Our Process

Our Process

Conservation is aimed at all types of film materials housed at the CCR, including photochemical, electronic, and digital formats. The conservation service addresses the criteria, methods, and techniques needed to safeguard this rich cultural heritage. Its work focuses on establishing preventive measures for conservation, intervening to stabilize materials, restoring with professional standards, preserving the meaning of each work through the preservation of materials, and providing the means for their dissemination.

The treatment of photochemical supports, whether negative or positive, follows a process of reception, inspection, viewing, preventive and curative treatment, and restoration. Additionally, the CCR has environmentally controlled storage facilities for optimal preservation of collections, with continuous control of temperature, relative humidity, volatile components, and ventilation.

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

In all cases, collections are safeguarded under a digital preservation plan that establishes the digitization conditions for conservation and access to the collections. This line of work, specific to film heritage, presents technological challenges, with complex facilities that require significant investment, methodological challenges, as digital restoration has grown with standards that still need academic development, and conceptual challenges in selecting priorities and ensuring the sustainability of the system.

Currently, it has a digital laboratory equipped with 4K digitization equipment, digital restoration systems, and high-resolution dissemination material generation.