#gava2026

Day 2 of #GAVA2026, missed some morning sessions due to meetings. Back after coffee break to Corn, Peanut, Garlic and Film Objects: Media Rurality and the Post-Socialist Archive by Xin Zhou, Concoedia University, Montreal. China. 80s, many films were state created, mainly for education and also to spread ideology. We watched a short clip on how to rear chickens. Now derelict and abandoned. Who is archiving these films? #GAVA2026

NOW: Barefoot Archivist Wisdom in Tropical Zones: The "Guerilla Archiving" of Super 8 film in Piyamit Village by Fong Jia Min, independent audiovisual archivist, Taiwan-based Malaysian. Jiang Ping and Jiang Hua - guerilla former member of the Marxist-Leninist unit of the communist party of Malaya. Footage of their survival journey, guerilla activities, visiting delegation and combat situations in 71 reels, Beta and VHS. #GAVA2026 #GAVA #AVArchiving #GuerillaAVArchiving

Guerilla archiving - improvised film storage container using local materials Ba-ma resin + diesel, handmade waterproof zinc container, dry-roasted rice as dessicant 🤯😲😲 #AVArchiving #FilmArchiving #GuerillaArchiving #GAVA2026 #GAVA

See program and schedule of #GAVA #GAVA2026 https://fapot.or.th/gava2026/pas.html

Straight out of our morning coffee break, we have Marek Jancovic, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, sharing the CINEAGRI project and its usage of RAG data retrieval pipeline to help the historical research of photochemistry of film. The ultimate goal is to help film preservation and film archiving - open digital resource #GAVA2026 #GAVA

Marek's Live demo of the knowledge graph UI. Work in progress. A glimpse of how it can be used by film preservation. #GAVA2026 (Tried uploading a 237 MB video but it timed out. Had to transcode it to 480p, down to 37 MB before it successfully upload)

After lunch, we hear from Zoe Baru, National Film Institute, Papua New Guinea, and Jacqui Uhlmann, NFFA on NFSA-NFI partnership. Co-design model. First Nation's-led origins. Funding from Australian govt. #GAVA2026 #GAVA #CoDesign #FirstNations

Collaborative Preservation - lead by NFSA, guided by NFI. Best copies were selected - e.g. If NFSA has a better copy, that copy is selected. #GAVA2026 #GAVA #AVArchiving #Collaboration

Finally session of day 1 of #GAVA2026, we have a performative lecture "Against Archival Amnesia: Ratna Asmara and Collective Acts of Recovery" by Kelas Liarsip - Umi Lestari, Julita Pratiwi, Efi Sri Handayani. The lecture explored the Kelas Liarsip's adventure of identifying, preserving and restoring Dr Samsi by Ratna Asmara, women's filmmaking, Indonesian women's movement and alternative historical narrative. #GAVA2026 #GAVA #AVArchiving #AgainstArchivalAmnesia