Our Film

WHY WE FILM explores why and how we engage with film as a physical object and experience- why we watch it, why we create with it, why we teach with it, why we preserve it. We’ve spent the past 18 months interviewing dozens of people in a range of motion picture-related professions: archivists, film-makers, scientists, researchers, projectionists, photochemical preservationists, cinematographers. We're shooting and finishing on 16mm and 35mm and, to this end, have received support from Kodak, Panavision, film professionals and labs, all of whom have donated goods and services.