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Alex Wilson
Sheffield-based archivist with over 15 years of experience working and managing audio-visual archives including British Library Sound and Vision, Villon Films, National Jazz Archive, London Community Video Archive, Bradford Arts Centre, and Bridgeman Footage Library.
In 2015 Alex set up Memory Dance, a non-profit organisation that explores different modes of delivering screen heritage and music to diverse audiences, sourcing, digitsing and curating rarely-seen archive film and video collections in new and exciting contexts.
Historical footage and stills production and research for independent documentaries: A Story Left Behind (Asma Kabadeh, 2025) Strike: An Uncivil War (Dan Gordon, 2024) ENO (Gary Hustwit, 2024) Yorkshire Cop… Police, Racism and Me (2021, Milk First Productions – C4), Fifa Uncovered (2022, Netflix) Mind on The Run: The Basil Kirchin Story (2017).
Archival digitsisation projects include Brian Eno personal video archive, Picture Palace North, N.U.M. Video collection, Sheffield Film Co-op, private filmmaker archives.
