“For the artists who made the pictures we love, the ones at the heart of cinema history, film was their canvas and their brush, their paper and their pen, the material that they handled and held up to the light, cut and spliced, and watched passing through a constant beam of light 24 times per second. It was how they created the art of cinema. So, film itself is still vital to restoration and crucial to preservation.” -Martin Scorsese

We are honoured to launch the Liberating Cinema Restoration Lab with the aim of bringing archivists, restoration specialists, curators, critics and historians of cinema in dialogue to facilitate education, training, and public benefit.

Our first Restoration Lab will take place via Zoom on the 15th November at 18:00 UK time and is focused on three aspects of moving image restoration:

1) How do Archives select Films for Restoration?

2) Heritage Lost and Found: Film Identification

3) Projects for the Future: Preservation Management

The lab comprises a panel followed by a Q&A session with the audience. The panelists comprise Peter Bagrov, President of FIAF The International Federation of Film Archives and Senior Curator at the George Eastman Museum; Tamara Shvediuk, film historian, program curator, archivist and restorer, specialising in film preservation and lost films; and Juan Soto Taborda, film preservation project manager at the Filmoteca de Catalunya.