FAUK commissioned report 'Invisible Innovators' launched by UEA
Next meeting? 28th June 2021Film Archives UK (FAUK) brings together archives, archivists, associate organisations and individuals who are interested in and committed to the work and development of the UK’s public sector film archives.
For a taste of the material we hold, why not watch our video showcasing some of the treasures from our collections?
The UEA’s report, ‘Invisible Innovators', making women filmmakers visible across the UK’s Film Archives is now available. It has been commissioned by Film Archives UK to explore the current scale and scope of the holdings of women’s amateur filmmaking within the regional and national film and media archives and to investigate ways of optimising their visibility. 6.3.20
FAUK'S next quarterly meeting will take place via ZOOM on Monday 28th June 2021 2-4pm. Zoom invites will be sent to Members in due course. We hope all our Members and friends are keeping safe and well. For more information about FAUK and membership, please contact administrator@filmarchives.org.uk
North West Film Archive
That genius of juxtaposition, Jeremy Deller, has applied his unique and oblique talents to the Industrial Revolution and its impact on British popular culture, curating a good deal of archive film into the mix.
The Hayward Gallery commissioned Deller to curate a touring exhibition and All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is the result, opening to wide critical acclaim on 12th October at Manchester Art Gallery. Working with the richness of the content and knowledge at many local archives and museums, Deller presents his take on an amazing array of contemporary music, film and photography alongside a vast range of 19th and 20th century images and objects.
The North West Film Archive was thrilled to be working with Jeremy again, after the Manchester International Festival’s 2011 commission, Procession, which may well have sparked his interest in the Industrial Revolution. Early film footage evoking the mills, workers and landscapes of the period is, fortunately, well-represented in the NWFA collection, so the artist was not disappointed. And when looking for footage specifically from 1973 to accompany a song written in 1873 about the future, there was an abundance to choose from. All readily made available as digital files of course!
The All That Is Solid Melts Into Air film occupies a room of its own within the Gallery – a very large-scale projection, showing just how fantastic 8mm original film can look! Made with the assistance of BBC Newsnight, who also broadcast a ‘making of’ story, it combines contributions from Maxine Peake, Noddy Holder Jarvis Cocker, and schoolchildren, reading contemporary personal accounts of life and work in this turbulent time. The film and the Newsnight broadcast are on the BBC website, and the exhibition will be at Manchester Art Gallery until 19th Jan, when it will go on tour to Nottingham, Warwick and Newcastle during 2014. Don’t miss it!
