About us
The Toolbox Filming Living Heritage is a guide to filming and safeguarding craftership and intangible heritage.
It provides a basic methodology for audiovisual documentation of living heritage, craftership, skills and know-how. The methodologies you find here have been tested on the basis of 11 pilot projects in Flanders in the collaborative project 'Focus Craftership'.
Toolbox Filming Living Heritage
In recent years, public interest into intangible heritage and concern for the rich diversity of cultural practices and traditions has grown dramatically. At the same time, the technological possibilities for the audiovisual documentation of this have also grown enormously.
But in what ways can film help in safeguarding craftership* and living heritage? By capturing the know-how and skills of craftership through film, caring for it - or safeguarding it - can be facilitated in different ways.
This is why the toolbox 'Filming living heritage' was developed: as a guide and a source of inspiration that explains how film can serve as a means of safeguarding living heritage in various ways.
This online toolbox came about as part of the 'Focus Craftership' project. On the website www.focusvakmanschap.be you can also discover each of these crafts and their trajectories in sound and image.
For who?
This toolbox is aimed at heritage workers and cultural mediators as initial users. We hope to see this toolbox and its content being used by a broader audience, and for it to trickle down to other interested users as time proceeds. After all, the experiences presented here are as useful to practitioners and videographers interested in filming living heritage as they are to professional heritage workers.
Very often, in the reality of filming as a means of safeguarding, there will be teams of heritage professionals, videographers and practitioners working together.
Thus, everyone is invited to explore and make use of this toolbox to the widest possible extent and in ways applicable to their own needs.
What does this toolbox offer?
The toolbox ‘Filming living heritage’ proposes a variety of approaches to documenting craft skills and living heritage in general.
Depending on your particular goals and interests, you can choose to create detailed videos, share your knowledge and skills, or document your own research.
This toolbox offers first-hand experiences in filming and documenting living heritage to inspire your audiovisual documentation and is aimed at safeguarding heritage skills, knowledge and practices.
Whatever your motivation, you are sure to find useful tools and guidance for your own project!
* 'craftership’ = usually know as ‘craftmanship'
Within the Toolbox Filming Living Heritage, we have made a conscious choice to use gender-neutral language and therefor use the term 'craftership'. We hope this contributes to changing gender-sensitive language in our functioning and daily interaction.
Credits
Methodology development
The methodology available on filminglivingheritage.org has been developed by Dr. Tamara Nikolić Đerić (UNESCO trainer and freelance cultural heritage consultant) and Jorijn Neyrinck (Director Workshop intangible heritage Flanders) with contributions from (in thematic order):
Filmmaking
Alexander Kerkhof (Feathers on wings)
Identification and inventorying
Julie Aerts (PARCUM) and Lieselot Cornelis (ETWIE)
Awareness raising
Lieve De Saedeleer & Hilde Schoefs (Bokrijk - Craftsmanship and Heritage) and Chantal Bisschop & Laura Danckaert (CAG)
Education
Lieve De Saedeleer & Hilde Schoefs (Bokrijk - Craftsmanship and Heritage) and Chantal Bisschop & Laura Dankaert (CAG)
Transmission
Debora Plouy & Anaïs Verhulst (CEMPER), Lieselot Cornelis (ETWIE) and Lieve De Saedeleer & Hilde Schoefs (Bokrijk - Craftsmanship and Heritage)
Research
Frea Vancraeynest & Laura Hemelings (Histories)
Use and Rights knowledge and images
advise by Monica Boța-Moisin & Harriet Deacon
Toolbox operations coordinator
Shana Van Hauwermeiren (Workshop intangible heritage Flanders)
Web development
With many thanks to all the living heritage practitioners involved
Cropselection
Bert and Marc Peeters
Peter Bauwens
Greet Lambrecht
Building a hurdy-gurdy
Marc Reymen
The Making of Giants
Ventura & Hosta, Navata, Catalonia
Neus Hosta & David Ventura
the Breugel Committee Wingene
Dirk Demeyere
Luc Bauwens
Luc Rotté
Katrien Delodder
Giants in Flanders, Limburg
Julien Maebe
Marcel Veltjen
Giant society Sint-Amandsberg, Ghent
Raf Verbeke
Hilde Deschrijver
Cooperage
Rudi Ghequire
Pol Dewitte
Jordi Grossey
Wattle and daub
Lieve Willekens
Aïcha Chairi
Zabi Yazdani
Guy Hoofs
Translations credits
English
Tamara Nikolić Đerić
Jorijn Neyrinck
Shana Van Hauwermeiren
Lieve De Saedeleer
Hilde Schoefs
Joanne Orr
Océane Lesot
Wout Schuerwegen
Dutch
Jorijn Neyrinck
Shana Van Hauwermeiren
Kia Tsakiridis
Lieve De Saedeleer
Hilde Schoefs
Wout Schuerwegen
Design and infographics
Illustrations
Shaved Monkey & Workshop intangible heritage Flanders
Japanese woodcut
Vladimir Ivaneanu
Soetkin Everaert
Wickerwork
Jeanny Bouwen
Monastic Crafts
Tongerlo Abbey
Klaarland PRIORY
Postel Abbey
Zonnelied Monastry
Bethanië PRIORY
Abbey of Our Lady of Nazareth
Carmel of Our Lady of Consolation
Averbode Abbey
Taxidermy
Michiel Tilley
Elias Devloo
Mieke De Leeuw
Building a ship’s mast
Jan Vandamme
Johan Louwage
and De Scute community