Are you our new intern? By joining our Youth and Media team you will be supporting the collaboration between Doc Next Network and IDFA (assisting in production, research and developing our online media collection). This internship is open to students of media or journalistic disciplines and runs for a period of four months from the beginning of September 2012.
Read the full job description here.
Five young European media-makers have now started work on European Souvenirs, a unique international remix project. It is commissioned by ECF, in the framework of Doc Next Network.
During the next few months, the artists will be taking up residencies in Seville, Istanbul, Warsaw and Amsterdam, where they will work with audiovisual materials from different European archives, looking into a more inclusive and complete idea of Europe. By re-mixing this media, they will review, re-investigate and re-consider prevailing imagery of (im)migrants in European societies and re-map Europe visually, geographically and mentally.
The artists work with audiovisual material from leading European institutions who have opened up their archives for this project: Eye Film Institute (Amsterdam), OVNI Archives and Filmoteca de Andalucía (Seville), Digital National Archive (Warsaw), SALT (Istanbul) and the British Film Institute (London).
The first residency took place from 17 to 22 April in Seville, with Spanish artist Fernando Malaventura coordinating the process. European Souvenirs will come together in a unique live cinema performance, premiering at ECF’s Imagining Europe event in Amsterdam in October 2012.
To check out what the five artists are doing, go to europeansouvenirs.eu to see their progress and results!
Trailer European Souvenirs - click to view
This work programme has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Unfortunately, Facebook does not allow to change the name of a page with over 100 likes. Since our Youth & Media Programme page on Facebook has nearly 1.000 friends (and good friends you are!!!) we are forced to move to a new page.
Please move with us! Our new page is www.facebook.com/DocNextNetwork. We offer updated events in Europe, a weekly Fraffi (Friday Afternoon Film) and news about anything concerning a new generation of European media makers.
In a few weeks time our old Facebook page is unpublished.
The 9th PLANETE+ DOC FILM FESTIVAL will be held between May 11-20, 2012 in Warsaw and between May 14-20 in Wrocław, which will feature screenings of 40 films from this year’s program. In keeping with the tradition, during the first weekend of PLANETE+ DOC FILM FESTIVAL (May 11-13), the festival will be present in 20 Polish cities (as part of Digital PLANETE+ DOC Weekend)
Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival has been organized every year since 1998 with the goal of using the narrative of cinema to raise public awareness about gender issues. More information: http://www.ucansupurge.org/dosya/15tanitim-web.eng.pdf
Prelude for European Souvenirs. European Souvenirs is a major live-cinema performance that will be staged for the first time in October 2012 in de Balie (Amsterdam) and will tour afterwards in different countries across Europe and beyond.
Commissioned by the European Cultural Foundation in its quest for new European inspiring narratives, ZEMOS98 (Spain) has designed with its partners in the Doc Next Network an independant, process-oriented, investigative, collaborative, innovative and high quality multi-media project that will shake up our minds and our prevailing imagery of the places we live in.
For more information: http://www.europeansouvenirs.eu/
Young people are attached to their mobile phones… But do they still use landlines? Is online television as popular as ‘regular’ television? What is the most popular games console among today’s young people across Europe? And what are the biggest differences between European countries in terms of how they use media today?
The answers to these questions – and more – can be found in the first European-wide Youth Media Trend Report (2011-2011), which was commissioned by the Youth & Media Programme of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF).
The extensive research was carried out by the Belgian research centre Trendwolves, which looked at media use among young people aged between 15 and 25 in five European countries: Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and Croatia.
Researchers mapped how young people use media in each of these five countries, focusing specifically on social networks, internet, telephone, television, radio, newspapers, magazines and games.
The first Youth Media Trend Report of its kind identifies different media landscapes across Europe and represents an important step in measuring, observing and revealing changes in the way young people use their media.
Page from: European-wide Youth Media Trend Report (2011-2011)
With this research, ECF aims to provide broad access to exclusive data to cultural, political and media organisations and professionals working on youth and media policies and programmes. The research is designed to fill a gap for the cultural sector, which is often deprived from mere facts and figures, unlike the business sector, in which such research data are used for designing successful marketing strategies and forecasting trends.
Interested in finding out more? Download the report in infographics here.
For inquiries on how to access the full report, please contact mweijs@eurocult.org
On 21 and 22 February, Doc Next Network attended a workshop on intellectual property related to media and culture. This two-day workshop in London gave a comprehensive view of copyright law, so that we are able to understand why copyright exists and how it works.
Central issue how can copyright law serve the purposes, goals and needs of the participants and the Doc Next media collection.
Given the existing legal framework, we analysed the law to see what licences would be the best fit for our media collection. We focused on open licences like Creative Commons, to see why they were created and how they work. As a conclusion and practical outcome the workshop ended proposing, with the contribution of all the participants, we chose the legal tool that can best serve our goals.
During the workshop we encountered a void within the legal system considering copylaw: no legal tool fits so-called mashups or other derivative works. Workshop moderators Eva Sòria (historian) and Abel Garriga (attorney) took the challenge and will stay involved in Doc Next Networks quest for an alternative copyright / -left.
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