Education

FILM RESTORATION SUMMER SCHOOL
FIAF SUMMER SCHOOL - BOLOGNA 2008

Theory Lessons on Film Restoration:
distance learning, 27 May – 24 June (every Tuesday)
Introduction and attendance at Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival:
Bologna, 28 June – 5 July
Restoration Practice:
Bologna, 7-12July


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1. Introduction
The experience of the Film Restoration Summer School / FIAF Summer School 2007 has further confirmed the widely-assumed need for specific training in the field of film restoration. Last year we received many enrolment requests, but only 20% of them could be fulfilled.
The above figures have led us to design a two-year project enabling participants to further expand training in the field, with an increased number of enrollments.

The project of the Film Restoration Summer School / FIAF Summer School, which was started in 2007, is part of a wider training programme from Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF), established in 1973.
Thanks to the support of FIAF, the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE), and the EU’s MEDIA programme, the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna has decided to design a two-year training programme on film restoration for the years 2008 and 2009.

The main goal of the Film Restoration Summer School / FIAF Summer School consists in having participants trained in film restoration and in the preservation of film heritage through the adoption and application of analogic and digital technologies. The highly-skilled staff of L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory would offer their long experience as well as the laboratory equipment, which is used in their daily activity, in order to provide for a wide, encompassing and thorough overview of equipment and techniques applied in a film restoration laboratory for reconstruction and restoration. Participants will therefore experience the everyday life and activity in the laboratory while working directly with equipment and machines, starting from film repair and moving on to two parallel - analogic and digital - processes.

Participants should come duly prepared for the practical learning experience in the laboratory, and to this end a week of lectures and meetings has been designed with experts, researchers, archivists and restorers from all over the world, who will expound on their experience on specific subjects.

With the Film Restoration Summer School / FIAF Summer School, participants will acquire the thorough understanding of all the stages of film restoration, the ability to assess the condition of film conservation and to decide what is the best way to proceed in the restoration process.

For more information, including the detailed programme and the application form, please go to: www.cinetecadibologna.it (under Programmi/Didattica) and
www.immagineritrovata.it.