Hidden Treasures Programme
Hidden Treasures
In celebration of our film heritage programme Adventures with Archives, we are now offering, for a time limited period, a new programme of archive film based works for screening in your venue - free of charge.
Hidden Treasures offers both a compilation of short films, providing enough content for a standalone screening, as well as a selection of short films that you can screen individually ahead of a main feature.
Cinema audiences have delighted in the exploration of the weird and wonderful world of archive film, through these Hidden Treasures. Curators, archivists, musicians, poets, and filmmakers have collaborated to repurpose archive footage with contemporary audiences in mind, bringing new narratives, new music and new experiences to both established and new film audiences.
Thanks to BFI Film Hub Midlands, we can provide the films for screening free of charge to Film Hub members. Films are available as a digital file (an MP4 of the full programme or a single film), or on a DVD.
Please email [email protected] for more information
The films are available for you to view here.
Hidden Treasures offers both a compilation of short films, providing enough content for a standalone screening, as well as a selection of short films that you can screen individually ahead of a main feature.
Cinema audiences have delighted in the exploration of the weird and wonderful world of archive film, through these Hidden Treasures. Curators, archivists, musicians, poets, and filmmakers have collaborated to repurpose archive footage with contemporary audiences in mind, bringing new narratives, new music and new experiences to both established and new film audiences.
Thanks to BFI Film Hub Midlands, we can provide the films for screening free of charge to Film Hub members. Films are available as a digital file (an MP4 of the full programme or a single film), or on a DVD.
Please email [email protected] for more information
The films are available for you to view here.
Hidden Treasures
Main Programme
Running time: 47 Minutes
Select the image below to find out more about each of the films in our Hidden Treasures Progamme, and take a look at the full programme below...
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Selected Single Films
- choose one of these films to screen before your main feature
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Dear Future Generations
Running Time: 3 minutes, 10 seconds
Using spoken word with selected archive footage, this short film presents an evocative and poignant reflection on the world we inherit and subsequently pass on to the future. This film was nominated in the 'Changes for a Better World' category, at the 2022 Into Film Awards.
Rediscovery
Running Time: 5 minutes, 50 seconds
A guide to rediscovering the world.
Running Time: 3 minutes, 10 seconds
Using spoken word with selected archive footage, this short film presents an evocative and poignant reflection on the world we inherit and subsequently pass on to the future. This film was nominated in the 'Changes for a Better World' category, at the 2022 Into Film Awards.
Rediscovery
Running Time: 5 minutes, 50 seconds
A guide to rediscovering the world.
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To The Dreamers
Running Time: 4 minutes, 42 seconds
'To The Dreamers’ uses archive footage to illustrate the journey of a girl who craves for a life full of adventure. Leaving her dead-end job behind, she takes the next train out of town and finds herself travelling the world, making lifelong friends and learning how to live life to the full.
Aviatrix
Running Time: 4 minutes, 21 seconds
The Shropshire-based poet Jean Atkin composed two new poems for an Adventures with Archives live event: Aviatrix and Chorley Flat Iron Market. Aviatrix was inspired by archive footage of pioneering English aviator Amy Johnson gliding over the Shropshire Hills (Amy can be seen in the first one and half minutes of this short film).
Running Time: 4 minutes, 42 seconds
'To The Dreamers’ uses archive footage to illustrate the journey of a girl who craves for a life full of adventure. Leaving her dead-end job behind, she takes the next train out of town and finds herself travelling the world, making lifelong friends and learning how to live life to the full.
Aviatrix
Running Time: 4 minutes, 21 seconds
The Shropshire-based poet Jean Atkin composed two new poems for an Adventures with Archives live event: Aviatrix and Chorley Flat Iron Market. Aviatrix was inspired by archive footage of pioneering English aviator Amy Johnson gliding over the Shropshire Hills (Amy can be seen in the first one and half minutes of this short film).
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Grandad’s Camera
Running Time: 3 minutes, 53 seconds
Swinging The Lambeth Walk
Running Time: 2 minutes, 50 seconds
Running Time: 3 minutes, 53 seconds
Swinging The Lambeth Walk
Running Time: 2 minutes, 50 seconds
Creative Conversations with SAND: The Celluloid Closet
Running Time: 9 minutes, 36 seconds
In collaboration with campaigning organisation SAND (Safer Ageing No Discrimination), the artist Dea Paradisos worked with members of the LGBTQ+ community. Face to face sessions were just about to start when the pandemic hit, and so Dea, with the technical support of Richard Benjamin, moved the sessions online. The 1995 film The Celluloid Closet was used a springboard for discussion about on-screen representation of the LGBTQ+ community. The resulting film, made by the group, includes excerpts of the captured conversation which serve as the soundtrack to a film, whilst archive footage illustrates the discussion.
Running Time: 9 minutes, 36 seconds
In collaboration with campaigning organisation SAND (Safer Ageing No Discrimination), the artist Dea Paradisos worked with members of the LGBTQ+ community. Face to face sessions were just about to start when the pandemic hit, and so Dea, with the technical support of Richard Benjamin, moved the sessions online. The 1995 film The Celluloid Closet was used a springboard for discussion about on-screen representation of the LGBTQ+ community. The resulting film, made by the group, includes excerpts of the captured conversation which serve as the soundtrack to a film, whilst archive footage illustrates the discussion.
