Project: The Lost Heritage: Improving Collaborations between Digital Film Archives
Despite ongoing digitisation efforts within the cultural heritage sector, large parts of Sweden’s audiovisual heritage remain at risk of being forgotten. What do we lose when scholars and policymakers focus primarily on national film archival collections, in terms of collection policies, preservation strategies, and access curation?
Project information
Project manager
Dagmar Brunow
Participating organizations
Linnaeus University, filmform: The Art Film and Video Archive (Stockholm), Kulturparken Småland and SAQMI - The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images (Göteborg).
Financier
Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timetable
2021–2024
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
This project investigates potential collaborations between the National Film Archives and smaller Swedish film archives, examining both the opportunities such partnerships offer and the challenges they present.
The project is part of the research in Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS)