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Smile and the Whole World Smiles With You…
...Except when you’re wearing a facemask. Like now, where it’s all Mad Max out there. Neighbors have morphed into strangers and people’s inscrutable expressions are concealed behind makeshift or store-bought protection, no one daring to look each other in the eye in case we’re doing something wrong. And on top of all that, 3 million of us in Cali lost our jobs. Deep anxiety? Check. Unfathomable consequences literally out of nowhere? Check. Government stepping up with a safety net? Like the t-shirt says, no one is coming. It’s up to us. I attended a Zoom thing hosted by [...]
Support BAVC Media when you rent the new film SPACESHIP EARTH
Stream the new film SPACESHIP EARTH starting May 8th and 50% of all proceeds will go to support BAVC Media and our staff.
Walker Art Center: Preserving History, Art, and Conversations
Considered one of the nation’s leading art institutions, Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center has been a leader in musical and dance performances, contemporary design and fine arts, and cinema since 1940. BAVC Media’s Preservation Department has been collaborating with the Walker Art Library & Archives in recent years, digitizing selected one-of-kind videotapes showcasing just a sample of their extraordinary collection. One of the more prominent works of art located in the Sculpture Garden in front of the Walker Art Center is Spoonbridge and Cherry. A whimsically large bent spoon arches over a man-made lake, balancing a large red cherry with its [...]
Resources During COVID-19
These resources will be continually updated as we find new information and tools that may be valuable to our community during this time. Last updated July 13, 2021. Feel free to reach out if you have any suggestions. For more information about the steps BAVC Media is taking to stop the spread in our physical space you can read our Facility Policy and our SF Commons reopening plan. General Coronavirus Health and Financial Resources Coronavirus Update: Legal Information for Workers From the Legal Aid Network What’s Happening? (Media & Public Health Info) Includes sections: Why People Are Concerned, Public Health [...]
Online learning doesn’t have to be lonely and boring
Are you an in-person learner? Me too. I like to focus on the instructor, get all my questions answered and see what everyone else is making. Plus? Spy on the competition, er, meet new people. Sometimes it’s hard to give up a whole weekend, though, and that’s why I’m excited about BAVC Media’s new flipped training. Here’s how it works. Our instructors are taking their core information and condensing it into short, to-the-point nuggets of golden wisdom in the form of video episodes, which will be available to you. Grasp the info on your own time, at your own speed. [...]
Converting FFV1/MKV to v210/MOV
Digital Deliverables at BAVC Media At BAVC Media Preservation one of our main objectives is to digitize tape-based media formats to preservation-ready digital files. We often try to walk the thin line between helping collection holders make decisions about their master formats and being as flexible as possible to provide them with their desired formats. Literature about the benefits, adoption, and capture of MKV have already been written, so we’ll skip that for now. Instead, this blog post will describe our process of converting FFV1/MKV files to v210/MOV files while ensuring that no data is lost or mangled in the [...]
Film to Radio with Making Contact
BAVC Media's community partner, Making Contact, wants to share your documentary film on radio stations across the US and Canada!
A Guide to Approaching Audiovisual Digitization for Artists and Arts and Culture Organizations
In 2017 Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) received a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation which supported the continuation of our Preservation Access Program (PAP), which offers subsidized preservation services to artists and organizations with archival audiovisual holdings. As part of the grant, BAVC Media has written this paper meant to provide direction and guidance in the process of preserving audiovisual collections, particularly those owned or managed by individuals or smaller organizations. The paper provides information for both practitioners in the field of preservation as well as information for artists and organizations that will help them to [...]
Interviews with former Fellows Emelie Mahdavian and Kristina Motwani about 2019 Sundance Special Jury Prize Winner “Midnight Traveler”
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run. Emelie Mahdavian was a 2017 BAVC Mediamaker Fellow when “Midnight Traveler” was in production. The film won a Special Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Emilie, what is your our role/credit on the film? Producer/Writer/Editor How did you come to tell this story? Hassan Fazili and I met through [...]
