Video Library and Library

The video department consists of 8,000 important works of film and television documentaries covering various forms and subjects. The documentary films have been gathered together in a film data bank which is available online for internet research. It is completed by a library specialised in the most important publications in the field of film and television documentaries as well as a collection of different journals.

Documentary Film Archive

The Documentary Film Archive consists of the most important international documentaries, authors and styles from the very beginning to the present day. It concentrates for the most part on European film and TV productions. Much attention has been given to obtaining material from Central and Eastern Europe. When the collection was set up emphasis was not just placed on those productions considered to be valuable from an artistic point of view, but significant films and videos of their contemporary period were also just as much taken into consideration.

Research Project
"The history and aesthetics of the documentary film in Germany from 1895 to 1945"

is a research project of the DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER in co-operation with the Universities of Siegen and Trier supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association)

The State Film Collection Baden-Wuerttemberg

The aim is to secure and look after the audio-visual heritage of the state. The MFG Media and Film Society of Baden-Wuerttemberg has given the archiving and cataloguing of the films it has supported to the DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER since 1998. In addition to that a film archive is being built up that guarantees central storage of film documents relevant to the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Events

The Documentary Film Center organizes periodically workshops, screenings, retrospectives and conferences.

Publications

The DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER has up to now published the following papers and videos:

• CLOSE UP (further information in German only)
  The results of individual symposia as well as recent chosen works on the history and aesthetics of the genre are published in a book series CLOSE UP.
  
  
• The Film Treasures of Baden-Wuerttemberg (further information in German only)
  This is an index of films and videos from 550 state and communal institutions, churches, archives from industry and various associations as well as private collections.
  
  
• O Heimatland - a treasure trove of films from 100 years of Baden and Wuerttemberg (further information in German only)
  The Baden-Wuerttemberg Reel with newly discovered documentary films available on video (VHS and DVD in German or English).
  
  
• Signs of the Time
  A video edition on the History of the "Stuttgart School", the documentary department of SDR Television.
  
  
• Blickwechsel (Change of View) (further information in German only)
  Film documentaries made by women between yesterday and tomorrow. A brochure on the symposium held by the DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER in co-operation with dfi-documentary film initiatives in the film office of North Rhine-Westphalia from 22 - 24 February 2000.
  
  
• Der Dokumentarfilm als Autorenfilm (The documentary film as independent production) (further information in German only)
  Approximately 30 authors and directors of documentary films answered an opinion poll by the DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER about the state of the documentary film on television.
  
  
• Between Reality and Poetry. The documentary film in Poland
  A brochure with five essays by Margarete Wach.
  A bibliography of Polish films and a chronology of Polish history, published by the DOCUMENTARY FILM CENTER.

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