Methods and techniques for Color film restoration

Color restoration, digitization and management requires skills in physics, chemistry, optics, computer science as well as art, psychology, design and visual language. In this heterogeneous context, film restoration is a fascinating field of application which provides to students examples and records of successful (or unsuccessful) multidisciplinary methods and techniques to restore and manage colors through different media. A film can be considered as a content in which color is used to raise emotions or support the storytelling, or can be seen as a container, made of colorants which age and decay through the years. In the Master course of Color, Design and Technology, we introduce the students to the field of color film restoration, and we guide them through the different techniques and methods to perform the main actions of digitization, retrieval and conservation. Through this approach, we focus on the main actions to keep under control in order to perform a correct color reproduction and management.