The Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF ("German Film Institute") is an institute for the study of film, based in
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...
, Germany.
History
The Deutsches Filminstitut was founded on 13 April 1949 as the Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde (DIF). In 1952, the
Deutsches Filmarchiv ("German Film Archive"; founded in
Marburg
Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximat ...
in 1947 by Hanns Wilhelm Lavies as the Archiv für Filmwissenschaft) was set up as an autonomous department of the DIF, from which it separated again after a reorganisation in 1956.
On 1 January 1959, Lavies left the DIF and was succeeded as director by
Max Lippmann. Theo Fürstenau became director in 1966, and in 1981 Gerd Albrecht. The director from 1 February 1997 until September 2017 was Claudia Dillmann.
On 30 October 1999, the name was officially changed to Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF. In January 2006 the organisation merged with the ("German Film Museum"), also based in Frankfurt am Main, to DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum.
Functions
The Deutsches Filminstitut has one of the largest film archives in Germany and one of the most comprehensive collections of material on all aspects of
cinematography
Cinematography (from ancient Greek κίνημα, ''kìnema'' "movement" and γράφειν, ''gràphein'' "to write") is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.
Cinematographers use a lens to focu ...
and cinema.
Current projects include:
* The edition and publication of the censorship decisions of the Berliner Film-Oberprüfstelle ("Berlin Film Inspection Point") from 1920 to 1938
* COLLATE – a collaborative system for the annotation and indexing of archive material
*
filmportal.de
filmportal.de is an online database of information related to German film. It includes extensive information on films and filmmakers as well as articles on film issues. The website was released on occasion of the 54th Berlin International Film Fe ...
– an internet portal for German film
*
filmarchives-online.eu – union catalogue of European film archives
* EFG – The
European Film Gateway
The European Film Gateway (EFG) is a single access point to the digitized holdings of historical European film documents from numerous film archives and cinematheques, including over 600,000 individual objects from over 60 collections. The Europ ...
– a single access point to digital collections held in European film archives and cinémathèques
The DIF is a founding member of the Deutscher Kinemathekenverbund ("German Union of Cinematheques").
See also
*
Museumsufer
Museumsufer (Museum Embankment) is the name of a landscape of museums in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, lined up on both banks of the river Main or in close vicinity. The centre is the historic art museum Städel. The other museums were added, partly ...
References
External links
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COLLATE– Collaborative System for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material
filmportal.defilmarchives-online.eu– union catalogue of European film archives
europeanfilmgateway.eu a single access point to digital collections held in European film archives and cinémathèques
Films about WW1 on The European Film GatewayDeutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main
Film organisations in Germany
Museums in Frankfurt
Cinema museums in Germany
1949 establishments in Germany
Arts organizations established in 1949
Film archives in Germany
FIAF-affiliated institutions
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