AMIA UvA

AMIA Student Chapter of the Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image MA programme at the University of Amsterdam. P&P) at the University of Amsterdam.

The AMIA-UvA student chapter page is a space for following and discussing activities and topics in film preservation. Our chapter is newly established this year and is the first of its kind in Europe. It is made up primarily of students in the Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image MA programme (a.k.a. Membership is open to any UvA student interested in developing skills and kn

owledge in moving image archiving. We hope members and anyone else interested will follow us in our activities as we grow our new chapter! This year’s executive committee is:

President: Marina Butt
Vice-President: Molly Bower
Secretary: Britt Patterson
Treasurer: Sarah Vandegeerde

24/02/2025

On Friday 28 February, P&P students Anje Rossendell-Piper, Lisa Brouwer, and Zeno Blervacq will present research on Dutch experimental filmmaker Jos Schoffelen and the archival challenges of Expanded Cinema, as part of Meet the Archive series. This program is a homage to the Amsterdam Film Co-op, curated by Simona Monizza and Barbara Meter.

05/02/2024

Please join us at the Eye Filmmuseum on Saturday, February 10, for “Performing the Screen,” part of the Eye on Art Research Lab’s annual presentations.

As an art form inscribed and preserved in material form, but perceived by an audience only in its temporal, screened format, film’s ephemerality is therefore twofold. The first ephemerality applies to its material decay, much like that of fine arts like sculpture or painting, and often advanced by the medium’s fact technological developments and thus quick ageing. The second ephemerality applies to film’s existence as a projection on a screen rather than an inscription in a material form, be it analogue or digital.

Performing the Screen aims to combine these two ephemeralities. Taking the incomplete and often unidentified short fragments preserved in the Eye's Bits & Pieces collection, splitting them into individual shots and systematically organising them into categories by shot type, theme and style enables a creative reuse of the preserved material. By executing a live edit of the digitised prints, the programme creates a live film-performance on the cinema screen, highlighting the film only comes into existence when projected on a screen. Through that, the programme emphasises both film’s material and temporal ephemerality, as well as the ephemerality of the archive and the cinema space.

For more information and tickets, check the link below.
https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/uva-performing-the-screen/1195165?show=1195242

02/11/2023

Join us for our first screening on Monday, November 6 at 6:30pm at Buzzhouse. We're showcasing the digitized version of Gas Station Art and Culture, a fascinating documentary filmed during 1973-74 while Bruce Gray and his colleagues were on a road trip across the United States. On 16mm film, they captured the intriguing moments of the American suburbs which were later broadcasted on television in the United Kingdom, the United States and Belgium.

The evening starts with an introduction by Bruce himself, followed by the screening. The event is free of charge and you can register in the link below.

https://forms.gle/cnEv7yHnGWdzZc6G9

01/11/2023

Presentation by Will DiGravio about his work on George Kuchar which was moderated by our board members Sam Yang and Minna Li

20/10/2023

Greetings from the AMIA UvA 2023/24 board!
We're gearing up for another year with exciting events, excursions, and other projects. Our first event is coming soon so follow us here and on our other social media to stay tuned!

08/06/2023

Join us on Wednesday, June 14 from 3:30-7 at the UvA Theater for a screening of 𝐋𝐚𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬: 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬

Program:
15:30 introduction
15:40 Las Vegas Parts 1 & 2
17:00 Break
17:20 Las Vegas Parts 3 & 4
18:40 Q&A Session moderated by Errol Tyson
19:00 End

University of Amsterdam Theater
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16
1012 CP, Amsterdam
Free Entrance

In November 1986, UvA staff member Bruce Gray embarked upon his documentary Las Vegas, billed as “A Four-Part Television Documentary Emphasizing the History of the City, Its People, Culture, and Business Life.” Working on behalf of Netherland Broadcasting Company and alongside his collaborator Frans van Barschot, Gray was charged with extensively covering the city for European television. As a former Las Vegan, Gray seemed like a fit for the project, which was intended to focus on “sportsbetting, entertainment, and history” but expanded to include elements of local culture and a section on the area’s prisons. The film circulated via showings in Las Vegas and a few special screenings. The original tapes have been digitized for exhibition as part of Bruce’s work at the UvA digitization studio in collaboration with student volunteers.
Please join us for a screening of all four parts, followed by a conversation with Bruce moderated by Preservation & Presentation of the Moving Image MA student Errol Tyson. Bruce will also share his past photography work on Las Vegas. Presented by the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) chapter at the University of Amsterdam.

04/05/2023

Join us at Ventilator Cinema () on Tuesday, May 9th for a program of two recent films that propose hybrid modalities of encounter to address contested transformations of the urban environment. Combining archival research, oral history, and performance, these films revisit and renegotiate contrasting views of the city and public space and explore the limits of interpersonal understanding. This program is presented by the Association of Moving Image Archivists chapter at the University of Amsterdam. Introduced by Finn Jubak (.001).

