1. Exhibition: Life in motion
  2. Credits
Exhibition

Life in motion

Credits

This exhibition was created as part of the project CRAFTED that focuses on a diverse set of craft-related items and develops curatorial outputs and activities that address the specific material qualities of newly aggregated and already existing objects related to the subject on Europeana. The project supports the transfer of European crafts to future generations by aggregating, enriching and promoting tangible crafts heritage and preserving intangible skills and knowledge from craftsmen and artisans.

Crafted is a project co-funded by the EC under the CEF-Telecom programme.

Project Partners

  • National Technical University of Athens (GR)
  • European Fashion Heritage Association (IT)
  • Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (NL)
  • Michael Culture Association (BE)
  • Europeana Foundation (NL)
  • Museo del Tessuto di Prato (IT)
  • MoMu Antwerp (BE)
  • Palais Galliera (FR)
  • Mobilier National (FR)
  • Museum of Arts and Crafts (HR)
  • ICIMSS (PL)
  • National Documentation Center – EKT (GR)
  • Datable BV (BE)
  • Open University of the Netherlands (NL)

Curators
Tim van der Heijden, Open University of the Netherlands (OU)
Valentine Kuypers, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (NISV)

Editing and production
Adrian Murphy, Europeana Foundation
Małgorzata Szynkielewska, Europeana Foundation
Jolan Wuyts, Europeana Foundation

Acknowledgements
The text of this exhibition is based on Tim van der Heijden's PhD dissertation Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies, 1895-2005 (Maastricht University, 2018), written within the context of the research project Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices: The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The exhibition furthermore draws on research conducted within the project Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory (DEMA) of the University of Luxembourg, funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). The DEMA collection of 202 images, videos, sounds, 3D and 360 degree items is available on Europeana. The curators like to thank Jolan Wuyts, Małgorzata Szynkielewska, Nienke van Schaverbeke, Laura Schotte, Steffen Wright, Chiara Latronico, Dimitra Atsidis, Theodoros Georgiakakis, Andreas Fickers, Stefan Krebs, Aleksander Kolkowski, Christianne Blijleven, Andy O'Dwyer, Gerald Freyer, Jo Wachelder, Susan Aasman, Tom Slootweg, family Van den Bussche, Leenke Ripmeester, Dorette Schootemeijer, Eye Filmmuseum, Frans Hofmeester, Onno Petersen, Anna Briggs and INEDITS - Amateur Films Memory of Europe for their support.

Further reading

  • Aasman, Susan, Ritueel van huiselijk geluk: Een cultuurhistorische verkenning van de familiefilm (Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 2004)
  • Aasman, Susan, Andreas Fickers, and Joseph Wachelder, eds., Materializing Memories: Dispositifs, Generations, Amateurs (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
  • Aasman, Susan, Tim van der Heijden, and Tom Slootweg, ‘Amateurism: Exploring its Multiple Meanings in the Age of Film, Video, and Digital Media’, in Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age, ed. by Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer, and Christian Schwarzenegger (Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2021), pp. 245–65 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740202-014
  • Ishizuka, Karen L., and Patricia R. Zimmermann, eds., Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008)
  • Kattelle, Alan, Home Movies: A History of the American Industry, 1897-1979 (Nashua, N.H.: Transition Pub., 2000)
  • McNamara, Martha J., and Karan Sheldon, eds., Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960 (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2017)
  • Motrescu-Mayes, Annamaria, and Susan Aasman, Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures: Film, Video, and Digital Media (London: Routledge, 2019)
  • Newman, Michael Z., Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)
  • Odin, Roger, Le film de famille: usage privé, usage public (Paris: Méridiens Klincksieck, 1995)
  • Plotnick, Danny, Super 8: An Illustrated History (Rare Bird, 2020)
  • Roepke, Martina, Privat-Vorstellung: Heimkino in Deutschland vor 1945 (Hildesheim: G. Olms, 2006)
  • Salazkina, Masha, and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez, eds., Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021)
  • Schneider, Alexandra, Die Stars sind wir: Heimkino als filmische Praxis (Marburg: Schüren, 2004)
  • Shand, Ryan, Amateur Cinema: History, Theory and Genre (1930-80) (Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2007)
  • Slootweg, Tom, Resistance, Disruption and Belonging: Electronic Video in Three Amateur Modes (Groningen: University of Groningen, 2018)
  • Strangelove, Michael, Watching YouTube: Extraordinary Videos by Ordinary People (Toronto; Buffalo [N.Y.]: University of Toronto Press, 2010)
  • Tepperman, Charles, Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Movie Making, 1923-1960 (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015)
  • Turquety, Benoît, Inventing Cinema: Machine, Gestures and Media History (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019)
  • van der Heijden, Tim, Hybrid Histories: Technologies of Memory and the Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies, 1895-2005 (Maastricht: Maastricht University, 2018)
  • van der Heijden, Tim, ‘Technologies of Memory: Amateur Storage Media and Home Movie Practices in the Longue Durée’, Le Temps Des Médias, 39(2) (2022), 141-159 https://doi.org/10.3917/tdm.039.0141
  • van der Heijden, Tim, and Aleksander Kolkowski, Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799767
  • Vignaux, Valérie, and Benoît Turquety, eds., L’amateur En Cinéma: Un Autre Paradigme: Histoire, Esthétique, Marges et Institutions (Paris: Afrhc, 2017)
  • Wasson, Haidee, Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2020)
  • Zimmermann, Patricia R., Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995)

Online resources

Amateur Movie Database (AMDB)
https://www.amateurcinema.org/

Amateurfilm Platform
https://www.amateurfilmplatform.nl/

Center for Home Movies (CHM)
https://www.centerforhomemovies.org/

Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia in Bologna
https://homemovies.it/

INEDITS Association - Amateur Film / Memory of Europe
http://en.inedits-europe.org/

Prelinger Archives Home Movies
https://archive.org/details/prelingerhomemovies

Re-framing Home Movies Association
https://www.reframinghomemovies.it/

Stichting Amateurfilm
http://www.stichtingamateurfilm.nl/

Super 8 TV
https://www.super8.tv/en/

TECHNÈS Encyclopedia of Film Techniques and Technologies
http://encyclo-technes.org/en

The Optilogue: Studies in Popular Optical Media
https://theoptilogue.wordpress.com/

Timeline of Historical Film Colors - University of Zürich
https://filmcolors.org/

Film labs

ANDEC Filmtechnik (Berlin)
https://www.andecfilm.de/

Click und Surr (Berlin)
https://clickundsurr.de/en/

Onno Petersen cinematography & postproduction (Amsterdam)
https://www.onnopetersen.com/

Super8 Reversal Lab (The Hague)
https://super8.nl/en/homepage/