FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2024

Since 2022, the FRAME Training programme, organized by INA and supported by EBU Academy and FIAT/IFTA, has a new module for junior audiovisual archive professionals: FRAME Mentoring

Come and meet the two 2024 mentees and discover their projects:

Nevena Popovic, RTS Serbian Broadcasting Corporation - MORE THAN A GAME
Artistic and philosophical approach to the world of archival footage
Working in the archives can become a game and subsequently more than a game and more than a work.
The world of audio-visual archives has endless possibilities.
Possibilities that never cease to inspire and encourage artist to find new ways to express oneself.
Archive, besides being for a long time a means to illustrate past, has over time proven to be a powerful medium in the world of artistic expression.
Different ways of exploring the potential of the footages kept in television vaults, brought them a second life by producing a new and unique piece of art.
Development of an artistic work by adding new music and new voices/narratives to silent videos came out of the idea and desire to break the mold from the current and past offerings in the world of art and archive.
What is the artistic intention?
Breaking away from the constraints of TV formats and social media to bring new experience to "real life" became an imperative, whether in museums, cultural institutions or music clubs.
Creative and experimental approach in the use of archive began as a game to motivate the archivists to be fond of hard and meticulous work.
In time, for all the participants in the process, something inspiring came out of exploration of metatextuality and intertextuality found in the archival videos and metadata.
Working in the imaginative registers led from random words found on old archival description cards to slam poetry and music piece.
Studying hours and hours of silent found footage inspired a variation in the approach and use of old videos: three different narratives are used on a same video which slightly alters with every new narrative. The original video is no longer only an archival video, now it becomes a fiction, a poetry, a drama.
In a word: performance art.
What immerged from the experience?
Previous generations of authors have written for television, new generations use television as a medium to write.

Jakub Hošek, Czech Television - THE REPORTERS PROJECT
The Reporters project, created by the Czech TV Archive in collaboration with the Czech TV cultural website ctart.cz, is being developed with mentorship from the FRAME Mentoring Programme. The series explores the functioning of news services during the communist era in the 1980s. Combining archival footage from TV news with contemporary interviews with former reporters, it aims to provide historical context in an engaging and educational way. Each of the five episodes, lasting around ten minutes, focuses on the story of one reporter, blending archival materials with their narration. The project also examines the specific challenges faced by journalists working under a communist dictatorship. The series will be published online on Czech TV's VOD platform, offering a product that is both informative and entertaining.