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News Archive for April, 2014

  • Chinese Visual Festival 2014

    7 – 18 May 2014 Screening at King’s College London / BFI Southbank / Riverside Studios Now in its fourth year, CVF has significantly expanded to include the very best in Chinese language independent fiction as well as documentary, art and experimental cinema. The 40+ films screened this year cover a wide range of contemporary […]

  • New on the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,550 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Commonwealth Oral Histories Project The aim of this AHRC-funded project is to produce a digital research […]

  • CFP: EUscreenXL Conference 2014

    From Audience to User: New Ways of Engaging with Audiovisual Heritage Online 30-31 October 2014 Casa del Cinema, Villa Borghese, Rome (Italy) Deadline for applications and abstracts: 21st May 2014 Notification of abstracts acceptance: 9th June 2014 http://blog.euscreen.eu/ Attracting audiences and engaging users with content has become a key issue for archivists, broadcasters, educators and […]

  • Geography, Film and Visual Culture – symposium

    A one-day symposium Wednesday 30 April 2014 Nash Lecture Theatre, K2.31, King’s Building Strand Campus, King’s College London www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/filmstudies/eventrecords/2014/gfvc.aspx In the past twenty years, there has been a surge in scholarly interest in the relationship between geography, film, and visual culture as part of a broader reconfiguration of the relationship between the humanities and social […]

  • Easter additions to the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,500 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ BBC Worldwide Learning This clip sales site, which replaces BBC Motion Gallery’s Education site, aims to […]

  • Professor Mike Clark RIP

    It is with sadness that we report that Professor Michael Clark died on Friday 11 April. Mike died following a long illness that spanned more than 7 years – he had a rare form of cancer of the liver that, for a long period, was held in check by a specialist therapy.  Mike remained active […]

  • Recent additions to the Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,500 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/ Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia: Fondazionecsc.tv The web television channel of The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental […]

  • Media Screen Roundup – March 2014

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. The latest issue of Revue LISA/LISA E-Journal  has a special issue entitled, Documentary Filmmaking Practices: from Propaganda to Dissent. It includes articles on a wide range of films and television […]