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Traineeships Film Restoration and Film Collection

The traineeships Film Restoration and Film Collection are designed to educate a new generation of film restorers and film collection specialists, and seek to facilitate their transition into the labour market.

Still from La chenille de carotte (1911, director unknown).
Still from La chenille de carotte (1911, director unknown).

These paid positions will provide a part time on-the-job training (four days a week) for ten months under the guidance of experienced curators, restorers, scanning operators, and collection specialists who deal with the management and preservation of both analogue and digital collections. Throughout the programme, the trainees will follow different but parallel curricula, working with material from the Eye collection, and each following a project from start to finish.

The curriculum addresses various aspects of analogue and digital film processes, such as film reconstruction, research into restoration history, reporting on restoration work, film repair, grading, film printing, scanning, film development, quality control, sound restoration, digital image restoration, nitrate film identification, film registration, collection management, metadata, born digital ingest, digital access, and digital sustainability (storage).

Contact

Currently, we have no upcoming open calls planned. If you want to stay updated on future open calls, sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of this page. For your reference, you can find the previous open call for applications here.

If you have any questions, please contact Eleni Tzialli (Coordinator) via eyeacademic@eyefilm.nl

Trainees

The Traineeship programme Film Restoration and Film Collection is a continuation of two pilot editions of the Eye Filmmuseum & Haghefilm Digitaal Traineeship Film Restoration.

2023 - 2024

Meg Weijers (Film Collection)
Estelle Kaufmann (Film Restoration)

2022 - 2023

Matthias Smith (Film Collection)
Aleksas Gilaitis (Film Restoration)

2021 - 2022

Martine Bouw (Film Collection)
Carolina Battaglini (Film Restoration)

2019 - 2020

Li-Chen Kuo

2017 - 2018

Tulta Behm

This programme has been made possible by:

Still from Le charmeur (1906, Segundo de Chomón).
Still from Le charmeur (1906, Segundo de Chomón).