{"id":9139,"date":"2023-03-01T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/were-not-taking-care-of-it-why-film-preservation-should-be-prioritized\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:37:36","slug":"were-not-taking-care-of-it-why-film-preservation-should-be-prioritized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/were-not-taking-care-of-it-why-film-preservation-should-be-prioritized\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re not taking care of it\u2019: why film preservation should be prioritized"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new documentary acts as a cautionary tale urging us to be more aware of how we store and preserve what we film and watch<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a widely taken-for-granted consensus that in film lies immortality; in Damien Chazelle\u2019s recent drama Babylon, a Tinseltown gossip columnist waxes rhapsodic about how actors captured on celluloid effectively live forever in posterity, her general sentiment reiterated in higher-minded terms by reams of film theory scholarship. Advertising lingo rebranded cherished memories as \u201cKodak moments\u201d in response to our species\u2019 innate desire to freeze a fleeting unit of time as a physical quantity we can revisit over and over at our leisure. This line of thinking is understandable, seeing as anyone can click over to the internet and watch 100-year-old footage of working-class daily life. But In\u00e9s Toharia needs everyone to know that it\u2019s also fundamentally mistaken.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going so fast as a society that we don\u2019t always realize what we\u2019re leaving behind,\u201d she tells the Guardian from her home in Spain. \u201cWe should pause to think about saving our digital materials, because they don\u2019t last forever. And a lot of video today isn\u2019t even meant to last, things like security camera footage, a lot of what\u2019s on YouTube. We\u2019re producing more than ever, but we\u2019re not taking care of it. A friend shows me a video of their kid taking their first steps, I think, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s not going to last.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nA new documentary acts as a cautionary tale urging us to be more aware of how we store and preserve what we film and watch
\nThere\u2019s a widely taken-for-granted consensus that in film lies immortality; in Damien Chazelle\u2019s recent drama Babylon, a Tinseltown gossip columnist waxes rhapsodic about how actors captured on celluloid effectively live forever in posterity, her general sentiment reiterated in higher-minded terms by reams of film theory scholarship. Advertising lingo rebranded cherished memories as \u201cKodak moments\u201d in response to our species\u2019 innate desire to freeze a fleeting unit of time as a physical quantity we can revisit over and over at our leisure. This line of thinking is understandable, seeing as anyone can click over to the internet and watch 100-year-old footage of working-class daily life. But In\u00e9s Toharia needs everyone to know that it\u2019s also fundamentally mistaken.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going so fast as a society that we don\u2019t always realize what we\u2019re leaving behind,\u201d she tells the Guardian from her home in Spain. \u201cWe should pause to think about saving our digital materials, because they don\u2019t last forever. And a lot of video today isn\u2019t even meant to last, things like security camera footage, a lot of what\u2019s on YouTube. We\u2019re producing more than ever, but we\u2019re not taking care of it. A friend shows me a video of their kid taking their first steps, I think, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s not going to last.\u2019\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new documentary acts as a cautionary tale urging us to be more aware of how we store and preserve what we film and watch There\u2019s a widely taken-for-granted consensus that in film lies immortality; in Damien Chazelle\u2019s recent drama Babylon, a Tinseltown gossip columnist waxes rhapsodic about how actors captured on celluloid effectively live …<\/p>\n

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