Monday, October 17, 2016
8:45am- 9:15am REGISTRATION
9:00am-10:30am WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS With Albanian Minister of Culture Mirela Kumbaro, Director of the National Center for Cinematography (QKK) Ilir Butka, Director of the Albanian National Film Archives (AQSHF) Elvira Diamanti, Drector of Marubi Academy of Film and Multimedia Kujtim Çashku, Director of ACP, Regina Longo, AIM workshops co-convener and ACP Board Member Ana Grgic, and Ryan Roberts, US Embassy Tirana Public Affairs Officer
10:30am-11:00am COFFEE & TEA RECEPTION
11:30am-12:30pm “DIY” Scanning. Led by AIM workshops Technical team leader Skip Elsheimer, with assistance from expert training staff. All participants will be using hand held Lomography smart phone film scanners . This creative exercise will serve to introduce the basics of the technologies that are employed in more sophisticated scanning machines, and to encourage participants to jump into the workshops and activities.
2:15pm-4:00pm REVIEW OF PROGRAM. ACP Director Regina Longo will review the workshop schedule with participants, hand out flash drives with texts and other materials to participants, and invite general introductions among the group.
4:00pm-5:30pm AQSHF archives and facility tour led by Head of Archive, Eriona Vyshka
7:00pm- 10:00pm OPENING NIGHT DINNER at BRAU HAUS
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
All events take place at AQSHF
9:00am-10:30am LECTURE: Intro and Review of Film Technology
Related Resources: – The Film Preservation Guide. The Basics for Archives, Libraries and Museums. National Film Preservation Foundation, San Francisco CA 2004
10:30am-11:00am COFFEE BREAK
11:00am-12:30pm Practical Film Handling, Session 1: participants will be working in their smaller assigned groups, with expert trainers to review best practices in identification, inspection and handling of motion picture film. We will work with both 16mm and 35mm film elements.
Lectures on Vinegar Syndrome and Conservation Strategies for Mixed Audiovisual Collections by Reto Kromer
Related Resources: James M. Reilly: IPI Storage Guide for Acetate Film. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester NY 1993
Dew Point Calculator. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester NY [2008]
12:30pm-2:00pm LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm-3:30pm Practical Film Handling, Session 2: participants will be working in their smaller assigned groups, with expert trainers to review best practices in identification, inspection and handling of motion picture film. We will work with both 16mm and 35mm film elements.
3:45pm-5:45pm Film Projection: Lecture and practical sessions: Led by AIM workshops technical team, during which participants will be learning hands on how to use 16mm and 35mm projection equipment
6:00pm-8:00pm DINNER
8:30pm-10:00pm SCREENING: ANIMATED FILMS OF BERTRAND SHIJAKU with host Stephen Parr
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
All sessions take place and Marubi Academy of Film and Multimedia
9:30am-10:00am WELCOME AND TOUR of Marubi Academy with Eol Çashku
10:00am- 1:00pm Screening of CINEMA KOMUNISTO, Q&A with director Mila Turajlic
Related Resources: Official Film Website for Cinema Komunisto
1:00pm- 2:00pm LUNCH
2:15pm-4:00pm ROUNDTABLE moderated by Stephen Parr, featuring Mila Turajlic, Bostjan Virc, Regina Longo, Kate Dollenmayer and Jovana Kesic of FILMSKE NOVOSTI— one of the archives that Mila and Bostjan used extensively in the production of their films. The panel will also address issues of dealing with difficult collections and engaging with participants to understand what is at stake in former Yugoslav archives with disputed provenance due to dissolution and reformation of countries, and the commissions created to determine patrimony, including both physical and intellectual property rights to materials.
4:00pm-4:30pm COFFEE BREAK
6:30pm-8:30pm Screening HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM, Q&A with producer Bostjan Virc
Related Resources: Official Film Website for HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM
8:30pm-11:00pm DINNER
Thursday, October 20, 2016
10:00am-12:00pm TOUR of the Center for Openness and Dialogue (COD) with the Center’s Archivist Ardita Repishti. The COD mission is to bring transparency of the public administration process to Albanian citizens, researchers, and policy makers through providing access to past and contemporary policy making documents. An integral part of the new institution is a library as well as an archive of the Council of Ministers, showcasing records preserved by the Central State Archives. This archive is now divided according to historical periods in two parts: records created between 1914 and 1944, and those created from 1945-1990 (according to Albanian legislation, there is a 25-year embargo on making state records public).
