British Universities Film & Video Council

moving image and sound, knowledge and access

News Archive for May, 2015

  • BUFVC Vacancies

    The BUFVC is recruiting for 2 new posts: Communications and Marketing Officer British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) would like to recruit a ‘Communications and Marketing Officer’ to join our Operations Department. Our vision is to make ‘moving image and sound as important in education as the written word’ and we are looking for […]

  • Moving Image Gateway Update

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,700 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/ Audio Arts Since its inception, by British artist William Furlong in 1972, […]

  • AHRC Research in Film Awards

    The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are marking their 10th Anniversary with a number of activities including a Research in Film Award competition. This is designed to showcase, reward and recognise the best of the large and increasing number of high-quality short films (defined as no longer than 30 minutes) produced as outputs or by-products […]

  • Summer edition of Viewfinder now out

    DocHdl1OnPTRSERVERtmpTargetViewfinder 99 includes articles on MOOCs, Science fiction and science fact, digital preservation and surviving PHDs.

  • Media Screen Roundup – April 2015

    The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. A slimmer issue of Roundup than usual but with just as wide a variety of references. With the re-launch of the TV series The X-Files, there is Trevor McCrisken’s The […]

  • New to Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,650 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/ American Museum of Natural History The Museum’s mission is to discover, interpret, […]

  • HLF funding secured for BL’s ‘Save our Sounds’ project

    It was announced on Wednesday that the British Library has secured £9.5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund for its Save Our Sounds project. The funding will enable the British Library to digitise 500,000 rare, unique and at-risk sound recordings from its own archive and other key collections around the country over 5 years (from 2017 […]

  • New to Moving Image Gateway

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,700 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/ APAC: Association of Performing Arts Collections APAC, established 2015, is the Subject […]