External Site: Eye Film Institute Netherlands[info]
The national Dutch film centre for film culture and heritage has a broad mission, covering film education, supporting the industry, film restoration, promotion and marketing. To open up its collections to as wide an audience as possible it has an ongoing digitisation programme. The Scene Machine aims to let the viewer explore the archive in an intuitive way, presenting film fragments clustered around themes and keywords, which can then be juxtaposed, filtered, combined and saved. It’s an interesting approach which aims to encourage a more interactive approach to the material without sacrificing the films’ archival and historical importance.