Related Resources- COD Website and archives portal
12:00pm-1:30pm LUNCH
2:00pm – 4:00pm LECTURE: Introduction to Cataloging and documentation with Nancy Goldman, Head of the BAMPFA Film Library and Study Center, and a core member of the FIAF Cataloging & Documentation Commission. General overview of cataloging principles and their application for moving image collections as well as for film-related collections (stills, photographs, and paper collections). Lindsay Zarwell will introduce the activities and media collections held by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and special challenges posed by collecting home movies and untitled footage.
Related Resources: USHMM Cataloging Practices General Overview
4:00pm-6:00pm LECTURE: Albanian Collective Memory from Prehistory to the 21st Century with Dr. Shpend Bengu, Professor of Printmaking and Multimedia, European University of Tirana
Related Resources: The Albanian Cinema Project (ACP) – Playlist
6:00pm-8:00pm DINNER
8:30pm-11:00pm SPECIAL SCREENING of the unrestored 35mm print of Ballë per Ballë with filmmakers Piro Milkani and Kujtim Çashku. Post screening panel moderated by ACP Board member Thomas Logoreci. This screening is designed to show and share with the public the current conditions of the Ballë per Ballë film elements housed at AQSHF, to discuss the history of technical problems that occurred with the original production of the film, and to make the case for the film’s restoration. Ballë per Ballë is the current restoration project of ACP.
Friday, October 21, 2016
10:00am-12:00pm LECTURE: Restoration Ethics and Practice led by Gabor Pinter of the Hungarian Filmlab (Magyar Filmlabor). This lecture will serve as an overview to the topic, and Gabor Pinter will also address some of the specifics of the restoration projects he has managed for various filmmakers and national archives in his role as the Project Manager at the Hungarian Filmlab.
12:00pm-1:30pm LUNCH
1:45pm-3:00pm ROUNDTABLE moderated by Gabor Pinter with Kujtim Çashku and Piro Milkani, the directors of Ballë per Ballë, and Thomas Logoreci of ACP. The group will address the history of the state-sponsored film industry in Albania and discuss the challenges faced today for contemporary filmmakers who are still encouraged to deposit their materials in archives that are not necessarily equipped to manage the new film and digital elements being created by today’s filmmakers. This is, in fact, a problem for most of the archives in this region. This discussion will encourage participants to think through some of the problems they face as a group, and to take part in this conversation.
Coming soon: Sample reels of Ballë per Ballë and highlights of the roundtable discussion
3:00pm-3:30pm COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm-6:00pm LECTURE and DISCUSSION: Planning a Film Restoration: The case for Ballë per Ballë. ACP Director Regina Longo will present the case for restoring Ballë per Ballë, including the research conducted on some of the film elements by Colorlab and Kodak since 2012.
6:30pm-10:00pm DINNER
Saturday, October 22, 2016
10:00am-7:00pm
BUS TRIP TO SHKODËR, ALBANIA and special tour of the Marubi National Museum of Photography with Curator Luçjan Bedeni. Guided tour of historic landmarks in Shkodër, including the Rozafa Castle with US Peace Corps volunteer Megan Hamilton.
We will depart from AQSHF at 10am, this trip is optional for all workshop participants, but strongly encouraged, it is a rare opportunity to see one of Albania’s national treasures.
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Participants may choose to stay in Tirana, or site-see on their own.
Sunday, October 23, 2016
THE FIRST HOME MOVIE DAY ALBANIA, free and open to the public at Radio Bar, Tirana
12:00pm-5:00pm
Optional for workshop participants, but all are encouraged to attend and participate and to bring 16mm film or video materials from their home institutions for sharing. Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at many local venues worldwide. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community, and to see their neighbors’ in turn. It’s a chance to discover the importance of these films and to learn how best to care for them. AIM expert trainers will conduct a half-day workshop led by Skip Elsheimer and Andy Uhrich of the Center for Home Movies, along with Kate Dollenmayer, Lindsay Zarwell, and Andrea McCarty. They address how to host a Home Movie Day in your home town/country/archives, and more.
