Welcome To Archives For Creativity

Why Archives For Creativity?

Moving images are central to literacy today. They are transforming how we learn, how we play and how we communicate. We draw on television and film to inform our ideas and our vocabulary. But the rich works of the past are still locked up in archives, for use by the few. By using new technology and new business models we can combine preservation for the future with access for the public today. Moving images will become a source of ideas, creativity and stimulation alongside books and the written word.

About Archives For Creativity

Archives for Creativity works with broadcasting, film, museums and archives in the UK and around the world. It provides strategic development, editorial and technical advice to support public access to collections. Archives for Creativity’s lead consultant is Dr Paul Gerhardt.

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The Latest...

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John Akomfrah’s archive tone poem

Mnemosyne opened at The Public in West Bromwich in mid January and has been received with great acclaim.  Ken Russell in The Times described it as “a mind-blowing film that merges documentary and artistic essay in a way that astonishes, confounds and moves”.  For the New Statesman it was “hauntingly mournful, crisply original and utterly seductive”.  Sight and Sound said it was “a focused, intense and visually gorgeous single-screen work”.  John Akomfrah has shown us a way to see familiar and unfamiliar archive in a fresh new light.  Londoners will get a chance to see Mnemosyne at the BFI Southbank in July.  The film is the outcome of Exploring Archives, part of the Made in England season from the BBC and the Arts Council, and project managed by Archives for Creativity.