Program: 19:00: doors open 19:30: Committee of six 20:10: short break 20:30: WTC: A love story 21:30: Drinks at the bar Tickets: 4 EUR (ticket link in bio)

Films:  Committee of Six (2022, 40m), directed by Fred Schmidt-Arenales Language: English; Subtitles: English Committee of Six is an enactment of archival meeting minutes held at the University of Chicago. The meetings took place in 1955 between community leaders and University officials for the purpose of creating an “Urban Renewal Program" for the neighborhood of Hyde Park, situated in the south side of Chicago. The film documents the process of a group of performers, academics, residents, and activists interpreting the archival documents. The film invites comparison between the language of the past and the contemporary reality of gentrification and racist real estate practices in Chicago.  WTC: A Love Story (2021, 60m), directed by Lietje Bauwens and Wouter De Raeve Languages: Dutch, French, English; Subtitles: English In the 1970s, the district surrounding the Brussels-North railway station was entirely destroyed to give way to a largely unsuccessful urban planning project. By bringing together real people and the actors who play them, the film brilliantly deals with the relationships of power between the protagonists involved in the re-development of a zone with many political and social issues.

14/04/2023

Some of us went to today! It was a delight to visit the lab and the institution. Big Thankyou to Esther Urlus, who gave us a tour at WORM and telling us her experience, stories and the challenges they face.

07/04/2023

Please join us at Eye Filmmuseum (Cinema 4) on Saturday, April 15, at 10:30am for “Come to Life: Movement on Screen,” featuring a screening of:

FX Messerschmidt (René Hazekamp, 1988)
Applied Pressure (Kelly Sears, 2018)
Bala II (Janica Draisma, 1993)
Dust Poetry (Nan Wang, 2014)
Total Body Workout (Keixin Hao, 2021)

Come to Life presents three films from the Eye collection and two videos in order to explore different approaches to conveying movement and stasis on screen. Through camera work, editing techniques, and subject matter, the films and videos consider movement as a source of agency for their subjects.

While Janica Draisma’s Bala II uses rhythmic editing to construct a kinetic choreography of aquatic street sweepers, René Hazekamp’s FX Messerschmidt deploys dramatic camera movement to animate the static objects of a museum display. Kelly Sears likewise complicates the conventions of instructional photography as she explores the somatic entanglements of trauma in Applied Pressure. In Nan Wang’s 16mm work Dust Poetry, fine particles are layered with organic material in a kind of direct animation technique. Actively engaging the audience in a series of head-to-toe movements, Kexin Hao’s Total Body Workout draws on the history of mass gymnastics and exercise routines in Asia, the Soviet Union and the United States to reconfigure the past in a totalized bodily experience.

Find more information and tickets at the link below.

https://www.eyefilm.nl/nl/whats-on/uva-come-to-life-movement-on-screen/909613

Note: The final film in this program involves audience participation and movement.

07/04/2023

Please join us at Eye Filmmuseum (Cinema 4) on Saturday, April 15, at 10:30am for “Come to Life: Movement on Screen,” featuring a screening of:

FX Messerschmidt (René Hazekamp, 1988)
Applied Pressure (Kelly Sears, 2018)
Bala II (Janica Draisma, 1993)
Dust Poetry (Nan Wang, 2014)
Total Body Workout (Keixin Hao, 2021)

Come to Life presents three films from the Eye collection and two videos in order to explore different approaches to conveying movement and stasis on screen. Through camera work, editing techniques, and subject matter, the films and videos consider movement as a source of agency for their subjects.

While Janica Draisma’s Bala II uses rhythmic editing to construct a kinetic choreography of aquatic street sweepers, René Hazekamp’s FX Messerschmidt deploys dramatic camera movement to animate the static objects of a museum display. Kelly Sears likewise complicates the conventions of instructional photography as she explores the somatic entanglements of trauma in Applied Pressure. In Nan Wang’s 16mm work Dust Poetry, fine particles are layered with organic material in a kind of direct animation technique. Actively engaging the audience in a series of head-to-toe movements, Kexin Hao’s Total Body Workout draws on the history of mass gymnastics and exercise routines in Asia, the Soviet Union and the United States to reconfigure the past in a totalized bodily experience.

Find more information and tickets at the link in bio.

Note: The final film in this program involves audience participation and movement.

06/03/2023

Coming in hot!!

We just posted an interview with the filmmaker, Mohanad Yaqubi, on his film, Restoring Solidarity, on our website.
Go check it out using the link in the bio!

16/02/2023

For our friends from INA (institut national de l'audiovisuel ) we have screened two documentary by the Dutch filmmaker, Otto Schuurman. ‘Sacrifice Area’ and ‘Pacific: Paradise in Pain’ are two iconic activist films from the 1980s. After the screening, we also conducted an Q&A with Bruce Gray, who was a close collaborator Schuurman.

Special thanks to for letting us screen these two fantastic documentaries for tonight’s audience and our friends from INA.

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