Media Burn Archive
The US based Media Burn Archive collects, restores and distributes documentary video and television created by artists, activists and community groups. Our mission is to use archival media to deepen context and encourage critical thought through a social justice lens.
"Video is predicted to account for more than three-quarters of all internet traffic by 2019 - much of it consumed on social platforms via mobile and tablets. So how do you make engaging video that works for your audience on these screens, across platforms as diverse as Snapchat, Facebook and Vine? Equally important, especially when you consider that more than 300 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute, how do you make sure your video gets seen and shared?"
The BBC Academy provides "Training and development designed to support the BBC and the wider industry to inform, educate and entertain".
Four Corners is a learning, production and exhibition centre for film and photography. They support new talent to established practitioners, enabling work that challenges and inspires.
“This video was shot during the making of a participatory video in Telecho village, Ethiopia. It is meant to show in 10 easy steps the process used during this participatory videotraining. We trained 14 youth age 14-16 that have no access to electricity and TV to hold a camera, speak on a microphone and do interviews, making their own
film.”
CTA - The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) is a joint international institution of the African,Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the European Union (EU). Its mission is to advance food and nutritional security, increase prosperity andencourage sound natural resource management in ACP countries.
"As leading practitioners in the field of Participatory Video, we have dedicated ourselves to delivering transformational projects with some of the world’s most marginalised communities. We have directly facilitated hundreds of projects in over sixty countries, working with diverse peoples to address a wide variety of issues.
Founded in 1999, our organisation is committed to improving and shaping the use of Participatory Video in all its forms, and building a grassroots movement of practice to sustain its role as a powerful community engagement tool. We have trained hundreds of facilitators, founded numerous community video ‘hubs’ and produced free resources on a range of approaches."
Burum Media is now delivering mobile journalism training and helping develop web TV formats in communities, education and mainstream media in Australia and internationally. This unique digital story-telling concept is based on a set of digital skills that enables citizens and professional journaliststo cross the digital divide, to produce their own mobile stories. They have also produced a book.
Paddington Arts is a Youth Arts organisation committed to developing talent and creativity in the community. They run workshops in Dance, Drama, Steelpan, Singing and New Media and produce original work for stage and screen.
Real Time - based in Reading - offers training, projects, research, consultancy and advocacy particularly targeting hard-to-reach groups and marginalised communities building social cohesion, developing networks and opening channels of communication to enable positive change.
The South London Gallery’s award-winning education programmes offer exceptional opportunities for visitors of all ages and levels of interest to become more actively involved in contemporary art through a broad range of activities and events.
Mouth That Roars (MTR) is a Youth Media Organisation which was set up with the sole purpose of training young people in film production who wouldn’t ordinarily have access to media resources. MTR enables young people who are quite often misrepresented, a space to be heard and a medium in which they can voice their thoughts and feelings.
The Showroom is a contemporary art space focused on collaborative approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond.
Undercurrents had its 25th anniversary on April 1st 2019 (when their first video news magazine was launched - on VHS)
They have recently spent time reporting frontline direct action at Yarlwood detention centre, Nuclear Weapons factories, Fracking sites and much much more. They released Power Trip: Fracking in the UK and toured it all over England in Summer 2018.
They are still producing the News you don't see on the News…
"The Video4Change Network is a consortium of organisations catalysing the use of communications technologies for human rights, social justice, and environmental change. The Network strengthens collaboration between Video for Change organisations so they can better respond to shared challenges and opportunities. The Network was founded in June 2012 in Indonesia […and] aims to maximise the collective learning, resources, and experiences of its members to build spaces where video activists and
trainers, citizen journalists, organisations and individuals seeking to use video as a tool for change, can access resources and strategies to improve their work and initiatives."
Based in Swindon, VCM's vision is "A vibrant and cohesive local community, with the skills and access to create, express and communicate through media" and their mission is to : develop and promote media skills, access and participation in local communities."
WAC Arts provides an exciting range of activities and professional training in the arts and media for children and young people. Their programmes offer fun and engaging creative activities to support young people to develop a lifelong interest in performing arts and media.
[ space ] runs creative learning projects with schools, young people and communities in the areas where we have studios. Their projects develop skills, using creativity to increase engagement in the arts.
"digital:works is an arts and educational charity that works with communities, providing training and creative assistance to produce arts and media projects. We are committed to a participatory approach ensuring that those we work with have a major say in the direction of any given project."
The largest dedicated Heritage funder in the UK. Grants money to people across the UK to explore, enjoy and protect the heritage they care about, including of course archiving projects. Grants range from 3K to 5 Million.
The Radical Film Network is a membership organisation which supports an international network for individuals and organisations involved in politically-engaged and aesthetically innovative film culture. LCVA is a member.
Offers small grants and technical support for young people’s short film projects.
Each year The Big Lottery distributes millions of pounds of the National Lottery's good cause money to community groups and charitable projects around the UK. They give grants from £300 to more than £500,000 to community and voluntary groups and charities.
The project aims to engage current Londoners with the story of the Greater London Council before its abolition in 1986. By retelling the history of the institution, and its relationship to communities and social movements of the time, they hope to inspire people to think more creatively about the possibilities of city level democracy. Many of the film and community projects in the LCVA archive were part-funded by the GLC, which had a radical community and arts policy. The Tories abolished the GLC in 1986.
