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Any old film in the attic? Managing personal collections of film and digital media.

25 August, 10am - 4pm

  • Kerry Writers' Museum
  • Kerry Writers' Museum @ 24 The Square, Listowel
  • V31 RD93
  • Co. Kerry

How do you care for old film, VHS Tapes, audio tapes and other material?

Kerry Writers' Museum and the department of Media Studies at Maynooth University extend an invitation to people to bring "home movies" and other recordings on celluloid film, VHS tape and digital formats to a "clinic" where you can get an assessment of what you have and discuss how best to conserve, digitise, archive and share your collections.

Mike Guerin, photographic historian, author and YouTuber, will demonstrate various approaches to digitisation and online publication.

In association with the department of Media Studies at Maynooth University.

[Photo Jim Sheridan and Ciaran Walsh discuss the Bolex 16mm camera and other filmmaking gear that John Lynch (camera) and Michael Mulcahy (sound) used to make The Way I Remember IT (1978) (© Kerry Writers' Museum).]

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Kerry Writers' Museum contributes to Heritage Week with an exciting programme of workshops, screenings and talks that explore the heritage value of film and digital media used to generate personal and community memories and networks.

Daily screenings hosted by filmmakers will celebrate a vibrant and diverse movement in storytelling-in-film that has a long history in North Kerry; beginning with travelling road shows in the 1920s and continuing at the cutting edge of Irish art and climate activism.

A workshop in "pinhole" photography recaptures the extraordinary heritage of the camera obscura.

Musical heritage features in a short film about a trip to the Fleadh Nua in Ennis in 1974. Members of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann reconnect with the fleadh's legacy and perform a new musical accompaniment.

The Barna Way Organic Farm is the venue for an exploration of a new generation of community filmmakers.

We celebrate the art of cinema with the screening of a short film of the butchering of a pig in Kissane's farmyard in 1978.

Community storytelling - the most intangible of heritage assets - is explored through a film shot in Moyvane, shown in London and distributed though community networks that connected London, Manchester and north Kerry.

The week ends with workshops in analogue filmmaking and collection management/sharing for anyone who has film and digital media at home.

Kerry Writers' Museum acknowledges the support of the Heritage Council, the Listowel Duagh Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and the department of Media Studies, Maynooth University.


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This event is part of a project supported under the Heritage Council's grants programme in 2024

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