The Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF ("German Film Institute") is an institute for the study of film, based in
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...
, 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 (; ) is a college town, university town in the States of Germany, German federal state () of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf Districts of Germany, district (). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has ...
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 () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.
Cinematographers use a lens (optics), lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sen ...
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 – an internet portal for German film
*
filmarchives-online.eu – union catalogue of European film archives
* EFG – The
European Film Gateway – 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
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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