethoden uit het filmstudiesveld en bekwaamt zich in het zelfstandig uitvoeren van beeld- en geluidanalyses. De student analyseert en vergelijkt de verhalende structuur en stilistische en esthetische aspecten van verschillende films. Uit klassiek filmwetenschappelijk werk worden de belangrijkste methoden gedestilleerd. De nadruk ligt op het vervolgens actief toepassen van deze analysemethoden op beeld en geluid. Ook komt de rol van de historische en culturele context in productie, receptie en interpretatie van de film aan bod. In de werkgroepen voeren studenten opdrachten uit en doen hiervan schriftelijk en mondeling verslag.

Seminar Audiovisual Sources

(course taught in the MA Programme Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, second semester 2004 and 2005) This course aims to provide insight into the various aspects involved in working with audiovisual sources, in particular with the purpose of presenting them to a public. At the end of the course, students should be able to find audiovisual source material on their own and to consciously use this material in various types of presentations. In addition, students learn to reflect on the processes of identification, selection, application and reception of audiovisual sources. Further, students are introduced to possible problems with regards to the use of audiovisual source material, such as conservation demands, limited accessibility and/or legal restrictions. The theoretical and practical findings result in a short compilation film, that students will present and defend at the end of the course.

Course schedule

Tutorial Le Regard, L'Image

(with dr. Sophie Berrebi, for the Research MA's Cultural Analysis and Media and Culture, second semester 2004-2005) The interdisciplinary project Le Regard, L'Image: Dekolonisatie Verbeeld investigates the role of images in the memories, histories and imagination of decolonisation. Bringing together different cultural contexts and theoretical perspectives and addressing both broad and specialised audiences, Le Regard, L’Image consists of a contemporary art exhibition and special commission, a film program and a conference that will take place simultaneously in different locations across Amsterdam. It will be prolonged by a publication. The tutorial consists of an in-depth investigation of the three central themes for the conference: Images of decolonisation, Decolonising the image, New images, new identities. Students learn how to find and discuss academic texts related to those themes. Besides, the aim is to get an overview of related projects in the field of photography, film and museum exhibitions.

Course syllabus

Theses

SupervisionofMA theses on the following topics:

  • The role of broadcasting companies in the financing of film productions: comparative research in the Netherlands and Flanders
  • Presenting media in the museum: case study are the plans for the new museum of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (national broadcasting archive)
  • Digital restoration practices in European film archives
  • The impact of digital technologies on the role and place of the archivist in broadcasting archives
  • The singing films of film tenor Joseph Schmidt: classification of the versions of his 1930s films and the relation between the multiple versions and the genre of tenor films

Work Placement Projects

Supervision of the following work placement projects (in the MA programme Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image):

  • Nitrate Identification and Digital Restoration at the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam
  • Research and Description for BIRTH Project on Early Television at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
  • Cataloguing and Describing Works by Cardena and Stansfield & Hooykaas at the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo
  • Developing Online Film Programme for the International Film Festival Rotterdam
  • Research and Programme for Historical Cinema at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive
  • Identification and Preservation Advice 35 mm Film Collection Institute for Military History
  • Assistant-Programmer in the South-East Asia Eyes Programmeat the International Film Festival Rotterdam
  • Research and Publicity for the Programme on Dutch Animation Filmmaker Gerrit van Dijk at the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam
  • Assistant-Programmer in the Exploding Cinema Programme at theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam
  • Digitisation of media art collection at V2, Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam
  • Preservation of the Dutch experimental film collection at the Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
  • Research on National Cinema and the Soviet-export collection at the Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
  • Identification, selection, preservation advice and presentation ofamateur film at the Smalfilmmuseum, Hilversum
  • Managing and assessing the cultural value of the audiovisual collection of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, The Hague
  • Inventory and description of the private collection of visual artist Marina Abramovich, Amsterdam
  • Preservation advice and restoration work, research on Asta Nielsen and preparation for DVD Frankfurt im Film at the Deutsches Filmmuseum,Frankfurt
  • Assisting with sales and distributionat Fortissimo,Amsterdam


Filmmuseum

BIRTH

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/TBA

Tiger Online

International Film Festival Rotterdam

Municipal Archive Amsterdam

Institute for Military History

Smalfilmmuseum

Deutsches Filmmuseum

ICTY

Fortissimo

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