NNAQH Webinar: Queering Nordic Film Heritage Feb 13

Dagmar Brunow, Professor in Film Studies, will discuss the following questions:

How do film and video archives in the Nordic countries deal with LGBTQI+ pasts in audiovisual heritage? What are the current challenges these archives are facing when preserving audiovisual material? Looking at feature films, documentary footage, experimental works & home movies, this talk will give an overview over processes of collecting, cataloguing, and creating access to films and videos. Drawing on cases from both national film institutes and minor archives, such as SAQMI – The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images, I argue for the need to reflect on the vulnerability of LGBTQI+ persons in the public sphere. Archivists need to navigate the ambivalence of visibility.

Dagmar Brunow is professor of film studies at Linnaeus University. Her research centres on archives and audiovisual heritage, cultural memory, documentary filmmaking as well as feminist and queer experimental filmmaking and video practice. She is the author of Remediating Transcultural Memory: Documentary Filmmaking as Archival Intervention (2015), editor of Stuart Hall. Aktivismus, Pop & Politik (2015), co-editor of Queer Cinema (2018, with S. Dickel), and a special issue on archiving for Frauen & Film (2024, with K. Müller). Her research projects on audiovisual memories and digitisation “The Lost Heritage: Improving Collaborations between Digital Film Archives (2021-2024) and “The Cultural Heritage of Moving Images” (2016-2018) have been funded by the Swedish Research Council.  She collaborates with SAQMI (Gothenburg), filmform (Stockholm), and bildwechsel (Hamburg), and has been part of the programming committee for the Hamburg Queer Film Festival.

Register for the webinar before Feb 13, 1 PM, at NNAQH Webinar: Queering Nordic Film Heritage (directs to another website)