The archival cooperation programme Iberarquivos joins the celebration of World Audiovisual Heritage Day today (https://www.un.org/es/events/audiovisualday/)
In 2005, the celebration of World Audiovisual Heritage Day, which is celebrated every 27 October, was approved as a mechanism to raise public awareness of the need for urgent measures and to recognise the importance of audiovisual documents.
Audiovisual heritage is an essential tool for understanding contemporary history. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has been one of the institutions working hardest on the cultural and legal recognition of audiovisual archives since 1980, with the publication of the “Recommendations for the Safeguarding and Conservation of Moving Images”( http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.phpURL_ID=13139&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION= with great repercussions at international level.
Iberarchivos wants to highlight the important role of all audiovisual materials, which can be: sound recordings, radio, films, television, videos, digital productions or others that include moving images and/or sound recordings, directed or not, or any visual element that gives way to history and allows important moments to be contextualised for future generations.
Audiovisual documents are faithful witnesses to history and in them it is possible to contextualise: the cultural, the vision of a generation, historical moments and a multitude of visual memories.
That’s why today at Iberarquivos we want to recognise and present some of the audiovisual materials that have been worked on in the programme’s projects. Different works have been selected that have some focus or axis that preserves history, memory, culture and identity through audiovisual materials:
2019/027 Putting into value audiovisual documents from the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Santo Toribio de Modrovejo in the city of Chiclayo for their dissemination on social networks.
2019/10 Digitalisation of graphic material, audio, audiovisual and documentary records.
2015/062 Stabilisation, description and digitisation of audiovisual and photographic documents in similar formats from the Ex Teresa Arte Actual fund: The execution of the project represented a significant contribution to the recognition and description of the photographic and videographic documents from the Ex Teresa fund. The execution of the project represented a significant contribution to the recognition and description of its photographic and videographic documents from the Ex Teresa fund.
2015/032 The audiovisual memory of Antioquia, a key component for understanding the reality of the region and evolving towards a society at peace: The audiovisual records of what happened in the region contain information that makes it possible to contextualise the reality of Antioquia and the country in order to give an account of the arduous path that has been travelled and that can lead to peace and post-conflict. Teleantioquia wants the history of the region to be projected and, by recovering historical memory, to have elements for a greater understanding of the reality that allows for the development of a civilised society at peace.
2014/007 Conservation of and access to the CRAV Film Poster Collection: The MIS poster collection, with more than 1600 copies, is made up of graphic pieces linked to national and foreign films. This collection is a memory of cinema, design and the visual arts, but also an important source of information for film-related research. It is an iconographic collection that brings together rare material and is also, to a large extent, testimony to a specific historical period in Brazil
2012/021 Preservation and access to the Historical Archive of the Misiones of Araucanía: cataloguing the audiovisual archive (1st phase) : The following objectives have been achieved with this project: Ensure the preservation of and access to the audiovisual archives. Cataloguing the entire audiovisual archive in order to obtain a database that can be hosted on the institutional server for local consultation, in accordance with international standards (ISAD-G). Cleaning of the photographic, film and sound pieces that make up the archive, storage in shelving, which will be kept in their original cases and holders for conservation. Install shelving for audiovisual collections. Editing a procedural manual for entering and consulting records in the database.
2011/030 Rescue of the memory of the new national cinema: archives of the Chilean Film School (1st phase): Organisation of the documentary fund, application of preventive conservation methods to the media, qualification of the deposit according to appropriate international standards, description of the materials according to standard guidelines, creation of a database and migration from original formats to digital format, which has benefited the conservation and dissemination of the audiovisual archives of the Instituto Profesional Escuela de Cine de Chile S.A., made up of approximately 200 tapes, most of them originals and others unique copies. Among them are 38 cutometrajes from 1996 to 2000 in Umatic format, 80 cutometrajes (second and third year), 2000 to 2010 in 16mm/DVCAM format, 12 documentaries from 1995 to 2001 in 16mm/DVCA; 40 documentaries from 2001 to 2010 in DVCAM and 43 largometrajes from 1995 to 2010 in HD-CAM/Hard Disk.
“The image is photography and photography is image.” – Pedro Meyer
The #AudiovisualArchives are history, they are graphic memory. #Iberarchives