Links

Associations & Organisations

British Film Institute

Excellent and in-depth site from the venerable British Film Institute. Highlights include the series “BFI Archive Interactive” which includes excellent interactive studies on British cinema. A recent one was Paul Merton on Early British Comedy.
Culture.ca

This website is an initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and functions as a one-stop gateway to all aspects of the Canadian cultural scene, including history, politics, sports, and art. Contains an impressive range of up-to-date links and cultural information, including streamed segments from the CBC Television Archives.
Digitalarti

Your one-stop online source for everything digital art. Portal to events across Canada and Europe, live performances, lectures, and online journal dedicated to digital art available as a free pdf journal. Latest issue (Mag. No. 5) includes an interesting essay on the permutations of meanings on the internet. What is most important. What people read? How they read? Where the information is saved? How it is transmitted? Where are all these servers served? What is the environmental footprint of these ‘data centers’? You’ll be surprised.
Electronics Arts Intermix (EAI)

Non-profit resource for film, video and interactive media art. Includes substantial video streaming samples of many of their artists, including Chris Marker, George Kuchar, Ken Jacobs, Carolee Schneemann, Michael Snow, and Douglas Gordon.
Eurochannel

Eurochannel is your one-stop subscription online portal for European music, television, cinema, fashion, and art. The Eurochannel cinema features a wide variety of feature length films, shorts, and documentary, with 70 films a month, three new films every week.
FIAF

Site for the Journal of Film Preservation. Amazingly, the site includes full text (pdf file) access to the excellent association journal.
Film Festival World

Excellent, valuable online resource for everything connected to the world of the film festival. By far the most complete, organised, and up-to-date resource on film festivals from all over the world. Resources include a listing of International film academies and awards bodies and links to film journals and e-zines.
Film Sound

Extensive, one stop location for everything you wanted to know about film sound.
Film Studies Association of Canada

Organ for Canada’s long running Association that brings together film scholars, students, researchers, and teachers from all over the country.
Filmsound.org

The internet’s foremost resource on matters of film sound theory and practice.
FIPRESCI: The International Federation of Film Critics

Website for the important film critics organization, FIPRESCI. Includes a link-up to their relatively new online film journal, “Undercurrents,” an interesting section where film critics write about film books that influenced their intellectual history, and much more.
Intute

Intute is a free UK-based online resource which acts as a massive storage for the every increasing area on reputable online journals/essays in every conceivable area. Its main target are UK students, lecturers and researchers in higher academics, but obviously anyone seeking research in their particular area will benefit from Intute.
Screen Directors Guild of Ireland

“Established in 2000, the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI) is the representative body for directors involved in the Irish and international audiovisual industry. These include directors of feature films, fiction, animation documentary, television drama, short films, video art and commericals.”
The Independent Media Arts Alliance

A national network of independent film, video and new media production centers, distributors and exhibitors from all over parts of Canada.
The Italian Page

A one-stop destination for all things Italy related, spanning culture, art, film, education, travel, health, sports, architecture, and history.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Website for Australian government’s archival mission of preserving its audio-visual history.
The School of Sound

The School of Sound is an organisation that has staged an annual ~~and now, biennial~~ international symposium on the creative use of sound in the arts and media. The next SOS takes place in London in April 27-30, 2011. You can learn more about their related activities, including their journal, “The Soundtrack,” at their website.
Women Make Movies

A non-profit organization which promotes and distributes films from all over the world made by and about women. Their catalogue contains over 400 titles in all genres, with an emphasis on documentary and experimental.