Very sorry to hear this. I've been using Cinemalab for the past year and
Robert and Dan have always done really good work for me.
Robert told me today they plan to push forward with scanning and digital
preservation. I'm certainly glad they'll survive in some incarnation, but
their processing and printing services will be sorely missed by the community.
Brian Wilson
On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 6:02 PM, Sean Weitzel <[email protected]>
wrote:
Denver real estate is really messing up small businesses. It looks like
DR5.com is out of business for a while. They got forced out of their building
as well.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
This is sad to hear! I remember those 4am drop-offs fondly as well...
On Feb 16, 2016, at 12:40, Jason Halprin <[email protected]> wrote:
So sorry to hear about this. I remember dropping off envelopes with daylight
boxes full of film and cash payments at 4am in Englewood through the slot in
the door, and being able to pick up my workprints soon after noon during my
college days. Later, I worked with them on the timing and release printing of
my graduate thesis film. The care and attention they gave to experimental work,
as well as the time Robert spent with me on the phone and in person to explain
the best way to get the look I wanted was valuable to me, and I'm sure to many
others. They will be missed.
-JH
Jason Halprin
[email protected]
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Robert Schaller <[email protected]> wrote:
In the end, it happened suddenly. There had been difficult negotiations with
an avaricious landlord for a few months. It looked like it would be worked
out, that there were at least three months before any move would need to be
contemplated, but some ten days ago the landlord arbitrarily decided that he
needed another $1,000 a month effective immediately. It was the proverbial
straw that broke the camel's back, and the lab decided to say no. A week ago
was the final processing run; tomorrow the last things leave the building.
One of three processing machines is being saved, intended for a new artist-run
lab in Denver. I grieve for the others, but they were too big and there was no
time.
So passes a lab that has consistently been a vital part of the experimental
film world. They printed many, many important and beautiful films from
Brakhage's Interim in 1952 to Mothlight to the work of Phil Solomon to Nick
Dorsky's most recent work. They will be missed, a casualty of a changing
commercial landscape and, oddly, of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado
that has driven up rent for warehouse space.
There are a number of optical and contact printers, optical sound recorders,
etc., that have been saved. Please contact Robert David, the owner of
Cinemalab, at 303 783 1020 or [email protected] for more information.
Meanwhile, Cinemalab continues it's digital mastering and film transfer work.
In a much smaller space…
RIP, Cinemalab.
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