{"id":817,"date":"2021-03-30T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kinotabs.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2022-07-28T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:02:05","slug":"film-troubadours-archivation-and-actualisation-of-amateur-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kinotabs.com\/en\/film-troubadours-archivation-and-actualisation-of-amateur-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Troubadours: Archivation and Actualisation of Amateur Films. Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

30 March, 2021. Docudays UA IHRDFF<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archival link to the event.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distancing, which has turned into the rule of quarantine life over the last year, has once again highlighted our vulnerabilities: the more globalised a particular sphere is, the more losses it experiences. Cancelled film festivals, closed cinemas, stalled filmmaking processes, and so on \u2013 the film industry all over the world has proved to be very fragile under these new circumstances. Instead, numerous particular practices have acquired new potential \u2013 for instance, vernacular or amateur cinema. Therefore, a special interactive program of the Docudays UA in 2021 was dedicated to the amateur cinemas of two countries: Scotland, where \u2018unofficial\u2019 films have become a significant cultural phenomenon, comprising one of the world\u2019s largest amateur cinema archives; and Ukraine, where researchers\u2019 interest in home movies has been growing for the last few years. For each of the selected short films, there were interactive subtitles created featuring expert commentaries from a number of invited researchers that will deepen the understanding of every film and its context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is vernacular cinema valuable? Who is in charge of collecting amateur films? How can we watch amateur movies? This is what the authors of the Film Troubadours: Scotland and Ukraine<\/a><\/em> program discussed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oleksandr Makhanets<\/strong> \u2014 curator, author of expert commentaries for the Ukrainian collection\u2019s interactive subtitles, and head of the Urban Media Archive of the Centre for Urban History in Lviv;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heather Norris Nicholson <\/strong>\u2014 author of expert commentaries for the Scottish collection\u2019s interactive subtitles, Honorary Researcher at Huddersfield University and Manchester Metropolitan University;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graeme Spurr<\/strong> \u2014 author of expert commentaries for the Scottish collection\u2019s interactive subtitles, and professor at the London College of Fashion at the London University of the Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The moderator of the event was the Docudays UA programmer, film critic and PhD in Cultural Studies Yuliia Kovalenko<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event has been organised with the support of the British Council in Ukraine and in cooperation with the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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