Related Resources: The Center for Home Movies
Monday, October 24, 2016
9:00am-10:30am
LECTURE with Skip Elsheimer: Introduction to Video Digitization
10:30am- 11:00am COFFEE BREAK
11:30am- 12:45pm ROUNDTABLE : Participating Archives Collections Overwview with Andrea McCarty, Kate Dollenmayer, and Lindsay Zarwell
12:45pm-2:00pm LUNCH BREAK
2:15pm-3:45pm LECTURES
Jonathan Farbowitz Digital Preservation Concepts & Principles
Nancy Goldman: File naming conventions
Gabor Pinter: Restoration workflow
4:00pm-6:30pm LAB: Introduction to the BlackMagic video station & software installation
7:00pm-10:00pm DINNER
Tuesday, October 25, 2016: Sessions take place at both Marubi Academy & AQSHF
MORNING SESSION: ONE TRACK ONLY
9:00am – 12:00pm LECTURE: Reto Kromer: Intro and Review of audio-visual file formats: Hands-on training with the software MediaInfo introduction to software FFmpeg; hands-on training with the software FFmpeg. (Marubi Theater)
12:30pm – 2:00pm LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 3 TRACKS: 1A; 1B; 2 (tracks assigned during the course of the day)
| TIME | TRACK 1A | TRACK 1B | TRACK 2
(Cataloging Group) |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Scanning Demo with Steve Klenk and Koushik Bhattacharya (AQSHF) | ||
| 2:30-3:00pm | Scanning Demo with Steve Klenk and Koushik Bhattacharya (AQSHF) | Cataloging and Documentation with Nancy Goldman and Lindsay Zarwell (MARUBI- upstairs classroom) | |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Quality Control Workflows & Demo of QC Tools with Jonathan Farbowitz (AQSHF Library) | Scanning Demo with Steve Klenk and Koushik Bhattacharya (AQSHF) |
LECTURE: Nancy Goldman: Cataloging Principles and their Application: Deep Focus. Offers an in-depth look at new cataloguing concepts, standards, and schema; using controlled vocabularies; and levels of cataloging. |
| 3:30-4:30pm | …cont. | Scanning session with your archives materials led by Steve Klenk and Koushik Bhattacharya (AQSHF) | Lindsay Zarwell: USHMM Cataloging Home Movies and Oral Histories Discusses issues in identifying and contextualizing amateur films and raw footage. |
| 4:30-5:30pm | Scanning session with your archives materials led by Steve Klenk and Koushik Bhattacharya (AQSHF) | Quality Control Workflows & Demo of QC Tools with Jonathan Farbowitz (AQSHF Library) | …cont. |
Related Resources:
USHMM Collections Questionnaire
EFG – The European Film Gateway Guidelines and Standards http://efgproject.eu/guidelines_and_standards.php
Europeana Publication Policy
FIAF Moving Image Cataloguing Manual
Filmstandards.org website with links to the CEN Metadata Standards for Cinematographic Works (EN 15744 and EN 15907)
http://filmstandards.org/fsc/index.php/Main_Page
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-bibliographic-records
What is FRBR?: A Conceptual Model for the Bibliographic Universe
https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/whatfrbr.html (links to versions in many languages)
https://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF (English language version)
6:30-8:00pm
SCREENING: Albanian Premiere of WHITE FACES with Filmmaker Gabor Pinter, After Party at Restaurant Delano
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
10:00am-12:30pm LECTURE: Daniel Borosa of Croatian Radio TV Reports on RTK survey of regional archives. The project was designed for something beyond the scope of digitization and preservation only, as an exchange of digital metadata and flow of information, TV and social media cooperation, networking, media convergence, Europeana opportunities, etc.
12:45pm-2:00pm LUNCH
2:15pm-4:15pm
LECTURE: David Walsh: Preservation Policies and Strategies
Related Resources: Resources of the FIAF Technical Commission
4:30pm-5:30pm
TRACK 1
Digital Day 3: Participants work with their own archives materials: separate scanning groups that will alternate time on machines, etc.
TRACK 2
Cataloging and Documentation with Nancy Goldman: Cataloguing exercises: placing information in a record
6:00pm-8:00pm DINNER
Thursday, October 27, 2016
9:30am-10:30am LECTURE: Allie Whalen: “Archiving Exile, Samizdat, and Underground Audio from the Eastern Bloc”
Related Resources: Playlist of Eastern European punk, rock and roll, and experimental music created by Allie Whalen
10:30am-11:00am COFFEE BREAK
11:00am- 12:30pm Cataloging and Documentation with Nancy Goldman: Wrap-up and questions
11:00am-12:30pm FFmpeg & QC Tools Practicum with Reto Kromer and Jonathan Farbowitz
12:30pm- 2:00pm LUNCH
2:15pm- 5:00pm
ROUND TABLE: Where do we go from here? With Regina Longo, David Walsh, Igor Stardelov, Nemanja Becanovic, and Eriona Vyshka
7:00pm
CLOSING NIGHT DINNER hosted by AQSHF: Restaurant Berlin
Friday, October 28, 2016: AQSHF Theater: CLOSING DAY
10:00am- 12:00pm
Presentation of Certificates and Workshop Video Highlights
12:30pm- 3:00pm
CLOSING DAY LUNCHEON: Restaurant Fresku
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