Funding & Talent
Digital Film Archive Fund
The Digital Film Archive Fund (DFAF) ran from 2008 to 2011 with the aim of increasing public access to the capital's screen heritage. Film London awarded over £280,000 of UK Film Council National Lottery funds to 13 projects with innovative and exciting ideas for engaging people with archive film. Organisations all over London shared their film collections, through the London's Screen Archives network, and over 105,000 people benefited from the scheme.
The projects supported were:
Black London's Film Heritage
Big City Stories
Award: £17,500
Black London's Film Heritage created Big City Stories, an accessible, high quality compilation programme of archive films depicting Black London in the twentieth century. The project appointed a curatorial trainee who received mentoring and support in developing curatorial skills with archive film as part of the programme. Big City Stories is available for bookings in cinemas, alternative venues, community groups, film societies, and membership organisations across the capital, so if you would like to organise a screening please email info@blacklondonfilmheritage.org
www.blacklondonfilmheritage.org
Fashion in Film
The Kinetoscope Project
Award: £24,945
Six contemporary reinterpretations of Edison's Kinetoscope will be designed, built and toured around twelve venues in a number of London's boroughs. These will contain a range of UK and international screen heritage material, including footage of early skirt and fantasy dances, feeries and costume transformations; alongside footage documenting the local history of the area in which the machine is located. In order to increase engagement and access to the Kinetoscopes and their content, a programme of Blue Badge walks for specified target audiences, and a workshop for 16-18 year olds is in place.
www.fashioninfilm.com
The Digital Film Archive of the Boz Club
The Charles Dickens Museum
Award: £10,000
A multi-layered project that sought to bring film archive material to a wide audience in the Museum's new visitor and learning centre and at the BFI, through a programme of public screenings, film workshops, talks, original research, and educational programmes. The project explored responses in film to the writer and how his writings and subsequent adaptations have shaped our understanding of London and the region.
www.dickensmuseum.com
Heritage Activities Screening Strand
Phoenix Cinema Trust
Award: £9,324
To complement the Phoenix's wider restoration project, the cinema presented a screening programme and a range of heritage activities including an interactive display of screen heritage material from 1910-2010, to be part of the cinema's permanent exhibition; a series of screenings of archive films with accompanying introductions, talks and Q&As; an education programme with schools and education organisations; and a touring exhibition of London venues. Material chosen focused on the area's film industry, particularly production and exhibition, and cinema-going as a social activity over the past 100 years.
www.phoenixcinema.co.uk
Seen on Screen
London Metropolitan Archives
Award: £21,320
Seen on Screen presented a moving image exhibition and distribution project. Outreach visits, participatory workshops, interactive community screenings, and follow up visits were delivered in three distinct postcode areas, utilising material from London Metropolitan Archives, London Borough of Sutton Archives and Local Studies, and the Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, to explore diverse views of the same city. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma
Birkbeck College
Discovering London's Screen Archives
Award: £22,775
Discovering London's Screen Archives provided access to structured selection of new archive material via the creation and maintenance of a dedicated YouTube channel for London's Screen Archives. This fed into an extensive education outreach screening programme and a workshop aimed to train participants in how to make best use of archive collections culminating in the launch of a new compilation of 1950s archive material of London entitled 'London Rediscovered'.
www.bbk.ac.uk
Chocolate Films
Come to London
Award: £17,581
'Thamesmead: 21st Century Town' engaged communities with screen heritage material about their local area through intergenerational archive film screenings and participatory film-making. The project culminated in the production and screening of the documentary film 'Thamesmead: 21st Century Town' which explored the social history of Thamesmead through the memories and opinions that the archive films provoked in audiences. Filming took place across all project activity and was supplemented by in-depth interviews with significant individuals from the area and specialists in the field of archive and Thamesmead history.
www.chocolatefilms.com
Eastside Community Heritage
Disabled Workers
Award: £18,550
Eastside Community Heritage's Disabled Workers project recorded and documented industrial disabled workers' stories by engaging young disabled people from Barking & Dagenham in a research and documentary film-making project. The project culminated in the production and screening of the documentary film 'Turn Back Time' which presents archive material to tell stories of industrial disabled workers' and how this relates to the experience of the group. The film also shows the participants engaging with archive material through their research visits to the BFI Mediatheque, Museum of Docklands and the London Metropolitan Archives.
