Metropolis - the Process of Restoration and Reconstruction of Motion Picture Film
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Category:
EVENT
Type:
presentation
Keywords:
digitising / film history / philosophy / preservation / still image
Creation Date:
2009-06-20
Language:
English
Description:
(...) The digital processing of a film image within film restoration as well as digital presentation can on the one hand increase the degree of the philological bastard, on the other hand are they a means of deliberate exposition of it. Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) is the example for reconstruction and restoration of film. As well is it the example for digitization within the process of reconstruction and restoration as well as for the presentation of such: The analysis of the 2001 version of Metropolis exposes the line between (digital) reconstruction of an object and its new construction. (...) (F.L.)
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Original Title (English):
Metropolis - the Process of Restoration and Reconstruction of Motion Picture Film
Location:
Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem / Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
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