Life Story Narratives on Amateur Filming in the Countryside
An oral history project in cooperation with “MenschenLeben” at the Österreichische Mediathek.
https://www.ruralhistory.at/en/projects/since-2016/life-story-narratives-on-amateur-filming-in-the-countryside
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An oral history project in cooperation with “MenschenLeben” at the Österreichische Mediathek.
Funding
The IGLR collaborates with the Project „MenschenLeben“ at the Österreichische Mediathek.
Duration
February 2020 – August 2021
Principal Investigator
Ulrich Schwarz-Gräber
Researcher
Brigitte Semanek
Description
In this project, open biographical interviews are conducted. The interviews focus on life and work in rural areas and small towns and ask about Lower Austrian amateur filmmakers’ practices of documenting their own lives with the camera as well as their family histories . The interview partners are private persons who have provided footage for “Niederösterreich privat”, a collection of small-gauge films. They were producers, protagonists, and audiences of these films – each with their own individual experiences. This project thus explores the possibilities of how life-history narratives can contextualise home movies and amateur films from rural regions. The resulting interviews will be long-term archived at the Österreichische Mediathek as part of the project “MenschenLeben”.