Book Launch: The Archival Impermanence Project by Ross Lipman

Award-winning archivist and filmmaker Ross Lipman discusses his celebrated restorations.

  • Total running time 50min

The Archival Impermanence Project (Sticking Place Books) is an essential new resource for those interested in the elusive art of film restoration, integrating detailed case studies from the dawn of cinema to present day, in the framework of an organic theory of practice. Join award-winning archivist and filmmaker Ross Lipman (Notfilm) in a discussion of his celebrated restorations.

Formerly Senior Film Restorationist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Lipman’s many restorations include Barbara Loden’s Wanda, Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles, the Academy Award-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, and works by Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Shirley Clarke, Charles Burnett, Kenneth Anger, Lourdes Portillo, Robert Altman, and John Cassavetes.

Tickets £4.

Copies of The Archival Impermanence Project will be available from the BFI Shop.