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Stay tuned for our upcoming books on data and power in the field of cultural heritage, on plurality and disambiguation in the context of data-based research, and on situated film histories and data visualization - published with the excellent meson press✨ 🎬 📚

#FeministFilmHistory #MediaStudies #DH #Metadata #WomenAndFilm

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DAVIF Oct 28, 2025

Passend dazu eröffnet am Freitag die von Gerlinde Waz gemeinsam mit Kristina Jaspers und Philipp Stiasny kuratierte Retrospektive "Filmpionierinnen!" im Zeughauskino in Berlin!

Die Retrospektive widmet sich dem Filmschaffen von Regisseurinnen in Deutschland von 1917 bis 1932 und bringt einige Werke erstmals wieder auf die Leinwand.

https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/filmreihe/filmpionierinnen/

📆 Freitag, 31.10.2025
⌚ 19 Uhr

#WomenFilmPioneers #FeministFilmHistory #SilentFilm #EarlyCinema #FrauenUndFilm

Filmpionierinnen!

Kurz, frech und kreativ

Zeughauskino

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DAVIF Oct 28, 2025

Mitte der 1990er führten Gerlinde Waz & Gabriele Hansch die bahnbrechende Studie “Filmpionierinnen in Deutschland” durch, in der sie die Rolle von Frauen in der Stummfilmzeit erforschten. Die Projektergebnisse konnten bis heute nicht veröffentlicht werden. Nur ein Teil wurde durch das Projekt f_films zugänglich gemacht. In diesem Interview reflektiert Gerlinde Waz über ihren Forschungsprozess.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17234510

#DigitalFilmHistory #FeministFilmHistory #EarlyCinema #DH #WomenFilmPioneers

Die Sichtbarkeit von Frauen im frühen Kino. Interview mit Gerlinde Waz

Von 1988 bis 1994 führte Gerlinde Waz gemeinsam mit Gabriele Hansch die Studie “Filmpionierinnen in Deutschland” durch, in der sie die Rolle von Frauen in der Stummfilmzeit in Deutschland erforschten und damit den Grundstein für deren heutige Sichtbarkeit legten. Aufgrund mangelnder Förderung konnten die Projektergebnisse jedoch bis heute nicht veröffentlicht werden. Ein Teil der Daten wurde Anfang der 2000er Jahre durch das Projekt f_films aufgekauft, ergänzt und öffentlich verfügbar gemacht. In diesem Interview reflektiert Gerlinde Waz über ihren Forschungsprozess und beschreibt die umfangreichen und aufwendigen Archivrecherchen, die dafür erforderlich waren. Außerdem geht sie auf die methodologischen Herausforderungen biografischer Forschung ein, denkt kritisch über den klassischen Kanon der Filmgeschichte nach, in dem Frauen häufig unerwähnt bleiben und erläutert ihren Umgang mit Unsicherheiten im Rahmen der Studie. Das Interview ist Teil einer fortlaufenden Interviewreihe zu Datenpraktiken, Datenprovenienz und Kategorisierungen in der Filmgeschichte, die von der BMFTR-Forschungsgruppe „Ästhetiken des Zugangs. Datenvisualisierungen in der digitalen Filmgeschichtsschreibung am Beispiel der Forschung zu Frauen im Frühen Kino“ (DAVIF) (2021–2025) initiiert wurde. Ziel der Forschungsgruppe ist es, Datenvisualisierungen zu erstellen, um die Tätigkeiten von Frauen in der Filmgeschichte sichtbarer zu machen. Die Interviewsammlung: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17233942 Zur Projektwebsite: https://uni-marburg.de/Q85oo

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DAVIF Oct 27, 2025

In the early 2000s, Kerstin Herlt managed the pioneering f_films project, which aimed to document the contributions of female filmmakers to European cinema. In this interview, she recalls the project's history. While some of the results were later added to the DFF database, others are only accessible via the project website, which is no longer updated and therefore somewhat hidden.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17234382

#DigitalFilmHistory #FeministFilmHistory #DH #DFF #EarlyCinema #Metadata #FilmHistory

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DAVIF Oct 27, 2025

Anfang der 2000er Jahre leitete Kerstin Herlt das wegweisende Projekt f_films und gibt in diesem Interview Einblick in seine Entstehung und Umsetzung. Das Ziel des frühen digitalen Projekts war die Dokumentation und Sichtbarmachung von Filmemacherinnen des europäischen Kinos, wobei ein Teil der im Projekt erstellten Daten in die Datenbank des DFF eingespeist wurde.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17234348

#DigitalFilmHistory #FeministFilmHistory #DH #DFF #EarlyCinema #Metadata #FilmHistory #DigitalHumanities

