Our glorious tax dollars at work! Jean-Louis
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:25 AM, Amanda Christie <ama...@amandadawnchristie.ca> > wrote: > > I was just at the National Archives of Canada Preservation Centre this week, > and they have AMAZING optical blow up facilities. > they have all the gates (not just regular 8, super8, 16mm, super 16mm, and > 35mm, but also 9mm, 9.5 mm, and 28 mm). As well as a contact printer and > their own lab. > > Sadly, their facilities can't be accessed by the public, it's only for > working with their own archives and the collection... and double-plus sadly > there is not a lot of support for acquiring art or experimental films.... > hopefully that will change soon.... currently most of the films they acquire > are anything produced through Telefilm Canada or the Canadian Media Fund, > because there are infrastructures in place for all works made through those > programs to be automatically acquired by the National Archives... however, > there are currently no infrastructures in place or policies for regularly > acquiring independent or experimental films... they do have some... but it's > apparently, convincing them to acquire the works can be tricky. > > But at least those facilities exist! > They also have a few rooms full of intercines (including one that was > modified to do 9mm and 28mm)... all of their gear is super clean and in > working order. > > > Amanda Dawn Christie > -------------------------------- > 506-871-2062 > www.amandadawnchristie.ca > ama...@amandadawnchristie.ca > _______________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
