Practices and methods to improve accessibility to restoration and promote competency exchange
Today, only a small part of the analogue audiovisual collections has been digitised, and workflows and digitisation practices are
carried out mainly in institutional centres at a national level. This situation leads to the question:
Is online audiovisual content truly representative of European (and global) film history?
The DREAM-Film (Democratising REsearch and restoration of Audiovisual Media and Film) project aims to develop alternative
approaches to film digitisation, restoration, and quality assessment based on the experience of well-established institutional archives
and smaller non-institutional centres to make those actions more democratic and inclusive by reducing restoration costs in time and
resources. As a result, more accessible and adaptable digitisation practices and restoration software will be generated, promoting
research and knowledge-exchange with strategical dissemination and communication actions. The main strength of this project is the
interdisciplinarity and the mutual knowledge exchange between archives and research centres of humanistic and scientific faculties.
The network involving those centres will be a base for developing more suitable practices and education plans to make film
restoration practices available in institutions based in underrepresented countries and smaller non-institutional archives.
RESEARCHER: Dr. Alice Plutino
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Giovanna Fossati (Dept. Media Studies, Univertisy of Amsterdam)
CO-SUPERVISORS: Anne Gant (Eye Filmmuseum), Prof. Alessandro Rizzi (Dept. Computer Science, University of Amsterdam), Ines Tanović (Filmski Centar Sarajevo)
Develop methodologies and tools that meet the archival needs, reducing the film restoration costs in time and resources through combining technical-scientific sciences with humanities and social sciences.