Museum of Dreams: Silent Antiquity Films in the BFI National Archive

梦想博物馆：BFI 国家档案馆中的无声古代电影

• 批准号: AH/X012808/1
• 负责人: Maria Wyke
• 金额: $ 77.76万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX012808%2F1
• 关键词: Museum; Dreams; Silent; Antiquity; Films

Classical antiquity (the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome) provided cinema from its inception with a powerfully privileged site for the exploration of a past perceived to be the origins and cultural heritage of the Western world. Silent cinema (encompassing a period from the 1890s to the 1920s) played a fundamental role in the modern creation and dissemination of knowledge about that past within and across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries. Cinema offered its global audiences a radically new, astonishingly creative, and swiftly iconic way of experiencing classical antiquity that was related to, but distinct from, its reconstruction in high cultural forms (such as the novel, theatre, opera, painting, dance and sculpture). The classical past was brought into the present day moving in time and space, embodied by actors, and emotionally coded by colour and musical accompaniment. Thanks to cinema, classical antiquity was rendered a powerfully immersive democratic dreamworld while, thanks to classical antiquity, cinema could lay claim to the status of an educative art - a 'museum of dreams' as in the project's title.Museum of Dreams will produce a cohesive, interdisciplinary and comparative study of the encounter between classical antiquity and silent cinema. The project will ask how that encounter shaped both the cultural memory of classical antiquity in the modern world and the history of cinema as a global medium. It will investigate silent films concerning classical antiquity as aesthetic works, commercial forms of entertainment and instruments of mass education - an education that, in its frequent imaginative focus on women and slaves and address to audiences diverse in gender, ethnicity and class, appeared to challenge the authority of elite cultural institutions like the public school or museum. The project will use as a representative and manageable corpus the largest (yet least well-served) collection of surviving films, those in the British Film Institute's National Archive. At least 70 catalogued prints have ancient Greece or Rome as their focus and range widely in date, genre and country of origin. The project will be the first systematically to investigate these unparalleled holdings as engagements with classical antiquity. By these means, Museum of Dreams will establish a better understanding of both the modern reception of classical antiquity and the transnational history and cultural status of silent cinema. By focusing on the BFI holdings, the project will also situate the UK firmly within the global network that produced, exhibited, consumed, and curated the classical antiquity films of the early twentieth century, and establish for those films an important educational legacy in the twenty-first century. Museum of Dreams will considerably enrich understanding of the role of classical antiquity in British culture in the early twentieth century compared to other countries and the process whereby access to it was democratised. It will provide deeper knowledge of the cultural function ascribed to silent cinema, its national characteristics, transnational exhibition and localised consumption. By presenting its findings in a linked-data research website that will also provide easy access to at least 30 digitised prints, and through other publications, workshops and screenings, the project will bring attention to the importance of the BFI holdings and stimulate further research into them and, more broadly, into how the distant past can be recalled through modern media. The project's interdisciplinary and comparative approach will directly benefit the international community of film archivists as well as multiple constituencies of scholars. Engagement in the project of professional stakeholders (architects, teachers, museum curators, and media practitioners) will better enable the creation of educational resources - and a legacy for these films that will last well beyond the lifetime of the project.

古典古代（古希腊和罗马的文化）从成立起就为电影院提供了一个有力的特权遗址，以探索被认为是西方世界的起源和文化遗产的过去。沉默的电影（涵盖从1890年代到1920年代的时期）在现代创作和传播有关过去和跨越民族，文化和语言界限的知识方面发挥了基本作用。 Cinema为全球观众提供了一种全面的新颖，令人惊讶的创意，并且具有标志性的标志性方式，它体验了与其以高文化形式（例如小说，戏剧，歌剧，绘画，绘画，舞蹈和雕塑）重建相关但与之相关的古典古代方式。古典过去被带入了当今的时空，由演员体现，并在情感上由颜色和音乐伴奏编码。多亏了电影，古典古代才得到了一个有力的身临其境的民主梦想世界，而由于古典古代，电影院可以主张一种教育艺术的地位 - “梦想博物馆”，如该项目的标题中。梦想的梦想将产生凝聚力，跨学科和比较的经文古代和典型的古代古代和典型古代的互动。该项目将询问这次相遇如何塑造现代世界中古典古代的文化记忆，又塑造了电影的历史作为一种全球媒介。它将调查有关古典古代作为美学作品的无声电影，商业形式的娱乐形式和大规模教育工具 - 这种教育频繁地富有想象力地关注女性和奴隶，并向对性别，族裔，族裔和阶级的观众发表讲话，以挑战公立学校或博物馆等精英文化机构的权威。该项目将用作代表和易于管理的语料库，是英国电影学院国家档案馆中的最大（但人数良好）的尚存电影集合。至少有70张分类的印刷品具有古希腊或罗马的重点，并且在日期，流派和原籍国广泛范围。该项目将是第一个系统地研究这些无与伦比的持有物作为与古代古代的交战的一个。通过这些手段，梦想博物馆将更好地了解古典古代的现代接受以及无声电影的跨国历史和文化地位。通过关注BFI控股公司，该项目还将牢固地将英国牢牢地置于二十世纪初期生产，展示，消费和策划古典古代电影的全球网络中，并为这些电影建立了二十一世纪的重要教育遗产。与其他国家相比，梦dream以求的博物馆将在20世纪初期对古典古代在英国文化中的作用以及对其进行民主化的过程的理解。它将更深入地了解归因于无声电影，其民族特征，跨国展览和本地化消费的文化功能。通过在链接的数据研究网站上介绍其发现，该网站还将轻松访问至少30个数字化的印刷品，并通过其他出版物，研讨会和放映，该项目将引起人们对BFI Holdings的重要性的关注，并刺激对它们的进一步研究的重要性，并更广泛地通过现代媒体来召回遥远的过去。该项目的跨学科和比较方法将直接受益于国际电影档案管理员以及多个学者的选区。参与专业利益相关者（建筑师，教师，博物馆策展人和媒体从业人员）的项目将更好地创建教育资源 - 以及这些电影的遗产，这些遗产将远远超出该项目的一生。