Film Cultures and Heritage: FILMemory

Programme(s): Erasmus+ Programme (ERASMUS)-undefined

Topic(s): ERASMUS-EDU-2021-EMJM-DESIGN

Type of action: ERASMUS Lump Sum Grants

Project ID: 101049881

Objective

FILMemory is a project targeting the design and implementation of a MA program on European film and its heritage. Departing from film as a key art form of the 20th century, the future master’s will explore today's digital media culture and the build-up of a collective cultural memory. FILMemory will offer a profound investigation of the diverse European film cultures and the social dimensions they entail. This includes the analysis of the past and present ways in which films are made, distributed, screened but also received, perceived, discussed and written about. A second strand will explore the ways in which films and documents about film cultures are preserved; restored; archived; re-circulated; re-used; re-constructed.  This dual perspective ensures the program will cover both the material, the symbolic and the socio-cultural dimensions of film. A distinctive feature of our proposal is that it is to be jointly delivered by the HEI’s involved in the European University FilmEU and relevant non-educational partners. FILMemory will not only further shape the partnerships but also define the curriculum and the final nature of the degree to be awarded. Our partners educate filmmakers and practitioners within the domain of documentary symbiosis between the fiction, and animation but they also train film archivists, preservationists, and curators, thus offering a theoretical and critical exploitation of film and the practice of filmmaking, resulting in a broad and innovative outcome for the graduates. FILMemory will play a significant role in delivering needed specialists for audio-visual archives, cinemas, festivals, film funds, journals, museums, digital image processing labs, distribution companies, production companies, publishing/press agencies, government agencies, and all those entities dealing with audio-visual culture for the 21st century in a context marked by cultural analytics and the increasing discursive power of the moving image.