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DAVIF Oct 22, 2025

Kate Saccone has served as a project manager for the Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) since 2013. In her interview, she talks about the origins, community, and editorial practices of the WFPP and addresses the platform's role as a social networking space for feminist film historians. She also outlines the WFPP's strategies for long-term preservation and accessibility.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17234442

#FeministFilmHistory #WFPP #DigitalScholarlyPublishing #Metadata #EarlyCinema #DH #DataPractices

On the Origins, the Community, and the Database of the Women Film Pioneers Project. Interview with Kate Saccone

In this interview, Kate Saccone, project manager of the Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) since 2013, reflects on the origins, the community, and the database of the WFPP. She highlights the role of the WFPP as a digital platform for research and publication. The interview discusses the handling of gaps, ambiguities, and absences in the data, accessibility, licensing, and long-term preservation of digital content, particularly with regard to Creative Commons licenses and technical infrastructure. Saccone addresses the WFPP as a social networking space for feminist film historians and outlines future developments for the project. The interview is part of an interview series on data practices, provenance, and categorizations in film history initiated by the research group „Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History“ (DAVIF) (2021–2025), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). The goal of the research group is to explore data visualizations in order to tell different stories differently. The WFPP is one of the film historiographical project partners, in addition to the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF), both of whom have provided their research data for data visualizations. The interview series: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17233942 The project website: https://uni-marburg.de/Q85oo

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DAVIF Oct 21, 2025

In the early 1990s, renowned film scholar Jane Gaines founded the Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP), a digital scholarly resource dedicated to women’s involvement in film production during the silent film era. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the WFPP on her own research at the intersection of empirical approaches and speculative historiography.

The interview: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17234308

The WFPP: https://wfpp.columbia.edu/

#FeministFilmHistory #WFPP #EarlyCinema #Metadata #DH

The Development of the Women Film Pioneers Project and its Role in Shaping Feminist Film Historiography. Interview with Jane Gaines

In this interview, Jane Gaines, professor of film studies and co-founder of the Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP), revisits the development of the WFPP in the early 1990s. Drawing on the term “unhistoricized women film pioneers”, she dives into the invisible aspects of film historiography and how the WFPP addresses these gaps by drawing attention to the diverse careers of women in early cinema. She outlines the organizational structure of the WFPP, including the importance of technical support from Columbia University and the international collaborations with students and scholars. Gaines reflects on the impact of the WFPP onher own research at the intersection of empirical approaches and speculative historiography. Furthermore, she emphasizes the WFPP’s role in shaping feminist film historiographyby focusing on outreach and recognition of marginalized filmmakers. The interview is part of an interview series on data practices, provenance, and categorizations in film history initiated by the research group „Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History“ (DAVIF) (2021–2025), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). The goal of the research group is to explore data visualizations in order to tell different stories differently. The WFPP is one of the film historiographical project partners, in addition to the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (DFF), both of whom have provided their research data for data visualizations. The interview series: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17233942 The project website: https://uni-marburg.de/Q85oo

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DAVIF Oct 21, 2025

We’ve published our interview series on data practices, provenance, and categorizations in film history!✨

The series consists of seven interviews with data editors, scholars, software developers, and project managers from our project partners Women Film Pioneers Project and DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, and examines their databases & #RDM practices.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17233942

#DigitalFilmHistory #Metadata #FilmArchives #DataFeminism #FeministFilmHistory #DigitalHumanities #DH

Sarah-Mai Dang Jun 16, 2025

Excited to be part of two panels on #historicalgaps and #metadata with wonderful colleagues at the #NECS Conference in Lisbon this week (18-21 June):

🎞️ "Gaps, Possibilities, Vampirism: Feminist Interventions in Film and Media Historiographical Narratives”
📽️ “Uncovering Amateur Media Histories: Digital Approaches to Archival Collections”

If you’re in town, come join us!

🔗 https://necs.org/conference

#digitalfilmhistory #MediaStudies #feministfilmhistory #culturalheritage

DAVIF Jun 12, 2025

The final program of #NECS2025 in Lisbon is now available with two contributions by #DAVIF PI @SarahMaiDang!

✨ On Thursday, 19 June at 11am she will give a paper on missing data, algorithmic bias and power in film and media studies (room G.1.5 - panel B7)

✨ On Friday, 20 June at 9:20am Sarah-Mai Dang will be the respondent in a panel on digital approaches in amateur media historiography (room B.1.2 - panel D14)

Full program: https://cms.necs.org/sites/default/files/documents/conference/necs2025_program_v2.pdf

#DH #FeministFilmHistory #DataFeminism