Technical Commission
Mission statement
The Technical Commission is FIAF’s professional board covering all technical aspects of photochemical and digital cinema, and its members are individuals who combine technical and scientific knowledge with practical experience in the field.
The Commission’s role is to provide technical information and advice in the field of archiving photochemical and digital film, to recommend restoration and preservation practices in agreement with the FIAF Code of Ethics, to provide support and guidance for film archivists, and to carry out or participate in original research.
An important part of the Commission’s work is to define principles and working practices in order to help archives adapt and plan ahead against a background of continual change by clearly defining the concepts of preservation and access as they relate to different carriers and formats.
The Technical Commission supports the research and dissemination of information regarding the historical practice and technology of moving images, as well as current and emerging technologies of conservation, restoration, and presentation.
The FIAF Technical Commission has a Head, a Deputy Head, and Commission members. In addition, the Commission is able to call upon the expertise of a wider circle of correspondents from various backgrounds.
The Technical Commission publishes glossaries, recommendations, and other resources on the FIAF website.
To achieve these goals, the members of the Commission meet regularly, conduct workshops, present and publish papers, and contribute to the Commission’s ongoing projects.
To contact the TC, please email tc@fiafnet.org.
Commission Members
Head:
Anne Gant, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Members:
Tiago Ganhão, Cinemateca Portuguesa / Museu do Cinema, Lisbon (Deputy Head)
Camille Blot-Wellens, independent film archivist and historian, Stockholm
Caroline Fournier, Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne
Rodrigo Mercês, Cinemateca Brasileira, Sao Paulo
Ulrich Ruedel, HTW / University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
Céline Ruivo, independent consultant, Paris
Kieron Webb, BFI National Archive, London/Berkhamsted
Corresponding members:
Simone Appleby (CNC, Bois d'Arcy), Criss Austin (NARA, College Park), Rob Byrne (San Francisco Silent Film Festival, San Francisco), Oliver Danner (Bundesarchiv, Berlin), Giovanna Fossati (Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam), Teresa (Hui Min) Huang Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute, Taipei), Heather Linville (Library of Congress, Culpeper), Nicolas Nogues (Cinémathèque de Bretagne), Kasandra O'Connell (IFI Irish Film Archive, Dublin), Brigitte Paulowitz (Lichtspiel, Berne), Jeanne Pommeau (Národní filmový archiv, Prague), Valentina Rossetto (Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale, Rome), Julia Wallmüller (Deustche Kinematek, Berlin), David Walsh (FIAF), Florian Wrobel (Filmarchiv Austria), Li Chen Kuo, Egbert Koppe, Reto Kromer, Simon Lund, Léon Rousseau, Mirco Santi, Andréa Seligmann Silva, Jean-Pierre Verscheure.
FIAF Executive Committee Interlocutor: Caroline Fournier
