Iluminace 2020, 32(4):124-130 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1690

"Not Corrected or Otherwise Manipulated": Digitizing the Films of Jan Kříženecký (Jiří Anger (ed.), Filmy Jana Kříženeckého / The Films of Jan Kříženecký)

Benoît Turquety

Benoît Turquety's review presents the DVD and Blu-ray edition of Jan Kříženecký's films, produced by the National Film Archive, highlighting in particular the radical and non-interventionist approach to digitization, which rejects traditional retouching and color correction. edition of Jan Kříženecký's films produced by the National Film Archive, highlighting in particular the radical and non-interventionist approach to digitization, which rejects traditional retouching or artificial adjustments to the frame rate and instead reveals to viewers the raw material nature and historical patina of the oldest Czech film works.

Keywords: Jan Kříženecký, early cinema, film digitization, material nature of film

Published: December 1, 2020  Show citation

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Turquety, B. (2020). "Not Corrected or Otherwise Manipulated": Digitizing the Films of Jan Kříženecký (Jiří Anger (ed.), Filmy Jana Kříženeckého / The Films of Jan Kříženecký). Iluminace, 32(4), 124-130. doi: 10.58193/ilu.1690
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    References

    1. Ashley Kahn, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters [booklet] (New York: Verve - Impulse! - Universal, 2015).
    2. Jiří Anger (ed.), Filmy Jana Kříženeckého / The Films of Jan Kříženecký [booklet] (Praha: Národní filmový archiv, 2019).
    3. Bryony Dixon (ed.), Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil Films from Pathé (London: BFI, 2012).
    4. Béla Balázs, Erica Carter (ed.), Early Film Theory: Visible Man and The Spirit of Film (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010).

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