Make Film History - Opening up the Archives to Young Filmmakers

随着文化遗产组织将其馆藏数字化并增加公众访问，像IFI Player、RTÉ Archives、BFI Player和BBC iPlayer这样的移动图像门户网站为观众提供了虚拟放映室，以按需查看他们共享的视听历史。但是，动态影像档案材料的创造性再利用仍然存在问题，受到版权法、权利清除和“公平交易”例外等问题的困扰，视听档案部门没有一个标准化的框架来开放这些材料，供教育和社区中的年轻电影人创造性地再利用。年轻的电影人如果没有电影基金或广播公司的大量资金来支付商业许可费用，就无法获得这些材料。“让电影成为历史”网络将通过开发一种新的、可持续的模式来解决这个问题，让年轻电影人创造性地将档案材料重新用于非商业用途。这项试点研究将为网络内的视听档案提供一个低风险的框架，以便与在教育、培训和社区方面与年轻电影人合作的利益攸关方进行长期合作。网络将会问：“我们如何授权运动影像档案材料，以供年轻电影人创造性地再利用，用于教育、培训和社区使用？”这种材料的创造性再利用如何增加社区对隐藏文化遗产的参与，并通过新兴电影制作人创作的新作品来加强社区，反思过去，培养未来的人才？”该网络将建立在创新的教育档案项目成功的基础上，该项目由英国金斯顿艺术学院首席研究员奥沙利文博士领导。该项目由英国电影学院和英国广播公司档案编辑部支持，为高等教育中档案电影的创造性再利用提供了一种新的模式，使学生电影工作者首次能够访问BBC和英国广播公司国家档案馆的档案材料，以便在与课程相关的项目中进行创造性再利用。55个机构已经签署了该计划，允许学生电影制作人将他们对当今英国的看法与他们父母和祖父母辈的档案代表联系起来。该网络将采用创新的跨学科方法，探索数字人文、文化遗产和创意产业的主题，利用视频技术的进步，开放隐藏的视听遗产，供下一代年轻电影人在非商业许可下创造性地再利用；在学术研究人员、音像档案馆、文化遗产组织、电影节以及与教育和创意产业中的年轻人合作的组织之间发展跨部门伙伴关系和创意交流。我们的活动时间表是策略性地围绕具有强大行业节目的地区电影节设计的，行业专家聚集在一起交流思想和知识，结识新人才。我们的活动将采取三种形式：一系列行业小组和研讨会，探讨网络的关键主题和研究问题；创意工作坊，年轻电影人可以参与档案资料，地区档案和培训机构可以在电影节背景下进行创意再利用试点；在后续活动中，通过项目产生的一些工作可以为当地社区进行筛选，项目的发现可以传播。这些活动将增加青年和社区对音像遗产的参与，并将区域利益攸关方聚集在区域档案材料中心周围。该网络将为年轻电影人创造性地再利用我们的音像遗产开发一种新模式，激发有关他们的社区以及边界和移民主题的新电影，为过去的再现带来新的声音，并提高对版权法和创造性再利用的认识。

As cultural heritage organisations digitise their collections and increase public access, moving image portals like the IFI Player, RTÉ Archives, BFI Player and BBC iPlayer provide audiences with virtual screening rooms to view their shared audiovisual history on demand. But the creative reuse of moving image archive material remains problematic, beset by questions of copyright law, rights clearance and "fair dealing" exceptions, and an audiovisual archives sector without a standardised framework to open up access to this material for creative reuse by young filmmakers in education and the community. Young filmmakers cannot access this material without significant funding from film funds or broadcasters to pay commercial license fees.The Make Film History network will address this problem by developing a new, sustainable model for the creative reuse of archive material for non-commercial use by young filmmakers. This pilot study will offer audiovisual archives within the network a low-risk framework for long-term collaboration with stakeholders working with young filmmakers in education, training and the community. The network will ask: "How can we license moving image archive material for creative reuse by young filmmakers for education, training and community use? How can the creative reuse of this material increase community engagement with hidden cultural heritage and strengthen communities through new work created by emerging filmmakers reflecting on the past and developing talent for the future"?The network will build on the success of the innovative Archives for Education project, led by the UK principal investigator Dr O'Sullivan at Kingston School of Art. Supported by the British Film Institute and BBC Archive Editorial, the project provides a new model for the creative reuse of archive film in higher education, giving student filmmakers access to archive material from the BBC and the BFI National Archive for creative reuse on course-related projects for the first time. Fifty-five institutions have signed up to the scheme, allowing student filmmakers to connect their vision of Britain today with archival representations from their parents' and grandparents' generations. The network will take an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to exploring the theme of Digital Humanities, Cultural Heritage and the Creative Industries, leveraging advances in video technology to open up access to hidden audiovisual heritage for creative reuse by the next generation of young filmmakers under a non-commercial license; and developing cross-sectoral partnerships and creative exchange between academic researchers, audiovisual archives, cultural heritage organisations, film festivals and organisations working with young people in education and the creative industries. Our timetable of events is strategically designed around regional film festivals with strong industry programmes, where industry experts gather to exchange ideas and knowledge and meet new talent. Our events will take three forms: a series of industry panels and workshops, exploring the key themes and research questions of the network; creative workshops where young filmmakers can engage with archive material and regional archives and training organisations can pilot creative reuse in a festival setting; and follow-on events where some of the work produced through the project can be screened for the local community and the findings of the project can be disseminated. These activities will increase youth and community engagement with audiovisual heritage and bring regional stakeholders together around regional hubs of archive material. The network will develop a new model for the creative reuse of our audiovisual heritage by young filmmakers, inspiring new films about their communities and on the theme of borders and migration which bring a fresh voice to representations of the past and an enhanced awareness of copyright law and creative reuse.