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Amsterdam
Nederlands Filmmuseum
The Amsterdam Workshop of the Nederlands Filmmuseum
The Nederlands Filmmuseum wants to actively promote its film material for
research purposes. For this reason the Research Department of the museum
created the Amsterdam Workshop. This Workshop focuses on topics and issues
that grow out of the museum's preservation and programming activities. As
the topics addressed are relatively unknown or even neglected in film history,
the museum hopes to extend both the range of film material as well as the
approaches common in film historical research.
The format of the Amsterdam Workshop is a balanced combination of screenings
and discussions. The official language of the Workshop is English. The importance
accorded to screenings in the Amsterdam Workshop reflects the museum's open-minded
archival philosophy, in which all available films, of whatever form or kind,
are considered valuable. To discuss the material screened, a number of film
scholars, film archivists, filmmakers, and relevant experts are invited
by the museum to exchange their views. The first Workshop, launched in July
1994, was devoted to early nonfiction; the topic of the 1995 Workshop was
colour in silent film.
After each Workshop, a book with the proceedings of the discussions, accompanied
by an essay, is published to share the ideas brought up during the Workshop
with a wider audience. For that purpose the museum cooperates with the BFI
for the distribution of these publications. The 1994 proceedings are published
in Nonfiction from the Teens: The 1994 Amsterdam Workshop. The proceedings
of the 1995 Workshop on colour in silent cinema will be published this Spring
of 1996. A follow-up publication on early nonfiction, in which a number
of participants of the 1994 Workshop will contribute essays on issues that
came up during the discussions, is scheduled for publication later this
year.
Although there will be no Amsterdam Workshop in 1996, the line-up of Workshop
topics for the coming years is as follows:
1997: Face the music. Even more fugitive than colour is the music
that either accompanied silent film screenings or was a more or less autonomous
act on the film programme in both the silent and the sound era. The Workshop
of 1997 will be devoted to musical performance in film shows. The choice
for this topic is a direct result of the museum's wish to rethink the ways
it presents its silent films and to discuss the problems related to musical
accompaniment. The Workshop will address questions of authenticity, experience,
context, and meaning of musical performance.
1998: A view of the other. The Nederlands Filmmuseum has a large
collection of (quasi-) ethnographic film material, dating from the turn
of the century until well into the sound era. In this Workshop we want to
remove the distinction between this material, that often circulated in specialized,
often educational contexts on the one hand and films shown in regular, commercial
venues (such as travelogues) on the other, and investigate the ways in which
these views from abroad share certain characteristics. The Workshop, in
other words, wants to undertake an 'anthropology', not so much of the people
and places shown in this material, but, rather, of the films themselves
and the attitudes assumed in their production and presentation.
1999: The slow lane of film history. A considerable part of the Nederlands
Filmmuseum's film collection consists of films that either belonged to the
programme of shorts or were altogether shown outside regular exhibition
outlets: scientific, instructional, industrial, experimental, amateur films,
and the like. Usually these films fall outside the scope of film history,
although one can establish, for instance, stylistic connections with films
shown in regular venues, albeit often with a delay. One may assume that
for a large number of people these films formed a significant, if not formative,
part of their film viewing experience. Furthermore, insofar as these films
did get shown in cinemas, this topic is also an opportunity to broach the
phenomenon of the film programme as an entity in its own right, in production,
exhibition, and reception.
If you have any suggestions for the development of these plans into a Workshop,
or if you would like to do, or know someone who would like to do preparatory
research in the Nederlands Filmmuseum on one of these topics, please contact
Daan Hertogs or Nico de Klerk of the Research Department of the Nederlands
Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Vondelpark 3, 1071 AA Amsterdam
tel: (00.31) 20.5891 407
fax: (00.31) 20.5891 454
Dans la perspective de stimuler l'utilisation du matériel filmique
à des fins de recherche, le Film Museum a créé l'Atelier
d'Amsterdam. Celui-ci concentre son attention sur des sujets relevant
des activités de préservation et de programmation.
Le Musée espère élargir aussi bien la gamme de matériel
mis à disposition des participants que les possibilités d'approche
offertes dans le domaine de la recherche en histoire du cinéma.
Ces dernières années, l'Atelier d'Amsterdam, a eu pour sujets
1994: Les films de non-fiction des premiers temps
1995: La couleur dans le cinéma muet.
En 1996, il n'y aura pas d'Atelier d'Amsterdam.
Pour les années suivantes sont prévus les sujets suivants:
1997: La musique d'accompagnement des films muets
1998: Le regard de l'autre (films ethnologiques)
1999: La voie lente de l'histoire du cinéma (films scientifiques,
éducatifs, industriels, expérimentaux, amateurs, etc.)
Pour toute demande de renseignements ou suggestion, s'adresser à
Daan Hertogs ou à Nico de Klerk.
El Nederlands Film Museum promueve activamente la utilización de
sus colecciones a fines de investigación.
A tal efecto, el Departamento de investigaciones del Museo ha creado et
Taller de Amsterdam que concentra su atención sobre temas relacionados
con actividades de preservación y de programación.
En años anteriores, el Taller de Amsterdam, que busca ofrecer una
combinación equilibrada de proyecciones y discusiones, tuvo por tema:
1994: Los films de no-ficción de los primeros tiempos
1995: El color en las películas mudas.
El Taller de Amsterdam no tendrá lugar en 1996. En cambio, para los
años siguientes se prevee:
1997: La música de acompañamiento de las películas
mudas.
1998: La mirada extranjera (films etnológicos)
1999: La vía lenta de la historia del cine (films científicos,
educativos, industriales, experimentales, domésticos, etc.)
Para todo pedido de información o sugerencias, dirigirse a: Daan
Hertogs o Nico de Klerk.