Major European Project on Filmstrips

Work has begun on a major new international project on filmstrips, run by Professor Tom Rice (Department of Film Studies). "Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe", which seeks to relocate filmstrips both across European archives and within media history, is a collaborative project between University of St Andrews and Goethe University Frankfurt (with Professor Vinzenz Hediger). The project is funded by the AHRC and DFG and is worth approximately £800,000 over the next 33 months (2025-2027). This includes full time Postdoctoral researchers at both St Andrews and Frankfurt.

The project's research will be developed through close collaborations with archives and partner institutions, including the National Library of Scotland, Museum of English Rural Life (University of Reading), and DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. The project will support an extensive range of events, creative outputs and publications, including an international conference, an edited book collection, and, with the archives, an international workshop. This will also inform the project's final output, a virtual exhibition, featuring a selection of digitised items.