DOK Archive Market
Meet with international archives at the DOK Archive Market, find out about their footage and stills collections and forge connections with the archive representatives.
The DOK Archive Market panel programme presents exciting discussions offering insights into the nuts and bolts of archival research, production and rights clearances.
In one-on-one consultations, archive researchers and archive producers give concrete advice on researching and licensing footage for projects.
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Accredited guests welcome
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AI is shaping our world and influences how filmmakers find and use archival footage. But archives hold real-life stories, not just data. Why is every AI decision, from archive to edit suite, an ethical one? AI expert Peter Hora introduces AIrchive, an open-source tool in development that searches by meaning, not metadata. Ethicist Jan Motal (Masaryk University) offers documentary makers an ethical compass rooted in dialogue. Matěj Strnad (Czech National Film Archive) and Adelheid Heftberger (Bundesarchiv, AV-Media) represent the archives. FOCAL Award-winning archive producer Monika Preischl (GRAP) adds the production view. Moderated by filmmaker Lucie Králová, co-founder of Future Memory Lab.
Moderator:
Lucie Kralova
Future Memory Lab / Ethic Guidelines
Panellists:
Peter Hora
IT-Architect
Jan Motal
Ethic Research Project
Matěj Strnad
Czech National Film Archive
Adelheid Heftberger
Bundesarchiv AV
Monika Preischl
Archive Producer / GRAP
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When is an archive image still documentary and will the next generation still care whether it's real?
Broadcasters are already replacing reenactments with AI-animated scenes. Soon it won't be the reenactment that's generated, but the archive shot itself. GRAP (German Researchers and Archive Producers) brings the latest from Footage Fest New York and the US, where the Archive Producers Association has issued first guidelines. A commissioning editor from a broadcaster's science department shares how AI is already used. Producers report from a demanding world of shrinking budgets, where every shortcut is tempting. And we screen and discuss the evidence: clips where AI met archive material.
Moderator
Elizabeth Klinck
Archive Producer / Founder of E Klinck Research
Panellists
Mona El-Bira
Archive Producer / GRAP
Rasmus Raecke
ZDF Commissioning Editor NANO
Katharina Bergfeld
Producer / Blue Magpie Film
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Using music in film can quickly become a legal maze. Who actually owns a song and which rights do filmmakers need? This talk provides a practical introduction to publishing, master and synchronization rights and explains what happens when licences expire. It also takes a closer look at supposedly “royalty-free” music and some of the most common misconceptions surrounding music licensing. Finally, we’ll take a brief look at current developments around AI-generated music and what they could mean for filmmakers.
Speaker:
Solveig Hansen
Archive Producer
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One-on-Ones with Archive Researchers & Producers
DOK Industry participants are invited to consult with archive researchers and archive producers on researching and licensing footage for their projects.
Prior registration required. The list of available experts and sign up forms will be published here on 15 October.
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A large number of analogue prints of the films of the revolutionary Latin American cinema of the 1960s/70s can be found in the Arsenal archive and the Federal Archives. The paths they took to get there also give an account of collaborations between East and West German film festivals, distributors and archives despite the Iron Curtain. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Arsenal Filminstitut), Petra Rauschenbach (German Federal Archives), Stefanie Eckert (DEFA Foundation) and Florian Wüst (curator) will be in discussion about this history and the significance of institutional collaboration today.
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DOK Industry is realised with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a Decision of the German Bundestag.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
