IN PRODUCTION
Project Title:
Captured By Women: Revealing the Pitt Rivers Museum Archives
Funding Body:
Screen South, The National Digital Archive Fund.
This project has been enabled by Screen South and the UK Film Council's Digital Film Archive Fund supported by the National Lottery.
Project Description:
This is a museum education/access project bringing unseen archival footage, filmed abroad by two women from the southeast of England in the 1920s 30s and 40s, to the museum audience and beyond. This footage sheds new light on collections at Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM), the history of film, and reveals another dimension to the history of British women at home and abroad. We will incorporate the digitized footage into the museum's website and create a teaching DVD adding other material contextualizing British women of the era with the help of the local community. We explore the representation of women and their identities in front of and behind the camera by holding aide-memoir sessions for the elderly in and around Oxford to prompt them to talk about their lives. We will also hold digital workshops for the young and elderly, and a conference opened to the public. This new access to the PRM film archive will create links to other museums for cross referencing of material and stimulating the living memories of our aging population. There is a growing need for digital communication in the community and a desire for access to this kind of material by the British public.
Events and Screenings attached to this project:
Outreach Public Seminars / Digital Film Workshop
Thursday, 10 June at the PRM Lecture Theatre (seminar open to everyone): 12.15 - 1.45 pm
Friday, 11 June at the PRM Seminar Room (workshop for the over 65s): 1 - 5 pm
ADMISSION FREE
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