Political Film Archives

‘Political Film Archives’ is a collaborative project of the Eye Filmmuseum, the Amsterdam City Archives, and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), to research, preserve and present the work of political film collectives from the Netherlands in the period 1968-1985. The project (2023-2025) has started with the case of the Amsterdams Stadsjournaal, and will subsequently pay attention to other film collectives. The project team consists of archivists, curators, researchers and students, including the authors of this article (in alphabetical order): Rommy Albers (project coordinator, curator at Eye Filmmuseum), Suzan Crommelin (audiovisual archivist at Amsterdam City Archives), Bert Dingerink (sociologist, student of Art History at UvA, intern at Eye Filmmuseum), Floris Paalman (coordinator of the MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, UvA), Andrei Vilcov (student MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, UvA, and intern at Eye Filmmuseum), André Waardenburg (film critic for the Dutch newspaper NRC, volunteer at Eye Filmmuseum), Meg Weijers (trainee collection, Eye Filmmuseum). Other members of the team are Simona Monizza (curator at Eye Filmmuseum) and Gerdien Smit (collection policy officer at Eye Filmmuseum); the scheduled exhibition of the Amsterdam Stadsjournaal (fall 2025) will be curated by Erik Schmitz (conservator at Amsterdam City Archives) i.c.w. the project team. Corresponding author: Floris Paalman, <f.j.j.w.paalman@uva.nl>.