From 1982, the Délégation aux Arts Plastiques of the Ministry of Culture pursues a policy of dissemination of contemporary art by broadcasting. Portraits of artists, documentary essays, fiction, thematic series, films of artists, video art: altogether that comes to 548 films and videos covering all areas of the visual arts of today, painting, sculpture, photography, comics, design, fashion, video art ...
From 1986, the Museum of Orsay has produced or co-produced over a hundred fifty films in collaboration with independent producers, television channels and institutions. The purpose of the museum is to present to the public, from its collections, an era, 1848-1914, in all its expressions: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, decorative arts, architecture, urbanism, cinema, history, literature, music ...
From 1980 to 1986, on the initiative of Gilbert Perlein and Murielle Anssens, the LaM (then Museum of Modern Art in Villeneuve d'Ascq) had an "audiovisual cell". Thus, around fifty videos were produced and carried-out: artists in their workshops, in situ interventions, creative process ... Artists are found there such as Daniel Buren, Edouard Pignon, Joseph Beuys, Mahjoub Ben Bella, Roger Frezin …
In 2013, The LaM and Heure Exquise! become partners with the objective to safeguard this audiovisual heritage. Heure Exquise! assured the digitization of the video collection, thus complementing their catalog. They are now visible online and available for sale and for rent.
Surveying The First Decade : Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States a compiling of seventeen hours of experimental and independent video from 1968 to 1980, the first decade of the production of video art. The anthology includes 68 titles of more than 60 artists and is organized into eight programs, it has become a recognized resource for programs of media studies and provides an authoritative introduction to the history of video art. "Surveying ..." provides an overview of the diversity of the creative practices arising from the beginning of the video.
Studio national des arts contemporains Annual compilations of students creations produced by Le Fresnoy COLLECTIONS