Class Time and Moving Image (Im)Materiality

The CU Time and (Im)materiality of image provides students skills to identify the deterioration of the various techniques and practices of the moving image, from analogical to digital, and to recognise the agents responsible for these deteriorations.

Theory
Main agents of deterioration of cinematographic and audiovisual images (temperature, humidity, light, pollution, poor management and handling and poor original chemical processing, among others).
Lack of audiovisual content
Identification of physical, chemical changes and biodegradation of films (optical image and sound) of cellulose nitrate, diacetate and triacetate and photosensitive emulsion)
Color deterioration – instability of pigments and dyes
Photographic Patina
Identification of deteriorations in magnetic films (video image and sound) and mixed techniques (film with magnetic sound for example)

Digital decay and fragility of the digital / virtual image and sound. Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) altered by cosmic rays and other high energy particles.

Practice
Capture and processing of black and white and in color using analog photography (negative and reversible film).
The black and white film will be processed in the facility of the photo-laboratory of ULHT.

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ADELSTEIN, Peter Z. (2020), Permanent Images: A Personal and Technical Memoir, Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology.

CHERCHI URSAI, Paolo (2018), Silent Cinema, a Guide to Study, Research and Curatorship, British Film Institute. FOSSATI, Giovanna (2018), From Grain to Pixel, The Archival Life of Film in Transition. Amsterdam University Press. FRICK, Caroline (2011), Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation, Oxford University Press.

READ, Paul e MEYER, Mark Paul (2000), Restoration of Motion Picture Film, Butterworth-Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology.

This Film is Dangerous - A Celebration of Nitrate Film (2002), SMITHER, Roger & SUROWIEC Catherine A. (ed.), FIAF. Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art: Challenges and Perspectives, (2013), NOORDEGRAAF, Julia LE MAITRE, Barbara, SABA, Cosetta, HEDIGER Vinzenz (ed.), Amsterdam University Press.

FilmCare.org. Web-based film resource created by the Image Permanence Institute, 2016: www.filmcare.org