THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF MUVI 05: MUSEUMS-VIDEO-FILM. FROM EVENT TO PORTAL WITH ONLINE ACCESS TO MUSEUM FILMS

Od prve bijenalne manifestacije MUVI: muzeji–video– film, održane 2006. godine, nastojali smo se razvijati ne prestajući stalno uključivati nove oblike komunikacije i prezentacije audio-vizualnih priloga. Prikazivački program, predavanja i susreti filmskih i muzejskih autora i kustosa bili su inicijalna platforma za razmjenu znanja. Potom se krenulo s prikazivanjem inozemnog programa, organizacijom radionica, od 2012. i s festivalom filmova snimljenih mobitelom MUVIMOBIL, a od posljednjeg MUVI-ja 2014. godine manifestacija je proširena multimedijskim blokom MUVI lab, kojim je prošireno istraživanje pokretnih slika i na multimedijske projekte (na web-stranice, igrice, 3D animacije, holograme, mobilne aplikacije, audiovodiče, interaktivne kioske, online izložbe, virtualne muzeje, blogove...). Tijekom pet MUVI-ja (2006., 2009., 2010., 2012., 2014.) u prikazivačkom dijelu programa sudionici su mogli vidjeti oko 250 videa nastalih u produkciji hrvatskih i inozemnih muzeja, a sudjelovalo je tridesetak vanjskih suradnika/suradnica iz Hrvatske i inozemstva.From the first of this biennial series, the 2006 MUVI: museums-video-film, the event was announced as a research project. MUVI has gone on along this path and developed through all the five events since then, without ceasing constantly to involve new forms of communication and presentation of audiovisual contributions. The screening programme, the lectures and the meetings of film and museum authors and curators were the initial platform for the exchange of knowledge. After that a start was made with the screening of a foreign programme, with the organisation of workshops, and from 2012 with a festival of films shot on mobile phones, MUVIMOBIL. From 2014 came the multimedia block MUVI lab, which expanded research into moving images to multimedia projects (Web sites, games, 3D animations, holograms, mobile apps, audio guides, interactive kiosks, online exhibitions, virtual museums and blogs). During these five MUVIs, in the screening section of the programme, some 250 videos produced by Croatian and foreign museums have been shown, and in the programme of the project, some thirty consultants, from at home and abroad took part. The objective in the beginning was merely to start off research into the extent to which and in which way film was featured in museums, and above all to make the first contacts with heritage establishments that with their guidelines and suggestions might be able to help us preserve it. We are also of the opinion that the event itself, however much it has attempted to collect as many as possible of the films and videos created in the two-year intervals, did not alas manage to provide a complete image of the extent to which this medium is used in museums. It was observed that very often museums publish their videos on the many Internet hosting sites (Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook and so on). There can be no doubt that at the current time it is very desirable to use these free services and promote the work of the museums, although this writer concludes that publication on these sites does not provide a sufficiently professional archiving procedure, since they are not entirely reliable – there is always a chance that for some reason they will close down, and all the content will become inaccessible. With technological advances, we also have to face up to the nature of these very unstable media, and the problem of the readability of files and their usability in the future. As well as a synthesis of work on MUVI to date, the paper has also shown the results of research into information from the Online Register of Museums which is run by the Museum Documentation Centre, and collected by the means of a questionnaire. Analysis of the results provided an insight into the current situation related to documentation collections of AV holdings, the number of museum professionals dealing with processing them and the number of units that museums keep in these collections. At the end of the article a short review is made of projects in progress: from the pondering of a digital repository to a look at the test phase of a portal providing online access to museum films