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2015 FIAF Congress Symposium, Sydney, April 14th Digitizing analogue collections selection and curatorial policies - Jon Wengstrm Curator of Archival Film Collections The Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm 1 Background 2011


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2015 FIAF Congress Symposium, Sydney, April 14th

Digitizing analogue collections – selection and curatorial policies

  • Jon Wengström

Curator of Archival Film Collections The Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm

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Background

  • 2011 – Lobbying for additional funding
  • 2012 – Existing funding re-allocated to get going
  • 2013 – Seminar (April)
  • 2013 – Additional funding granted (September)
  • 2014 – SEK 40M (approx 4,2M Euros) to digitize

500 films in five years

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Background (cont)

  • Digitization done in-house
  • curatorial reasons
  • financial reasons
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How additional funding was used

  • Equipment
  • Grading stations
  • Sound transfer facilities
  • Workflow set-up (SAN etc)
  • Image scanning done at external facility
  • Staff
  • Grading (3)
  • Image restoration (1)
  • Sound transfer, restoration, synching (2)
  • Digital archiving (1)
  • Selection of elements, preparation, scanning (2)
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Selection criteria

Number of films subject of digitization

  • 2,500 feature-length titles
  • 6,000 short films
  • International co-productions
  • Unique non-Swedish holdings
  • Selection….
  • ….or order of priority?
  • 100 films a year = 40 years
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Selection criteria

  • National films
  • Appropriate source elements
  • Children & Youth (directive from government)
  • Variation of
  • Periods
  • Genres
  • Rights holders
  • Films with uncertain legal status?
  • Canon, revised?
  • Digitized by others
  • Female creators
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Relation with rights holders

  • Agreements
  • Rights holders access to digital elements
  • Archive’s right to use and lend digital

elements

  • Quota
  • Up to 20% of the films made on demand

from rights holders

  • Release or distribution plans required
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Access

  • Plans for access
  • quota films guaranteed being used
  • SFI distribution
  • facilitate agreements between

rights holders and providers of VoD services, etc

  • Access increases chances of

additional (and permanent?) funding after 2018

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Curatorial policy

  • Why a curatorial policy?
  • integration of new staff
  • common set of principles to which

everyone adheres

  • reoccurring issues
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Curatorial policy (cont)

What does it cover?

  • Source elements
  • Sound and image
  • Treatment of image
  • Aspect ratio
  • Stabilization
  • Restoration
  • Grading
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Curatorial policy (cont)

  • Treatment of sound
  • Synching
  • Restoration
  • Approval
  • Digital master
  • Sound master
  • DCP
  • Arbitration
  • Documentation
  • Digital elements to be preserved
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Experience of curatorial policy

  • Purpose of integrating old and new team

succesful

  • Avoiding discussions over re-occurring

issues

  • Facilitiates integration of new staff
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Conclusion Aims of selection and curatorial policies

  • Transparency
  • Further efforts to involve academia
  • Establishing an external advisory committee
  • Guide for staff carrying out the work
  • Coherent and consistent practice
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Policies available

  • Policy of the digitization selection

committee

  • Policy of the digitization of film

heritage Both policies available in Swedish and English at SFI website www.sfi.se/filmarkivet

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That’s it!

Thanks!