the long awaited visit to the Box 14 members made the journey full itinerary iinc supper at The Tresury tour Back row: Matt Lee (IWM), Brent Woods (YFA/NEFA) Row 2 : James Gibbs (The Box), Sue Todd (BFI) Jilly Payne (The Box), Nick Gladden (NWFA) Middle Row : tbxc (The Box), Mark Knights (Beaulieu) Jane Jarvis (FAUK), Sonji Clarke (CineLab) Row 4 : Claire Skinner (The Box), Frank Gray (SASE (Retired)), Zoe Viney (WFSA), Jane King (SASE) Front row: Angela Graham (EAFA), Clare Watson (MACE), Heather Needham (WFSA), Iola Baines (NASSW)     ..read more

Cost of Living – A timely archive film with an uncanny sense of déjà vu A film featuring archive film launches online on World Day of Social Justice – Monday 20 February 2023, the result of a partnership between York St John University and Yorkshire and North East Film Archives to highlight social issues of the past that feel uncomfortably contemporary   *   “How does it feel to be homeless? Terrible. You know, I never thought it would happen to me.”   *   “We have cut down. We have!”   *   “I’ll make do without during the week, in order to be able to get three s ..read more

Footage from Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive adds to a fascinating mix of poetry and music. A Silent War began as a series of poems written during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. What poet, Ross Thompson has created is a new kind of war poetry, encountering the existential threat posed by the virus as previous generations would have responded to military conflicts. Ross Thompson invited other poets and writers to collaborate with him by making recordings of this suite of poems, reaching out at a time when Coronavirus, and the rules which were created to contain it, wer ..read more

National Library of Scotland hosts Tilda Swinton at presentation of FIAF international film archive award The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) presented its annual award to Tilda Swinton on 29th November for her advocacy of film heritage. Presented at a special ceremony at FAUK Member, the National Library of Scotland in Glasgow, Swinton was awarded for her work on the preservation and promotion of archive film, film history (and in particular women’s role in it), and the importance of film archives worldwide. While Swinton is one of the most sought-after actors working today ..read more

The Turner Prize awards last December 2021 was a landmark event – it was the first time the coveted award was won* by a collective of artists from Northern Ireland and a welcome return to archive film playing an important part in an award entry installation. Jane Jarvis from FAUK catches up with Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell one of the 11 Array Collective artists and Curator at FAUK member – Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive (DFA) Array Collective, Turner Prize winners 2021 The victors, who received the prestigious prize of £25,000 at a ceremony in Coventry Cathedral, following the T ..read more

                                                      The Little Apparatus’: 100 Years of 9.5mm Film Promoted by this FAUK website back in March,in June the department of Film Studies’ Centre for International Film Research at the University of Southampton hosted ‘The Little Apparatus’: 100 Years of 9.5mm Film, an international conference held online. The event aimed to reflect on the diverse use of 9.5mm film throughout its 100-year history and crea ..read more

From L to R Angela Graham (EAFA), Andy Robson (FHN) Sally Folkhard (FHN), Andy Burns (YFA-Editor/Co-Writer) Graham Relton (YFA/NEFA Producer), Sue Howard (YFA/NEFA Producer), Hussina Raja (Co-writer/Narrator) Sinead Bhreathnach-Cashell (NIS), Geoff Senior (NWFA), Clare Watson (MACE & FAUK Chair)   HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to everyone involved in this very special collaborative production – a fabulous team effort of curators and technicians from across the regional and national archives lead by the production team at Yorkshire Film Archive to win the Focal International 2022 award for BEST ..read more

The UK soon comes together to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s unprecedented 70 years of reign, and the Yorkshire and North East Film Archives have curated the perfect film to accompany this summer’s celebrations. “Seen To Be Believed” is a new standalone 55-minute film available to community groups, cinemas, local authorities and other organisations, for screening during the Jubilee festivities. Taking an affectionate look at how the people of Yorkshire and the North East celebrated coronations, jubilees and royal visits through the decades, it draws inspiration from a famous remark by The ..read more

  The ‘little apparatus’: 100 years of 9.5mm film (16, 17, 18 June 2022) An international conference hosted online by the Department of Film Studies’  ‘Centre For International Film Research’ at the University of Southampton. December 1922 will mark the centenary of the introduction of 9.5mm film to the French cinematographic market.  Pathé Freres first launched their ‘Pathé Baby’ home cinema system on domestic territory in time for the Christmas season, with the promise of a soon to follow lightweight and modestly priced cine-camera using the same narrow gauge, that could ..read more

University of Brighton’s Screen Archive South East has been awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant to highlight the region’s LGBTIQA+ film heritage.   Entitled Our Screen Heritage, the new £130,000 project will be developed by Screen Archive South East (SASE) – part of the University’s School of Art and Media – in collaboration with Queer Heritage South, Folkestone Pride and Margate Pride, and aims to discover, preserve and share LGBTQIA+ films made in Kent and the South East.   LGBTQIA+ screen heritage has not been collected systematically by public institutions because of ..read more