2024: Centenary of amateur cinema in Catalonia - 13/03/2024
A year of commemoration begins in Catalonia to celebrate the centenary of amateur cinema. The Filmoteca de Catalunya is celebrating with an anniversary programme that invites visitors to discover the way in which amateur cinema has conceived of moving images as a direct extension of individual or collective experience, without any commercial objective, and driven by the enthusiasm to express oneself freely through film. This "Year of the Amateur" includes...
Plus33rd European Meeting of INEDITS - European Association for the Conservation and Promotion of Amateur Cinema - november 2023
The Audiovisual Institute of Monaco and the INEDITS Association organaise the 33rd INEDITS European Meeting, which will take place in Monaco from 30 November to 2 December 2023. Mémoire Filmique Pyrénées-Méditerranée will be taking part in these three days of meetings entitled "Amateur filmmakers: shapes and colours". The programme includes screenings, workshops, round-table discussions, presentations of projects and spo...
PlusSession of international amateur cinema at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Aula de Cinema programme - 4/10/2023
The session will show a small selection of international films from the 1930s to explain a film movement that is still searching for its own history. To speak of amateur cinema is to refer to a way of approaching cinema without limits or commercial objectives. It is characterised by the impetus of countless filmmakers who, from the 1930s onwards, filmed with a small format camera (9.5 or 16 mm), wanting to capture and publicly share a vibrant world throug...
PlusPyrenees-Mediterranean Film Memory at PICURT Festival / June 2016
Next june 22nd, during the 10th festival of mountain cinema PICURT taking place in Ordino (Andorra), the Filmoteca de Catalunya will present on behalf of the various project partners, the website « Pyrenees-Mediterranean Film Memory »....
PlusFrom the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean: South Film Memory crosses borders / 2015
Two years ago already, the Cinémathèque de Toulouse and Institut Jean Vigo joined together to create the web portal « South Film Memory ». The aim was primarily to find movies dealing with southern regions of France that people, companies and / or non-profit institutions were still holding. This operation was designed to keep these films – often unique – in the best possible conditions. The reels...
PlusClips bonus Mémoire filmique du Sud
The Institut Jean Vigo joins the Castillet cinema and the Cinémaginaire network of movie theaters to broadcast clips from Mémoire filmique du Sud movies. Viewers can discover in preview of the program small nuggets about the history of our region… Visit the cinema for a dive in our collective memory (see program movie theaters)....
PlusThe Languedoc-Roussillon region in films
The Institut Jean Vigo on tour look forward to seeing you in the 5 departments of the region to present film sessions dedicated to the « Mémoire filmique du Sud » project. This is an opportunity for us to continue the collect and to make you discover these films long forgotten. We will be March 13 in Perpignan (at the Institut Jean Vigo, 19h 10) and Montpellier (at the cinema Nestor Burma, 19h), 1 April at the movie theater in...
PlusMémoire filmique du Sud at the Festival des créations télévisuelles of Luchon, at the Luchon’s Casino on february 13th.
Each year, the Festival de Luchon gives Cinémathèque de Toulouse carte blanche for an evening. For this edition, the Cinémathèque partnered with Jean Vigo Institute to showcase some of the finest rarities coming from their common project « Mémoire Filmique du Sud »The Festival audience, as diverse as it is usually – TV professionals, locals, etc. – will enjoy re-discovering Luchon as it ...
PlusAn agreement between the INA, the Languedoc Roussillon and the Institut Jean Vigo
On January the 22nd, the Languedoc Roussillon, the INA (National Audiovisual Institute) and the Institut Jean Vigo signed an agreement on the collection of amateur films. In the continuation of the « Mémoire filmique du sud » project, the INA joined the Institut Jean Vigo for the collection, digitization and dissemination of regional film heritage. From March, discovery sessions of the regional film heritage will take place in ...
PlusParticipation in the first Rencontres Audiovisuelles « Images Pyrénéennes » in Prades
The Jean Vigo Institut will be participating on November 24th, in the Rencontres Audiovisuelles « Images Pyrénéennes » in Prades, taking place on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of November at the Lido Cinema. As part of a « carte blanche » entitled, « Pays Terres Romanes, Films de patrimoine du Massif Pyrénéen », we will show a selection of films on the territory from our regional...
PlusRencontres INEDITS participation
The Institut Jean Vigo has recently become member of “Inédits”, an international association born in 1991 whose purposes and goals are the encouragement, the promotion, the coordination of every activity related to the research, the restoration, the conservation, the valorization and the diffusion of amateur films. The main theme of the next “Rencontres” of the association (which will take place in Paris the 23rd, the 24th a...
PlusThe film on film
The film on film can be a very long shelf life, when it is subjected to appropriate treatment. As film libraries, La Cinémathèque de Toulouse and the Institut Jean Vigo are the only structures in our region with the technical means and skills to save and preserve films in good conditions. If not carefully treated and stored, the film holder is exposed to many damage (scratches, dust, mold …) that make it difficult or simply impossi...
PlusDon’t throw film away!
« Do not throw your movies, » is the slogan of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), proclaimed in the Manifesto on the occasion of his 70th birthday. La Cinémathèque de Toulouse and the Institut Jean Vigo, both affiliated with the FIAF, fit into this spirit with their partnership around the cinematic memory regions of Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrenees and Aquitaine. It’s all about (re) find m...
Plus- 2024: Centenary of amateur cinema in Catalonia - 13/03/2024
- 33rd European Meeting of INEDITS - European Association for the Conservation and Promotion of Amateur Cinema - november 2023
- Session of international amateur cinema at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Aula de Cinema programme - 4/10/2023
- Pyrenees-Mediterranean Film Memory at PICURT Festival / June 2016
- From the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean: South Film Memory crosses borders / 2015