„Niederösterreich privat“, Konvolut 769, 769-011, Ebenfurth 1975–1976.
This projects aims at the cataloguing and indexing of amateur and family films as sources for contemporary rural history.
Funding
Land Niederösterreich, Abteilung Kunst und Kultur
Duration
June 2022 – July 2027
Principal Investigator
Researchers
Nora Linnerud (2022-2023)
Tabea Söregi (2022-2023)
Cooperation Partners
Description
The collection "Lower Austria Private" is the result of the highly successful call for contributions of home movies initiated by the province of Lower Austria together with the Filmarchiv Austria in 2013. In total, over 70,000 films from more than 2,700 contributors were archived and digitized.
The films in this collection bear witness to the extraordinary as well as the common things in everyday life and how they are perceived - they tell, for example, of the upswing of the "economic miracle years", of multiple links between Lower Austria and the other federal provinces, of club celebrations, municipal anniversaries or the capital city of St. Pölten. The film documents provide insights into family, village and regional worlds of experience and stimulate research questions about ecological, cultural and social developments.
This project of the IGLR, building on a pilot project in the framework of first 2018-2019, is dedicated to the content indexing of the film material from the 1910s to the early 1990s. During this long period, filming was able to establish itself as a documentary practice, first among privileged groups and later, with the "Super 8" format, among ever larger segments of the population.
The digital catalog that is being created should make it possible to quickly obtain information about content within the extensive film collection and to be able to find targeted films on specific topics, places and events. "Your films make history" was the motto of the collection call. The catalog is intended to help bring this idea to life and form the basis for research activities and cultural projects on the films' motifs and modes of representation. Another goal of the project is to deepen networking and exchange processes with national and international experts in the field of collecting and researching amateur films/home movies, among others by participating in the European Rural History Film Association.
For more informations: https://noe-privat.at/de/