www.hidden-histories.org.uk
Film & Video Umbrella
Celebration
Award: £15,000
Artist Melanie Manchot worked with a number of film archives in London to explore London's rich history of street parties and present a striking filmic portrait of a contemporary East London community inspired by screen heritage material. Engaging local residents in a series of free workshops and screenings presenting local archive footage, participants were then encouraged to organise a contemporary street celebration which was captured on film. The film was then presented in an exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery with the screen heritage that inspired it, to form a poignant narrative exploration of ideas around history, place and individual as well as collective identities, whilst highlighting the significance of screen heritage in the formation of these ideas.
www.fvu.co.uk
Rio Cinema
Screenings of Home
Award: £8,425
The Rio's 'Screenings of Home' combined footage from the Hackney Archive and home movie footage from the local Hackney community specially donated for the project to increase the visibility, importance and accessibility of screen heritage. The submitted films have been added to the Hackney Archive and the Geffrye Museum is using one of the films in their permanent collection. The collected 'home movies' material was edited alongside existing footage in the Hackney Archive to create a 50-minute programme with original music commissioned to accompany it. A sell out public screening was followed by free morning screenings for the over 60s and schools and remains part of the Rio's education screening programme.
www.riocinema.org.uk
Mosaic Films
London Recut
Award: £46,525
Mosaic Films' London Recut is an online archive remix project, which challenged London's citizens to explore over three hours of moving image archive material from a range of London's Screen Archives and use it to create their own films via a web-based editing tool. By cutting together a simple narrative from the wealth of material on offer, the public could engage creatively with their heritage and explore their relationship with the city in a whole new way. These films were voted on by audiences and a panel of industry experts and the winning films are available to view online via the London Recut website; the London Recut YouTube channel, and the London Recut Facebook page.
www.mosaicfilms.com
CS Brixton Limited
Archive reminiscence project
Award: £13,700
City Screen's Screening Our Memories incorporated intergenerational archive and feature film reminiscence screenings with live performance, introductions and discussions. Screening events at the Ritzy and Greenwich Picturehouse were complemented by an extensive training programme for people in the heritage and age care sectors as reminiscence facilitators and culminated in the launch of a practical guide demonstrating how screen heritage can be used as an effective reminiscence tool to improve the lives of older people.
www.picturehouses.co.uk
Innovision
London Loves
Award: £56,899.10
In 2008 Film London and The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival hosted free outdoor archive screenings on Trafalgar Square. 'London Loves' was two nights of rare and striking archive films, many of which had never been screened in public. The screenings celebrated London and all that London loves and was accompanied by live music improvised on the night by acclaimed pianist Neil Brand and other guest musicians. Attendance on both nights dramatically exceeded expectations with estimates putting audience figures at 3,000 for the first night and 5,000 for the second.
www.innovision.eu
The projects supported were:
Black London's Film Heritage
Big City Stories
Award: £17,500
Black London's Film Heritage created Big City Stories, an accessible, high quality compilation programme of archive films depicting Black London in the twentieth century. The project appointed a curatorial trainee who received mentoring and support in developing curatorial skills with archive film as part of the programme. Big City Stories is available for bookings in cinemas, alternative venues, community groups, film societies, and membership organisations across the capital, so if you would like to organise a screening please email info@blacklondonfilmheritage.org
www.blacklondonfilmheritage.org
Fashion in Film
The Kinetoscope Project
Award: £24,945
Six contemporary reinterpretations of Edison's Kinetoscope will be designed, built and toured around twelve venues in a number of London's boroughs. These will contain a range of UK and international screen heritage material, including footage of early skirt and fantasy dances, feeries and costume transformations; alongside footage documenting the local history of the area in which the machine is located. In order to increase engagement and access to the Kinetoscopes and their content, a programme of Blue Badge walks for specified target audiences, and a workshop for 16-18 year olds is in place.
www.fashioninfilm.com
The Digital Film Archive of the Boz Club
The Charles Dickens Museum
Award: £10,000
A multi-layered project that sought to bring film archive material to a wide audience in the Museum's new visitor and learning centre and at the BFI, through a programme of public screenings, film workshops, talks, original research, and educational programmes. The project explored responses in film to the writer and how his writings and subsequent adaptations have shaped our understanding of London and the region.
www.dickensmuseum.com
Heritage Activities Screening Strand
Phoenix Cinema Trust
Award: £9,324
To complement the Phoenix's wider restoration project, the cinema presented a screening programme and a range of heritage activities including an interactive display of screen heritage material from 1910-2010, to be part of the cinema's permanent exhibition; a series of screenings of archive films with accompanying introductions, talks and Q&As; an education programme with schools and education organisations; and a touring exhibition of London venues. Material chosen focused on the area's film industry, particularly production and exhibition, and cinema-going as a social activity over the past 100 years.
