Cinema, akin to life, is a constant act of archiving
Projects & Assistantships
2021-Present
Teaching Assistanceship
Teaching Assistanceship for various modules for both Bachelor and Master programme
Conservation and Restoration
Faculty 5: Culture and Design, HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany
April-May 2024
Post-production Supervisor
Audiovisual post-production of research project "Museums & Society: Mapping the Social"
Philosophical Faculty, Humboldt University, Berlin
https://museumsandsociety.net/de/news/publikationen/goddess-durga-unveiled-the-timeless-power-of-emotion-g%C3%B6ttin-durga-entschleiert-die-zeitlose-kraft-der-emotionen
Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Ranjamrittika Bhowmik, Humboldt University, Berlin
Project Guide: Prof. Dr. Tahani Nadim, Humboldt University, Berlin
February 2024
Project Assistant
Assisting in the preparation of the digitization of historical tinted and toned film reels from the collection of Bundesarchiv, Germany for Scan2Screen, "a modular multispectral digitization workflow for historical film colors", an intiative by Prof. Dr. Barbara Flueckiger and team
https://scan2screen.com/
Project Guides: Prof. Dr. Barbara Flueckiger, Lutz Garmsen, Scan2Screen US LLC
August-November 2023
Research Assistant
Assisting in the publication "One Film at a Time" by Shai Heredia
Published by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/campus/publikationen/one-film-at-a-time/
And the cultural-historical research supporting the restoration and reconstruction of BADNAM BASTI (India, Prem Kapoor, 1971)
Project Guide: Markus Ruff, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin
June-September 2021
Internship
Bundesarchiv, Hoppegarten, Berlin, Germany
Intern at the Archive Technic 3 (AT3) department
Engaged with cataloguing, collection management, film inspection, film comparison, restoration, film cleaning, digitisation of both visual and audio elements, and digital restoration
2021-2022
Collection Management and Digitisation
Chemical restoration and digitization of large-format cellulose acetate negatives from the Dalman Collection
In collaboration with the University of Greifswald
Project Guides: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Rüdel & Prof. Dr. Susanne Kähler, HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
May-October 2020
Microscopic Investigation of Historical Film Colour Process
Research project “Mikroskopische Studien historischer Filmfarben“ (Microscopic Studies of Historical Film Colors)
https://www.film.uzh.ch/de/research/projects/verbund/microscope.html
Project Guides: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Rüdel, HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin & Prof. Dr. Barbara Flueckiger, University of Zurich
December 2018-April 2020
Microscopic Investigation of Historical Paper Fibres
Research project “Material - Beziehung - Geschlecht”
Artifacts from the Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
In collaboration with Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten & Volkswagenstiftung
https://www.kz-artefakte.de/ueber-das-projekt/
Project Guide: Prof. Ruth Keller, HTW - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin