We are thrilled to unveil the official poster and finalized schedule for the 3rd Global Audiovisual Archive Symposium (GAVA2026), hosted by the Thai Film Archive. From 15–18 June 2026, join international scholars and archivists as we explore critical themes “Outside of the Frame” in audiovisual preservation.
Beyond the sessions, delegates will experience a unique cultural excursion to the 108-year-old Nang Loeng
Cinema and the historic Hua Lamphong Station. 📍 Location: Salaya, Thailand 📅 Dates: 15 – 18 June 2026 🔗 View Program & Register:https://fapot.or.th/gava2026/ (please finalize your registration by 31 May 2026.)
Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen global archival networks. See you in Thailand!
Reminder: the Call for Proposals for the 3rd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference (GAVA 2026) is open! Proposals received by 15 February 2026 will receive full consideration
The conference will be hosted by the Thai Film Archive Public Organization on 15-18 June 2026. The programme and registration will be available in March 2026.
The conference will be hosted by the Thai Film Archive Public Organization on 15-18 June 2026. Proposals received by 15 February 2026 will receive full consideration, and the program and registration will be available in March 2026.
The call for proposals for the Eye International Conference 2026 has been announced. The deadline for submissions is 14 December 2025. The conference takes place from 31 May – 1 June 2026 at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
The theme of this year’s conference is “The Future of Film Programming”, with a specific focus on how film programming, film heritage, and collections connect to respond to changing technological, political and socioeconomic landscapes. The programme committee invites contributions from a wide array of researchers and professionals across various affiliations, career stages, and geographies. We particularly welcome critical perspectives that bridge different fields.
The 3rd Global Audiovisual Archiving (GAVA) Conference will take place 15–18 June 2026 at the Thai Film Archive (Public Organization) in Salaya, near Bangkok.
GAVA is a biennial traveling platform for dialogue and collaboration in the field of audiovisual archiving. Guided by an international advisory board of archivists and scholars, it seeks to bridge cultural, institutional, and economic divides across the global archival landscape. Following the success of its first two editions – in Amsterdam (Eye Filmmuseum, 2022) and Toronto (TIFF, 2024) – the third gathering promises to continue fostering vital conversations and lasting connections across borders.
The Thai Film Archive (Public Organization) is a state agency dedicated to preserving and providing access to Thailand’s audiovisual heritage and film-related materials. Founded in 1984, it functions as a museum, library, and cinematheque. It is located in Salaya, a suburb of Bangkok.
Mark your calendars!
More details and the Call for Proposals will follow in October 2025.
GAVA 2026 Program Committee:
Chalida Uabumrungjit & Sanchai Chotirosseranee – Thai Film Archive (Public Organization) Karen Chan – Asian Film Archive Lisabona Rahman – FIAF Martino Cipriani – Bangkok University Giovanna Fossati – Utrecht University
GAVA Advisory Board: Ines Aisengart Menezes (Witness), Carolina Cappa (Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola), Karen Chan (Asian Film Archive), Martino Cipriani (Bangkok University), Tamer El Said (Cimatheque – Alternative Film Centre), Giovanna Fossati (Utrecht University), Anne Gant (Eye Filmmuseum), Susan Lord (Queen’s University), Maral Mohsenin (Eye Filmmuseum), Judith Opoku-Boateng (University of Ghana), Nour Ouayda (Filmmaker & Researcher), Asli Özgen-Havekotte (University of Amsterdam), Floris Paalman (University of Amsterdam), Lisabona Rahman (FIAF), Aboubakar Sanogo (Carleton University), Gerdien Smit (Eye Filmmuseum), Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art), Juana Suárez (New York University / APEX), Eleni Tzialli (Eye Filmmuseum), Nadine Valcin (Sheridan College).
Eye Filmmuseum is pleased to announce that the call for the Traineeship Programme “Film Restoration” and “Film Collection” for starting film restorers and film collection specialists is now open.
With these two traineeships, Eye aims to build a bridge between academic training and hands-on daily practices. This programme is designed to educate a new generation of film restorers and film collection specialists and seeks to facilitate their transition into the labour market.
Applicants are invited to send in their applications by July 1st, 2022.
Registration for the Eye International Conference 2022 onGlobal Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices is now open. You can access the program here and register via www.eyefilm.nl/conference
This year, we offer a hybrid conference format to accommodate everyone. There is a different registration fee for on-site and virtual participants:
Passe-partouts On-site Regular Conference Passe-partout (3 days): 100 euro On-site Student Conference Passe-partout (3 days): 50 euro Virtual Conference Passe-partout (3 days): 25 euro
Day tickets On-site Regular Conference Ticket (1 day): 50 euro On-site Student Conference Ticket (1 day): 25 euro
As an attendee of the Eye International Conference, you are invited to join Meet the Archive, a public program highlighting recent projects from the Eye Collection, on Saturday 28th May, and the Open House at the Eye Collection Centre on Wednesday 1st June.
Eye Filmmuseum presents the 8th edition of This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice, a public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage. Under the overarching theme of Global Audiovisual Archiving, also this year’s theme of the Eye International Conference, international scholars and archival practitioners showcase and discuss archival practices from all over the globe.
Each of the six sessions will highlight different institutional and non-institutional efforts and archival practices worldwide. Together with guests, we explore topics like film heritage in Brazil, forgotten female film directors from Indonesia, the African Film Heritage Project, the efforts of the Asian Film Archive and the Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association, non-institutional practices in Latin America, and the Cinematheque Beirut project. This year’s guests are all members of the Advisory Board of the Eye International Conference on Global Audiovisual Archiving.
Film, talks & discussion Each session will feature a short introduction by Giovanna Fossati (Chief Curator at Eye and Professor of Film Heritage at the University of Amsterdam), followed by a lecture and Q&A with an international expert on the topic and a film screening. Eye will record these events for online publication afterwards.
From 29 – 31 May, 2022, Eye Filmmuseum, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will present the 7th Eye International Conference on ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices’.
The annual Eye International Conference is an opportunity for scholars, archivists, curators, researchers, filmmakers, students, artists, and film enthusiasts from across the world to gather and explore contemporary professional and academic issues affecting audiovisual heritage today.
The 2022 edition will focus on the imbalance or current misrepresentation of global audiovisual heritage holdings, looking in particular at the alarming scarcity of audiovisual heritage from the Global South in the digital space. We will provide speakers and participants a platform to encourage knowledge exchange between scholars and archivists from different parts of the world, and different archival traditions. The conference offers a space to consider the impact of geographical location, the availability of resources, technical and digital gaps, and different audiovisual traditions. We will discuss archival challenges and think together about new models for collaboration.
The goal of the conference is to broaden the knowledge and connections within the global archival community, leading to new insights on the status of film heritage and archiving in different parts of the world.
The Call for Proposals is now open and the deadline to apply is 16 January 2022. We encourage proposals from participants, archives, and regions that are underrepresented in conferences related to audiovisual heritage, discussing topics that highlight concrete, urgent, practical concerns, and threats to collections.
Last month, Eye Filmmuseum welcomed two new trainees to begin a 10-month-long on-the-job training programme in either “Film Restoration” or “Film Collections”. These paid positions are designed to educate and prepare new experts in their given fields of specialization, and to prepare them to be the excellent candidates for new positions in this competitive labour market. The programme begins with several weeks of introduction to the different departments within Eye. After that, the trainees split into their designated tracts. These tracts are tailed to some extent to the interests of the trainee (i.e. a focus on digital restoration or collection management, for example). After several weeks of training and development, the trainee then chooses a project to focus their attention on. At the end of the project, the trainee presents their work to their colleagues at Eye. Martine Bouw, focusing on Film Collections, holds a bachelor’s degree in Language and Literature (English & Theatre, Film and Languages Literary Studies) and two masters: MA Theatre and Film Studies and MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image at the University of Amsterdam. She has volunteered, worked as an intern and as an employee in a number of media institutions in Belgium and the Netherlands, acquiring a broad range of skills that include digital ingest, book registration, distribution and festival programming, to name a few. Carolina Battaglini is Eye’s new Film Restoration trainee. She studied Cinematography at the Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica (I.N.C.A.A ENERC) in Argentina. She then went on to study Film Preservation at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in Spain where she learned skills such as cataloguing; film identification, restoration and software programmes such as MediaInfo, Cine2Digits and Diamant. She also has experience in digitizing magnetic formats: DV, miniDV, Umatic, VHS; and film formats: 8mm, 16mm. This programme is sponsored by the Gieskes-Strijbis Fund and the Hendrik Muller Fund. Applications for the next cycle will be opened again shortly, so please check Eye’s website for updates.
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We are thrilled to unveil the official poster and finalized schedule for the 3rd Global Audiovisual Archive Symposium (GAVA2026), hosted by the Thai Film Archive. From 15–18 June 2026, join international scholars and archivists as we explore critical themes “Outside of the Frame” in audiovisual preservation.
