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TECHNÈS is an international research partnership (funded by SSHRC) founded in 2013 which today counts among its members some fifty researchers and 18 institutions, including film archives, film schools and universities. TECHNÈS’ mission is to rethink film history and its methods by interrogating the technologies and techniques which have accompanied media mutations, from the rise of audiovisual practices in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments.
The partnership is pleased to present 32 thematic Encyclopaedia parcours, on which more than 80 researchers from various countries collaborated. These parcours address topics as varied as the evolution of moving picture cameras, the transformation of cinema professions and amateur practices, discourses around technology, etc. The production of parcours will continue over the next few months.
Made up of scholarly texts and numerous often previously unseen written and visual documents, the Encyclopaedia’s aim is to preserve cinema’s memory. The materials which structure these documents (patents, filmed demonstrations and interviews, 3D digitizing of film equipment, etc.) are indexed in a standardized manner in a database, also open access. Finally, the ambition of the Encyclopaedia is to become an indispensable tool for documentation, study and discovery for people who are passionate about cinema techniques and technology, whether they are specialists or not.