The UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Surveillance
The UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (WDAVH) is designed to bring attention to the need for audiovisual preservation and and to promote community building among cultural institutions and archives. Drawing from archives worldwide, Surveillance will showcase a wide spectrum of AV materials, from re-purposed closed-circuit surveillance to surreptitiously shot amateur cellphone footage, performance art to narrative fiction work, and self-documentary “sousveillance”. The event will include a world premiere of the preserved version of Les Girls by Beryl Sokoloff (1980), preserved by MIAP faculty Bill Brand of BB Optics.
Organized by AMIA@NYU, the Association of Moving Image Archivists Student Chapter. Admission with donation to Brooklyn Historical Society; students free.