Speaker: Sara Supply, assistant to Eija-Liisa Ahtila
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Abstract
The film installations Ahtila produces deal with individual identity, with human relationships, sexuality, and the difficulty of communication. The “human dramas” in her films are based on research, on real and fictive events, on the experiences and memories of herself and others. The installations & films are produced in long term cooperation with a professional production company with the aim for a high quality original material which can then be transferred & worked into a presentable format without losing much of the image quality. The presentation format has changed during the years VHS/S-VHS/DVD/HD-file in order to present the work in the best possible quality available. Co-working with a Helsinki AV company the artist carries through the requirements for each installation in the various exhibitions; guidance and supervision when put on display guaranteed by specific loan agreements to achieve f.i. the same image quality on multi-screen installations. When an installation is sold to a collection (private/public/museum) they receive a package including all essential material connected to the work as a Digibeta (or the equivalent original format) master, two sets of exhibition DVDs (new sets can be made from the master when required), preview material and also information on the artist (CV, bibliography, press, catalogues). The actual conservation issues with Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s works are questions with the changes of the original technical devices and the preservation of the original & raw material (S-16 mm film, Betacam SP, DigiBeta, SR, HD etc.). Does the nature of the work change as the presentation formats are adapted to the match the present technical equipment, and what entails the production company plans for digitizing original/raw material in order to ensure their preservation.
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