www.phoenixcinema.co.uk
Seen on Screen
London Metropolitan Archives
Award: £21,320
Seen on Screen presented a moving image exhibition and distribution project. Outreach visits, participatory workshops, interactive community screenings, and follow up visits were delivered in three distinct postcode areas, utilising material from London Metropolitan Archives, London Borough of Sutton Archives and Local Studies, and the Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, to explore diverse views of the same city. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma
Birkbeck College
Discovering London's Screen Archives
Award: £22,775
Discovering London's Screen Archives provided access to structured selection of new archive material via the creation and maintenance of a dedicated YouTube channel for London's Screen Archives. This fed into an extensive education outreach screening programme and a workshop aimed to train participants in how to make best use of archive collections culminating in the launch of a new compilation of 1950s archive material of London entitled 'London Rediscovered'.
www.bbk.ac.uk
Chocolate Films
Come to London
Award: £17,581
'Thamesmead: 21st Century Town' engaged communities with screen heritage material about their local area through intergenerational archive film screenings and participatory film-making. The project culminated in the production and screening of the documentary film 'Thamesmead: 21st Century Town' which explored the social history of Thamesmead through the memories and opinions that the archive films provoked in audiences. Filming took place across all project activity and was supplemented by in-depth interviews with significant individuals from the area and specialists in the field of archive and Thamesmead history.
www.chocolatefilms.com
Eastside Community Heritage
Disabled Workers
Award: £18,550
Eastside Community Heritage's Disabled Workers project recorded and documented industrial disabled workers' stories by engaging young disabled people from Barking & Dagenham in a research and documentary film-making project. The project culminated in the production and screening of the documentary film 'Turn Back Time' which presents archive material to tell stories of industrial disabled workers' and how this relates to the experience of the group. The film also shows the participants engaging with archive material through their research visits to the BFI Mediatheque, Museum of Docklands and the London Metropolitan Archives.
www.hidden-histories.org.uk
Film & Video Umbrella
Celebration
Award: £15,000
Artist Melanie Manchot worked with a number of film archives in London to explore London's rich history of street parties and present a striking filmic portrait of a contemporary East London community inspired by screen heritage material. Engaging local residents in a series of free workshops and screenings presenting local archive footage, participants were then encouraged to organise a contemporary street celebration which was captured on film. The film was then presented in an exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery with the screen heritage that inspired it, to form a poignant narrative exploration of ideas around history, place and individual as well as collective identities, whilst highlighting the significance of screen heritage in the formation of these ideas.
www.fvu.co.uk
Rio Cinema
Screenings of Home
Award: £8,425
The Rio's 'Screenings of Home' combined footage from the Hackney Archive and home movie footage from the local Hackney community specially donated for the project to increase the visibility, importance and accessibility of screen heritage. The submitted films have been added to the Hackney Archive and the Geffrye Museum is using one of the films in their permanent collection. The collected 'home movies' material was edited alongside existing footage in the Hackney Archive to create a 50-minute programme with original music commissioned to accompany it. A sell out public screening was followed by free morning screenings for the over 60s and schools and remains part of the Rio's education screening programme.
www.riocinema.org.uk
Mosaic Films
London Recut
Award: £46,525
Mosaic Films' London Recut is an online archive remix project, which challenged London's citizens to explore over three hours of moving image archive material from a range of London's Screen Archives and use it to create their own films via a web-based editing tool. By cutting together a simple narrative from the wealth of material on offer, the public could engage creatively with their heritage and explore their relationship with the city in a whole new way. These films were voted on by audiences and a panel of industry experts and the winning films are available to view online via the London Recut website; the London Recut YouTube channel, and the London Recut Facebook page.
www.mosaicfilms.com
CS Brixton Limited
Archive reminiscence project
Award: £13,700
City Screen's Screening Our Memories incorporated intergenerational archive and feature film reminiscence screenings with live performance, introductions and discussions. Screening events at the Ritzy and Greenwich Picturehouse were complemented by an extensive training programme for people in the heritage and age care sectors as reminiscence facilitators and culminated in the launch of a practical guide demonstrating how screen heritage can be used as an effective reminiscence tool to improve the lives of older people.
www.picturehouses.co.uk
Innovision
London Loves
Award: £56,899.10
In 2008 Film London and The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival hosted free outdoor archive screenings on Trafalgar Square. 'London Loves' was two nights of rare and striking archive films, many of which had never been screened in public. The screenings celebrated London and all that London loves and was accompanied by live music improvised on the night by acclaimed pianist Neil Brand and other guest musicians. Attendance on both nights dramatically exceeded expectations with estimates putting audience figures at 3,000 for the first night and 5,000 for the second.
www.innovision.eu
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