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As the world’s largest international association of professional media archivists, AMIA brings together a broad range of media professionals. Members represent film studios, corporate and national archives, historical societies, labs, post production, universities, footage libraries and more. AMIA supports public and... -
Donate here! What if painters were told there would be no more watercolors, that they must transition to oil? No choice between manual and automatic transmission in your car. And moviegoers and filmmakers had to forego film for digital files? This is what brought the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Film Advocacy... -
Why We Film Teaser Why We 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,...
What if painters were told there would be no more watercolors?
More About 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.
The project is not a reiteration of the “film vs. digital” debate or an attempt to document the end of an era but is an all-encompassing testimony to the relevance of the format to everyone from the asset managers at Universal Studios to the scientists at the Image Permanence Institute to the “common” moviegoer.
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Who We Are
As the world’s largest international association of professional media archivists, AMIA brings together a broad...
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Kickstarter is here!
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Our Film
Why We Film Teaser Why We Film WHY WE FILM explores why and how we engage with film as a physical object and...