1. Nosarchives is an archive of home movies founded 3 years ago to preserve family films that provide glimpses into history not seen elsewhere. The films show smiles, happiness and innocence from a personal perspective.
2. The films were made to be shared but often got forgotten. Nosarchives works to restore the films, find the owners to get permission to share them again, and bring families and communities together through viewing events and festivals celebrating the past.
3. Nosarchives has had a major social impact by training local youth, attracting film professionals, organizing community events, and reunifying families separated for decades by viewing their shared past. Their goal is to create a universal home movie encyclopedia accessible to all.
2. tutors for young employed, organisers of night for elders, school of cinema for kids, festival
foundersâŠand detectives, how?
You know how much work could bring these 24 image a second little three minutes dusty reel ?
Here is a reel. We archive it, number and describe it, then we clean and digitise it in high definition.
A work already taught by our old trainee to the younger, we are sending registered letters to the
address decrypted (an important legal point), and the trainees callthe heirs and trying to convince
them to find back memories about these forgotten moments, precisely. And finally to sign a
contract.
We have actually agreements with three important Italian universities like IED, Louis, La
Sapienzaand with highschools.
They give us, as in the last year, 35 girls and boys, who learned how to make investigation, how to
describe film footage on the archive database with the help of the authors or their heir, and to build
a very short documentary about the author.
Then the students spread this information on Facebook and Twitter. What a victory!
But as for the trainees, our archive attracts many professional of cinema and archiving, asking for a
participation or a job. This demand a budget.
Now our local social events.
We already found from different families almost three thousands movies only in the little town we
are settled. The archive own actually eighteen thousand movies. We organize meetings with the
elders, old protagonist or witnesses, we show them the movies, taking notes of their appreciation
and enjoying with them these flashes of memory, recognising old friends, old vanished houses and
so on... This definitely help the descriptions!
We organised with them the festival "Bracciano Plays",in which they bring their old games(from
the pre-electronic era!), and teach the children in the street how to play. A projection of their old
family movies illustrates the lessons.
We are also trying to tell the people how these films are made: what is the material, the cameras,
how we shot a movie reel, how to cut and to edit;it is a real discovery for them how much this
material has been forgotten in our days; for example we did some stage with little children of 3-4
years old. After the lesson, they bring at home a 20 cm piece of celluloid full of minuscle images,
and keep it as a jewel!
We taught to the students of Bracciano highschool howto develop marketing of film collection,
spread on the social network, to release press review about the most important authors in our
archive, to manage the organization of the Festival and looking for sponsors.
When we organise one with a competition last september, âIl Gusto Della Memoria", was a
first.Means, to build movies directly from our web site with our motor of research! It has been a real
success!
Images of my mother and father, my friends and myself have been used in a science fiction, or a
documentary.
During this festival we reunify families, we bring back people to see each other 60 years later. For
example an old fiction, "Simenon", has been remasterised and the actors crossed the sea to meet in
Bracciano and look at it for the second time in their life.
What an emotion, for Socrate, this amateur movie-maker, in front of our president of the jury
Gianni Amelio, Leone dâOro in Venezia!
3. The future edition of our festival, in 2014 is already advertised. We propose three international
competitions: one for children from 7 to 14 years old , one for the young from 15 to 18and one for
the adults. The subject for the young (little and big) will be biography and autobiography: the
children will discover images which are not at all their own memory and will have to build a
biography.
For the adult, the subjects will be about the evolution of human conscious: I was once a
carnivore...and much more, or Stranger...and much more. What was in fact sranger to us? How
did our conscious have evoluted? We have to look at ourpast behaving to bring our conscious
higher than ever. How human being with compassion and understanding will respect more and
more our earth and allthe living species?
5- Memory is a big investment
Money is a direct kind of socialimpact. In the competition festival for example,considering that we
are coproducing the movies of the winners, the income for them and for the authors of the material
used is available again.What an opportunity for these amateur creatorswho believed in us and for
the families who brought us their home-movies!
The social impactis alsopsychological and very positive. People trusting us have definitely liberate
themselves from their private past, which is not anymore intimate but shared now.From mouth to
ear they advertise our archivewith their memory, whichcomes from a close neighbourhood or from
the other part of the world. By revealing again these images, they make contact between them,
something they were not doing anymore. And by the interest we demonstrate toward them, and the
potential income we bring them,speaking to each other, they find out how muchtheir images
became suddenly cinematographic, and how their grand father or ancestor became suddenly a
usefulmovie maker. Their family name is on an official fund and it gets out suddenly from
anonymity. Itâs a deep source of pride and very healthy. And it convinces us to go on.
6- The social impact in a world perspective
Last but not least.The investigation will remain the problem. What about the orphan reel, for
example? I mean a reel without author. When we find orphans reels we are also in trouble legally.
We have to obey to what is called the good faith(we have done all what we could to find the
original author), and the investigation brings us sometimes nowhere.
I hope to develop with the Fiat Ifta world members, a project: to build a right investigation portal
to find back authors and heirs and to give them back their forgotten past and their rights.
7 - The protagonists
What is important is to give to Nosarchives a capacity of an ethnographic tool without frontiers and
turned to the forgotten protagonists. We give back the image belonging to whom it belongs!
Means:the pigmei, the bedouin, the merchants of the suk, the chief of the tribe, the child of the
jungle, the horse rider of the toundra , a crowd in Venice or a group of children in vacation etc...etc..
Itâs also for them that we build Nosarchives! No matter how old they are, where they are today, in
the same tiny and lost place, or in a big foreign city, They have this privilege with Nosarchives to
see again, or show to others, the place were they born. A real image of their roots.
And the question is:once only objects and now main subjects, how will we reach them (or their
descendant)and how they will reach us?To reach this aim we should open Nosarchives, freely, to
the world.
The creation of the encyclopaedia.
I want you to realize that the moment you bring to light this movie again and sign a contract with
author, heirs or protagonist:its for life.
Imeanyouarepartof,andbuildinghere,thefoundationof theHome-Movie Universal
4. Encyclopaedia of the 20th century.
The moment you build the right investigation portal(par. 6)you can dream parallely about the
creation of the 20th century universal encyclopaedia of home movies. For, this portal is its essential
and legal guardian.
So my last word will be for people who believes that its time for it.
Thatâs will be a real social impact on the communities in a world perspective, a personal and
intimate universal encyclopaedia, a beautiful secret revealed,a marvellous encyclopaedia.
Manuel Kleidman