GAMA Gateway to archives of media art
GAMA will establish a central platform to enable multilingual, facilitated and user-orientated access to a significant number of media art archives and their digitalized content. The consortium comprises of a majority of the most important digital content holders for media art in Europe. GAMA hopefully will quickly develop to be the European central online interface and search portal for any person interested in media art. The consortium includes highly qualified technical partners with vast expertise in the field of digital media art archives. Filmform is the only nordic organisation participating in the GAMA project.

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MERA - svensk experimentell film och video
Med Access-stöd från Kulturrådet genomför Filmform arkivprojektet “MERA - svensk experimentell film och video” april 2006 – mars 2007.
Projektet syftar till ökad tillgänglighet av svensk experimentfilm och videokonst genom effektiviserad arkivering och restaurering av ett förgängligt material – en unik del av den svenska rörliga bildens historia och tillgängliggörande av densamma genom förbättrad distribution. Allt detta är dessutom framtida forskningsmaterial som måste bevaras precis som måleri, skulptur och fotografi såsom sker på museerna.
Projektet integreras per automatik i Filmforms ordinarie verksamhet. All data som under projektet förts in kommer att finnas tillgängligt för forskning samt i större utsträckning än förut för en större publik, både svensk och internationell, då valda delar av den nya databasen kommer att publiceras på Filmform hemsida.
SLBA – Statens Ljud- och Bildarkiv har varit behjälpliga med sin samlade kunskap om bibliografiska grundstrukturer samt tekniska resurser. SLBA har bidragit med värdefulla kunskaper i samband med utveckling av Filmforms nya databas. SLBA har under tiden juni 2006-januari 2008 med Access-medel placerat en heltidsanställd registrator på Filmform.
Projektperiod: april 2006 - april 2007

Hit The North
A distribution project of experimental film and video art from the nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. All works can be rented for screenings and exhibitions. Preview material can be ordered from Filmform. Please contact us at: info[at]filmform.com or give us a call at: + 46 8 651 84 26

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PROJECT FILM RE:FORM
The aim of this project is to bring out a unique collection of works by Swedish pioneers in experimental film and video art, both classics and unexplored material. The intention is to render possible contemporary reflection and to spread knowledge, in Sweden and internationally, and to make use of the latest technology to achieve this end.

Filmform and its archive are a unique foundation of information and a source of inspiration for curators, researchers, students, artists and filmmakers. There has been an increasing demand the last few years, both in Sweden, and internationally. The growing interest in the moving image within contemporary art has given topical interest to historical works of art. It is, therefore, relevant and of great immediate interest to bring forward a number of films and video works, and to re-establish the historical connection.

The strength of the Filmform archive is that it covers both earlier material and has a contemporary, forever growing, collection. Today there are not, however, enough intact screening copies for distribution. Through inventory, restoration, new film prints, high quality scanning and the release of classics on DVD the history of Swedish experimental film will be brought into the light. This has to be done NOW, before the original material is destroyed. Filmform wants to respond to the great interest shown, in Sweden and internationally, by diffusing knowledge and extending the availability of this unique material.

Facts about films and video works made accessible through this project will be added to the database at www.filmform.com.

The project FILM RE:FORM is financed with support from The Foundation for the Culture of the Future in collaboration with The Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images and The Swedish Film Institute.

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