About

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.