Night Mayor by Guy Maddin

14.04.10
Night Mayor, Directed by Guy Maddin, photo credit: Rebecca Sandulak, © 2009 National Film Board of Canada This mid-week movie comes courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, who have recently posted up Guy Maddin’s Night Mayor in its entirety. In this short, Guy Maddin presents the story of inventor Nihad Ademi, who harnesses the power of the Aurora Borealis in 1939 Winnipeg. Ademi uses ...
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Save the Videogame

14.04.10
savethevideogame.org Can you remember the first console videogame you ever played? If you’re dreamily reminiscing about the likes of Pong, Dungeons & Dragons, Pac-Man, Street Fighter, Super Mario… you may interested to hear that the National Videogame Archive is collecting, preserving and sharing the nation’s much loved videogames. If you want to see what all the fuss is about in person, you can visit the newly opened ...
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William Fowler

08.04.10
William Fowler William Fowler is Curator for Artists’ Moving Image at the British Film Institute’s National Archive. When did you start working at the BFI National Archive and what were you doing before that? It was June 2005, so I’ve been there nearly four years. I trained as a film archivist at the University of East Anglia and I had just worked at LUX,writing a website giving advice ...
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Prelinger Archives

19.03.10
archive.org/details/prelinger One of the key collections of the vast open access resource that is the Internet Archive is the astounding collection of films that Rick Prelinger has been acquiring since 1983. Over 2,000 ephemeral films – home movies, educational, advertising and industrial titles, from a period that spans the 1920s to the 1980s – are free for every filmmaker with a penchant for appropriation to watch, ...
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Lumen Eclipse

24.02.10
lumeneclipse.com Lumen Eclipse is an online gallery space for artists who work with the moving image, where the works are both exhibited online and are shown on video screens in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In their archive, you can find over 250 films that they’ve featured since 2005, such as solo shows by artists including Nagi Noda, Barry Doupé and Bill Domonkos and group shows ...
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AV Festival 10: Recycled Film Symposium

10.02.10
Rick Prelinger, Pile of Orphan Films, from Industrial Marketing, October 1950 Dates: 11 – 12 March | Location: Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle This national symposium brings together leading film organisations, filmmakers, artists and archivists to discuss online access to film archives and the creative use of this material in the digital age. Film is a crucial part of our heritage, however, online access to archives is limited especially ...
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Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas on Collapse

28.10.09
B.Abbas and R.Abou-Rahme, Collapse (video still), single channel DV (2009), image courtesy of the artists Palestinian artists Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas spoke to APEngine about their sound and video installation, Collapse, which was exhibited at The Delfina Foundation, London, earlier this year as a work-in-progress. Can you explain what Collapse is for someone who hasn’t seen the piece? Collapse is a sound and video installation, which uses ...
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