Reframing the Future of Film with Christopher Nolan and Tacita Dean

Film Heritage Foundation had presented ‘Reframing the Future of Film 4′ - an event headlined by celebrated visual artist Tacita Dean and acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan held in Mumbai on March 30, 31 & April 1, 2018.
In Los Angeles in 2015, Tacita Dean and Christopher Nolan staged the first in this series of important events highlighting the necessity of preserving photochemical film in the digital age. Both are passionate advocates within their fields for film - not simply as a technology - but as a medium that offers intrinsically rich and unique qualities needed by artists and filmmakers, as well as a hugely engaging experience for audiences.
Beginning at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Reframing the Future of Film brought together significant professionals for the first time from art, film preservation and the cinema industry to discuss the tangible steps that needed to be taken to protect the medium of film and its legacy in order to reposition its importance in an aggressive digital market. Subsequent events have been held in Tate Modern in London in conjunction with the BFI during the London Film Festival and at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.
In association with Film Heritage Foundation, Dean and Nolan had joined Shivendra Singh Dungarpur to stage the fourth incarnation of Reframing the Future of Film 4 in Mumbai held on March 30th, 31st & April 1st, 2018.
Through the event, Nolan and Dean had explored the importance and differences of shooting on film and why it is essential to keep it available as a medium for future generations. They had also focused on preserving on film and seeing films projected on film as an essential part of our visual experience and history, asking how can any cultural heritage remain intelligible when handed down to future generations without attention to its medium? And finally they had discussed the necessity of determining new archival and exhibition standards that secure film’s future, and why the debate around film needs to change.

[@TirthLaskar94]

Had the good fortune of being there back in April 2018. Good going Film Heritage Foundation 👏

[@FatPunkStudio]

An amazing and important job you are doing. Long live celluloid and physical media!

[@vahidfrzh9379]

Plot twist: This event shot with digital a digital camera

[@AbhishekGupta-rg2jv]

Thank you for your amazing work.

[@parthchopra2811]

Consider lowering the music so dialogues can be more audible. And please also consider adding dates of the events. I was under the impression that this was a rather latest event. Slightly misleading is all I’m saying.

[@paulChannel196]

Yeah fantastic medium, covered in spots and scratches

[@PranavBhasin]

❤

[@Tomhardy8969]

They should have showed Nolan our Ancient Indian temples and architecture structure standing little over thousands of years in perfect condition till date .

[@rajarajanmanoharan]

you got some dialogue in your music.

[@stevancrary8722]

lol this was probably shot digitally.

[@byronwylder]

Yeah because there's things digital is better for, and there are things film is better for. Like Shivendra Singh Dungarpur says, until 2014 celluloid was what movies were shot on - big, small, any genre or medium. It's crazy to think we could lose that in less than fifteen years and it's probably worth considering what that actually means for the future of the artform.

[@VikrantPatankar13]

Just because a paint workshop poster is designed in Photoshop, doesn't mean you will quit painting lmao

[@mukeshkumaravel9361]

No its actualluy shot on film.

[@tonybinky20]

You can tell from the grain they shot on film

[@TheDylanHoang]

​@@tonybinky20 This grain is not authentic, it's something added in post. Grain is not the only distinctive feature of film and just because something has "grain" shouldn't automatically mean it's on film.

[@LucieEntity]

.... Now to get the audio right!

[@KhaldyFathy]

♥♥

[@sanghamithrank9035]

❤❤

[@CineHazique]

I'm so excited to see Interstellar in theaters on it's re release

[@jerin7078]

Reframing Interstellar on 35 MM celluloid? 😳 I want to be there 😭

[@VikrantPatankar13]

Yes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/apjaiqmar6lnbq8

[@frankilinfujid]

as if srk cares about this! hahaha