__Assist. II [UCLA Film & Television Archive, Summer 2024 Collections and Research Intern]

Applications are now being accepted for the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Summer 2024 Collections and Research Intern. This internship, offered with the support of the Getty Morrow Undergraduate Internship program, will seek to expose college students from backgrounds that have been underrepresented in the arts to careers in museums and visual arts organization. The Collections and Research Intern will work under the guidance of Archive staff from the Collection Services Department and the Research and Study Center to process the Elyseo Taylor and Teshome Gabriel Moving Image Collections, with a focus on inspecting audiovisual material and developing curriculum and research-related resources.

As the first Black instructor in the film department at UCLA in the 1960s, Taylor established programs to support students of color. As a student and then professor in the film department during the 1970s, Gabriel developed courses and produced scholarship on Third Cinema that informed generations of film students and researchers. Taylor and Gabriel’s moving image collections include short and feature films and documentary footage.

The intern will receive training from staff in the Collection Services Department in audiovisual identification and film handling. The intern will inspect items from these collections to provide better descriptive information about the materials and re-house the materials for archival storage. Under the supervision of staff in the Research and Study Center, the intern will develop research resources related to these collections, including building a public-facing study guide and recommending 10 titles from each collection to make accessible to students and researchers through the Archive Research and Study Center.

The internship will take place June 17—August 23, 2024 and will be for 35 hours/week over 10 consecutive weeks. Internship will take place in-person: approximately 60% time spent at the Archive offices, Packard Humanities Institute, Santa Clarita, and 40% time at the Archive Research and Study Center, UCLA, Westwood. Participant must be available for the duration of the internship.

The UCLA Film & Television Archive, a division of the UCLA Library, is internationally renowned for rescuing, preserving, and showcasing moving image media and is dedicated to ensuring that the visual achievements of our time are available for information, research, education and enjoyments for now and for future generations. 

Qualified candidates should demonstrate an interest in moving image archival collections, conservation and preservation, and research related to film and television history, in particular histories of independent and student filmmaking movements during the 1960s and 1970s focused on the intersection of racial equity, feminism, and economic justice.

To apply, please submit a resume, cover letter, and writing sample, and complete an application through the UCLA Library Student Jobs website. The writing sample should be a research paper demonstrating a critical analysis of any topic relating to film and/or television history and/or media production with a focus on history, production, theory, and/or visual style; the paper may include archival research but is not required.

The position is open to UC and Non-UC undergrads, and students who graduated in Spring of ’24 are also eligible.

Applicants must attend college in or be a permanent resident of LA County

Application Deadline: April 20, 2024

To apply, please visit: https://www.library.ucla.edu/about/student-opportunities

If you are not a UCLA student, please enter all 0’s in the UCLA Student ID Number field in the application.

Job Code: FTVA14