Lines of Work

Technical Inspection Our Process

Conservation focuses on all types of film materials housed at the CCR, including photochemical, electronic, and digital formats. The conservation service addresses the criteria, methods, and techniques required to safeguard this rich cultural heritage. Its work involves establishing preventive measures for preservation, intervening to stabilize materials, restoring them with professional standards, protecting the integrity and meaning of each work through material preservation, and ensuring the availability of materials that allow for their dissemination.

The treatment of photochemical media, whether negatives or positives, follows a process of reception, inspection, viewing, preventive and curative treatment, and restoration. Additionally, the CCR has environmentally controlled storage facilities to ensure the best preservation of collections, with monitoring of temperature, relative humidity, volatile components, and continuous ventilation.

For electronic and digital formats, treatment necessarily involves maintaining technologically obsolete but unique equipment that allows access to the content for viewing and processing.

In all cases, collections are safeguarded within the framework of a digital preservation plan, which establishes the conditions for digitization to ensure both conservation and access. This line of work, specific to film heritage, presents technological challenges with complex facilities requiring significant investment, methodological challenges as digital restoration continues to develop with criteria still under academic refinement, and conceptual challenges regarding the selection of priorities and system sustainability.

Currently, the CCR is equipped with a digital laboratory featuring 4K digitization equipment, digital restoration systems, and high-resolution materials for dissemination.