*Well, since it's no longer an industry, maybe it can be a handicraft.
*She's sort of great.
https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201508&id=54974
"ANYONE WHO WORKS WITH FILM, whether they shoot, project, or preserve it, will bear witness to the hitherto unimaginable speed and near-exhaustive prosecution with which the medium has been annihilated over the last half decade. The new digital technology inevitably excited and dominated the market with incentives and capitulations in equal measure, plunging film into probable economic extinction and an adversarial and defensive position with no chance of equivalence.
" “Old-fashioned,” “obsolete,” “dying”—“end-of-life technology”—became the ubiquitous fare of the press and the general rhetoric used by an industry newly set against the medium on which it was built. As film was rapidly vanquished, next to no value or consideration was given to the scale of the cultural and artistic losses that would result if film were allowed to just simply disappear.
"As an artist who makes and exhibits film for reasons indexical to the medium, I had no choice but to resist the situation and try to counteract the overwhelming pessimism, intransigence, and ignorance, willful or otherwise, that surround any discussion about film. So as artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, I collaborated with director Christopher Nolan and Kerry Brougher, director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, to host an event last March that brought together around one table for the first time individuals from all areas of film use—commercial filmmaking, art, exhibition, and preservation—to develop strategies that would sustain, reinvigorate, and encourage the use of film.
"Involved in the conversation were institutional heads and representatives from various archives and organizations, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Film Foundation, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Sundance Institute, George Eastman House, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, FotoKem, and Kodak. The boardroom discussion was followed later in the day by a public conversation in the Getty Center’s Harold M. Williams Auditorium between Nolan, Brougher, and myself.
"Despite every counterindication, film continues to show its resilience, and the tide appears to be turning. However, there is still considerable work to be done. A deal signed between Kodak and the six major movie studios in February 2015, which guaranteed the purchase of an agreed-upon amount of film stock, reenergized a company on the point of giving up motion-film production. And it needs to be clearly stated here: Had we lost Kodak, we would have lost film…."