ATD Fourth World is an anti-poverty non-profit organisation with over 40 years experience of tackling inequality and promoting social justice in the UK. In partnership with London-based artist Eva Sajovic, ATD Fourth World is proud to present a collection of new photographs in the exhibition The Roles We Play: Recognising the Contribution of People in Poverty.
Launched to mark the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, these portraits explore the roles played by those living in poverty within their families, communities and society at large. The aim is to highlight their efforts, recognise their contribution and challenge the negative attitudes often held towards vulnerable and excluded families in the UK.
To accompany the exhibition, those appearing in the photographs have written short texts to explain their lives, their hopes and their place in society as seen through their own eyes. And here is the evaluative film about the methodology we used commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: https://atd-uk.org/2018/10/04/the-roles-we-play-a-model-of-genuine-participation/
This website will be an archive and celebration of cinema action, the film collective formed in 1968. It will contain films, posters, leaflets, texts and memorabilia connected with cinema action.
As well as looking back at the past, we hope the site can become an inspiration and source of ideas for the future.
From the late 1960s the London Film-makers' Co-op, The Other Cinema, LVA, Circles, Cinema of Women, Film and Video Umbrella, Cinenova, London Electronic Arts and Lux, together with a number of other organisations and initiatives, helped build the reputation of British artists' and independent film and video at home and abroad. On the Film & Video Distribution Database (FVDD) you can explore the histories of these organisations and initiatives, their promotional activities, their distribution and exhibition practices, the inroads they made into television and galleries, the challenges they overcame to build audiences, and the arts funding landscape that could cause them to sink or swim (see Scope for more details).
Knowle West TV is a rich archive of locally-made film material first broadcast in the 1970s on Bristol Channel (Bristol Channel was a community cable TV initiative, one of five in the UK authorised in the early 1970s). It provides a glimpse into life in Bristol and enabling us to explore the past, present and future of community media. The footage gives us a fantastic insight into what it was like to live and work here forty years ago.We’ve seen glimpses of things that no longer exist or have undergone major change, and uncovered fascinating films of the Fighting Cocks pub, a 1974 Knowle West Art Festival, a women’s liberation movement, and
more.
You can watch a selection of clips on the Knowle West TV Youtube Channel
London’s Screen Archives (LSA) is a unique network of over 70 organisations with a shared vision – to preserve and share London’s history on film. The network is managed by Film London and encompasses organisations that hold heritage film collections across London, including local and borough archives, museums, galleries, public sector bodies, community groups, and national charities.
The US based Media Burn Archive collects, restores and distributes documentary video and television created by artists, activists and community groups. Our mission is to use archival media to deepen context and encourage critical thought through a social justice lens.
The Media Reform Coalition was set up in September 2011 to coordinate the most effective contribution by civil society groups, academics and media campaigners to debates over media regulation, ownership and democracy in the context of the phone hacking crisis and proposed communications legislation.
They work with partner groups and supporting individuals to produce research and to organise campaigning activities aimed at creating a media system that operates in the public interest.
Their Document Library contains valuable material on campaigning and practical activist video manuals.
A selection of videos related to media ownership, media reform etc (ordered by publication date).
Radical Software was an important voice of the American video community in the early 70s; the only periodical devoted exclusively to independent video and video art at the time when those subjects were still being invented. Eleven issues of Radical Software were published from 1970 to 1974, first by the Raindance Corporation and then by the Raindance Foundation with Gordon and Breach Publishers.
PDF files, opened with the application Adobe Acrobat Reader, can be downloaded and stored on a recipient's hard drive for later use.
Rebel Video portrays practitioners of community and alternative video in London, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, and Zurich. Their work is discussed along with its lasting influence up to the present. Complemented with essays on documentary film and video art, the book shines a light on the video movement in all its many facets.
Artists Videos of the 70’s and 80’s in the UK and Italy. The website has interviews with artists, critics and writers; articles, essays, exhibition ephemera; and of course, news and events for both projects. There is a fully searchable database to aid discovery.
Archive of 9 films from the Sheffield Film Co-op - always an all-women group and although the word 'women' was not in the the title (it became locally known as the 'women's film co-op'). The women asked men with film making skills for support in the early stages but the women have always had creative control. Having a local identity, i.e. not London based, was also an important aspect of the group's identity.
The LUX collection contains over 4000 films and videos by over 1000 international artists, ranging from the 1920s to the present. It is the largest collection of its kind in Europe, containing much rare and unique material, while continuing to grow with the addition of both new works and restored classics. The collection is an active resource rather than a static archive, and all of the works in the catalogue are available to hire for public screenings or exhibitions.
John Crumpton, was the Workshop co-ordinator (and later the production advisor) at the Manchester Film & Video Workshop from its establishment in 1976, up to his leaving it in 1984. Here he looks back on how the Workshop came into being, and what it attempted to achieve.
A project recording the history of Alternative Theatre in the 1960s, 70s and 80s through interviews and the collecting of archive material. There were close connections between alternative theatre and community video at the time. See for example their Inter-Action page and Fun Art Bus film.
C4 screened Eleventh Hour's "We're not mad we're angry" in 1986. This was a unique docu-drama which took two years to make with a group of current and former psychiatric patients who held full editorial control.