Creative Circulations: Access, Presentation and Valorization of Film

ZUMA Film Festival Workshop Archives of Creativity, Abuja, Nigeria: Dec 5-6 2018 In December 2018, Erica Carter was invited by Prof Vinzenz Hediger, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, to join a German delegation to the Nigerian Film Commission’s annual ZUMA Film Festival in Abuja, Nigeria. Prof Carter’s paper, ‘Circulating archives and public histories,’ presented first insights from Circulating Cinema to an audience of filmmakers and other film industry professionals as well as archivists, ... Read more

Translating the Archive

Translating the Archive: The Letters of Lotte Eisner In April 2019, German Studies students at the University of Hull were invited to a one-day event funded by the Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education and the German Screen Studies Network. The event, ‘Translating the Archive: The Letters of Lotte Eisner’, was organised by Dr. Elizabeth Ward and Julia Eisner. Over the course of the day, students analysed archival correspondence between ... Read more

‘Archives of Decolonisation’

‘Archives of Decolonisation’. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Deutsches Institut für Film, Frankfurt, April 29 2019 Erica Carter’s project, Cold War icon, explores the circulation around Germany, Britain and West Africa of documentary and newsreel images of the Pan-African leader and first Prime Minister of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. In April 2019, Carter  presented first insights from the subproject to an audience at the Filmmuseum Frankfurt including lay members of the public as well as Masters ... Read more

Screen Media and Theory Workshop

Screen Media and Theory Workshop: Uncertainty, Turbulence and Moving Image Archives, UCL, 11-12 June 2019 The Screen Media and Theory Workshop: Uncertainty, Turbulence and Moving Image Archives was held between the 11th and 12th June 2019 at University College London and King’s College London. It was a collaboration between three research groups: the German Screen Studies Network current research project ‘Circulating Cinema’; the Uncertain Archives international research collective; and the ... Read more