9 1⁄2 [In-Person Only]
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About
Co-promoted by Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS)
As part of the centenary of 9.5mm, the association INEDITS Amateur Films / Memory of Europe presents a 50-minute montage film featuring 9.5mm amateur films from around the globe. 9 1⁄2 features films from a 100-year span, over 6 continents, from 22 film archives and collections.
In 1922, thanks to the Pathé company, 9.5mm film was born in France. It was the first film format designed for home-made cinema. The movies therefore began to come out of the theatrical space and enter directly into the homes of spectators, transforming them into operators, directors and experimenters. From Japan to New Zealand, from Brazil to Chile, from Congo to Canada, the amateur camera became the medium to capture family moments, scenic travel episodes and the nuances of everyday life over time.
Constructed in three movements – travelogues, interactions with loved ones and experiments – 9 1⁄2 is a visual symphony of everyday life, through 9.5mm footage shot by amateurs from all over the world.
The film celebrates the centenary of the Pathé Baby film gauge, projector and camera, and will be screened during a year-long theatrical world tour from October 2022 until September 2023.
Credits + Acknowledgements
The Association INEDITS Amateur Films / Memory of Europe
Founded in 1991 INEDITS is a European not-for-profit Association with the aim to encourage the collection, preservation, study and promotion of amateur films. It is a network of more than 60 members between film archives, private scholars and film curators that hold or manage film collections and facilitate access to these holdings for researchers. In 2022 different countries like Austria, France, the UK, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic are represented in the membership. Every year members meet at a local archive in order to exchange best practice, share knowledge and research, or to discover films or exhibitions that feature amateur footage.
The Pathé Baby 9.5mm film centenary has multiple strands: a selection of 100 short films from members’ collections entitled ‘100 years – 100 films’, an inventory of 9.5mm films in members’ collections, a series of symposia and seminars, a web resource dedicated to the 9.5 mm gauge, and a feature-length montage of 9.5mm films.
Home Movies - Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia
Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia was founded in Bologna in 2002. A point of reference in Italy for the promotion of private cinema, its main objective is to safeguard, preserve and disseminate amateur films and home movies, with particular attention to small gauge film. The unpublished, private and personal audiovisual documentation collected in the archives constitutes an important and precious audiovisual heritage as well as a vast collection of documents and primary sources for the study of 20th century Italian history.
Conservatorio di Musica “Giovanni Battista Martini” di Bologna
The Conservatory’s School of Electronic Music was founded in 1971 by pioneer Gianfelice Fugazza: the great development that it has been experiencing over the last ten years therefore has its roots far back in time, also cemented by the presence (from 1992 to 2021) of composer Lelio Camilleri, promoter of the transformation of the old course structure into the current five training profiles with a strong creative orientation (Three-year BA Programs in Electronic and Applied Music, Two-year BA Programs in Sound Design, Electroacoustic Improvisation and Music for Film), attended today by over one hundred students.
InMICS
The International Master in Composition for Screen (InMICS) is a joint master’s degree programme dedicated to international students wishing to work as composers for audiovisual media. InMICS was created by a partnership of European and Canadian higher art education institutes and professional organizations in the field of audiovisual creation. This two-year programme gives advanced students the chance to hone their skills, share their talents and develop their own personality and projects within an international, professional environment.
CURATORS
Anna Briggs
Anna Briggs is based in the UK. She is a moving image archivist specialized in amateur and non-fiction film curation, film literacy, archival outreach and programming. She studied film at the Universities of Bologna and Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, and moving image archive studies at the University of California, Los Angeles as a Fulbright fellow. She has served on the board of directors of several heritage and media community organizations. As a member of the association INEDITS, Anna is co-curating a series of international initiatives to celebrate the centenary of the Pathé Baby 9.5mm film format.
Michele Manzolini
Director and screenwriter, his last films are The Train to Moscow (2013) and Il Varco (2019), both built on the intersection between archives, documentary and fiction. His films have been selected and won awards at the festivals of Venice, Turin, Karlovy Vary, Shanghai and DocsBarcelona among others. Il Varco was awarded the European Film Award (EFA) in 2020 for best European editing. He is in charge of archival research at Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia.
Mirco Santi
Mirco Santi is the current President of INEDITS Amateur Films / Memory of Europe and the co-founder of Home Movies-Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia. He manages the restoration and digitization of films at the archive. He is a Doctor in Audiovisual Studies. He was a researcher at the University of Udine and actively collaborated with the restoration lab La Camera Ottica in Gorizia as part of a research project on the processing, preservation and cataloguing of small-gauge formats (8mm, Super 8, 9.5mm and 16mm). He is co-programmer of the festival Archivio Aperto.