Mining the Moving Image Archives

Wednesday 6th November
12 – 1.30 pm
Henry Moore Institute

FREE

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Digging deep into the collections of the Yorkshire Film Archive and the British Film Institute; this exclusive LiL Festival event, taking place alongside the Leeds International Film Festival, shines a light onto the preservation, presentation and potential of film heritage.

Sinéad Beverland will explain how the BFI has partnered with Yorkshire Film Archive and other UK Regions and Nations Film Archives to digitise thousands of videos and television programmes, culminating in BFI Replay. Vividly capturing stories from over 60 years of film, television and video and available exclusively in UK public libraries, including Leeds Libraries, Replay is home to some familiar and memorable moments, and others rare and unseen for decades.

 

Plus, you can watch a special screening of In the Veins, a story of coal communities, forty years on from the 1984 miners strikes demonstrating how moving image archives can reveal the past and resonate with the present. Learn from YFA manager and producer Graham Relton how you can delve inside the archive and hear how In the Veins was created from footage that is available on the YFA website and BFI Replay.

After the talks visitors are welcome to make their way to the sculpture research library where they can view items from the Institute’s library and archive collections established by Henry Moore in 1982 to encourage the study and appreciation of sculpture.  The great sculptor was the son of a miner who grew up in the West Yorkshire mining community of Castleford and began training as a sculptor in Leeds.

We thank our event partners YFA and BFI, who are based in York and London respectively, for agreeing to bring their knowledge and expertise to share with our audience in Leeds.

Graham Relton

Archive Manager, Graham facilitates access to the Yorkshire and North East Film Archive collections for artists and academics, curators and programmers, researchers and producers to reveal compelling stories from the vaults to reach a wide variety of audiences. Graham is also the producer of the In the Veins short film.

Sinéad Beverland

Sinéad supports the roll out of Replay across UK public libraries and leads on outreach and engagement, enabling audiences to revisit and discover UK screen history. Before joining the BFI, she delivered user experience, engagement, and planning in academic libraries. Having also worked with film festivals and indie filmmakers, she believes in the power of storytelling and shared experience of film.

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