Clara Sánchez Dehesa
Spain
Overview
From her beginnings in the restoration of graphic documents to her specialisation in film, Clara Sánchez Dehesa unveils the challenges and secrets of film archives. She is passionate about home and amateur cinema, and she has promoted initiatives such as the Home Cinema Day in Vitoria, inviting the community to share their home movies, thus highlighting their historical and emotional value.
Clara also highlights the educational value of archives, comparing their materiality to skin wrinkles, which reveal both history and care. She encourages us to realise the intrinsic value of moving images and to use our collective visual memory as a source of inspiration for future films.
Chapters
How do you land in the cinema world?
How is the daily job of a cinema archivist?
What constitutes restoring a film?
What is your relationship with home cinema?
How do these home films reach you?
What information do you need to extract from these films?
What is the category and content of home cinema?
How do you work with filmmakers that want to use home cinema?
What challenges and possibilities have each of the film formats that exist?
What filter criteria exist in today's digital world?
What is the responsibility of film archives?
Found material: legal and ethical use possibilities.
Bio
Clara Sánchez Dehesa attended the acclaimed L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester, NY. She has had a wide career, working in collection management, restoration, and training. She has coordinated the master's degree in Archiving program at Elías Querejeta Film School from its creation. She frequently works with public archives, including the Navarra Film Archive and the Archive of the Historical Territory of Alava. She has completed restoration work for Tabakalera and private individuals, and she promotes her profession through courses, speeches, and her blog. She is an active member of national and international associations, with a large professional network.
