Project: The Cultural Heritage of Moving Images
This project explores how national film archives curate and provide access to film in the digital age. Using two major European film archives, the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) and the British Film Institute (BFI), as case studies, the project asks: What challenges do online archives face when trying to acknowledge the diversity of cultural memory? What gets selected, preserved, digitised, and displayed online, and how? What legal and ethical aspects need to be considered?
Project information
Project manager
Dagmar Brunow
Participating organizations
Linnaeus University
Financier
Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timetable
2016-2018
Subject
Film Studies (Department of Film and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
Research group
Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS)
More about the project
Bringing together ideas from film studies and memory studies, the project looks at the creation of digital memories, how the archives reaches out to audiences, and how they negotiates gaps and absences in the archives. As the creation of cultural heritage both includes and excludes certain groups and individuals, this project also asks how film archiving and curatorial practices can either foster or challenge a sense of belonging. It examines how curatorial choices, along with the use of metadata and paratexts, can open up discursive spaces for minorites in the remediation of memory. In doing so, the project offers new avenues of thinking for the fields of memory studies, archival studies, and museum studies.
The project is part of the research in Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS)
