Submissions are now closed!

We invite scholars and practitioners in film preservation, arts restoration, and other related disciplines to come together and share each field’s best practices and hardest challenges, especially in light of the advent of digital technology, as well as reflections on the effects that preservation issues have on each field’s theory and historiography.

The main issues that we would like to address include, but are by no means limited to:

• Relationships between film preservation and other kinds of restoration or editorial practice
• Relationships between original and copy in cinema and the other arts
• The fate of archival film material that has been rendered supposedly obsolete by the introduction of digital technology
• Ways in which digital tools can capture and preserve the technological uniqueness of analog artifacts for future generations
• The lack of a standard protocol for documenting film preservation workflows
• The absence of platforms to share documentation with preservation practitioners, scholars, and researchers
• Strategies for promoting analog film collections and their history
• Cinema’s place within the broader cultural heritage framework, also as regards national and international laws and policies regulating restoration and preservation
• Object biographies of films and film collections
• Best practices for digitizing film and ensuring the long-term survival of preservation files

Submission requirements:

• The conference will be held in English.
• Proposals should include an abstract of 300-500 words, plus a 100-word biography of the submitter(s) and contact details.
• Deadline for submission is June 1, 2025.
• Acceptance notices will be sent in mid-June.

Submit your session proposal to the organizers using our online form.