Die Tödliche Doris
2006
The first example was Dieter Kiessling's "Vorhänge", and in this case the existing drop-outs were retouched one by one using Final Cut Pro. Another work restored with Final Cut Pro and Photoshop was Marcel Odenbach's "As if memories could deceive me". This was only possible because the number of errors was very small, and so it was feasible to spend 20 or more minutes treating a single frame. For "Holzstücke", by Jean-Francois Guiton, because of the different characteristics and problems in each of the 6 pieces, it was easier to do the treatment separately for each piece. In this case there were 2 image defects that were kept. Both defects were connected to the editing process, and were not the result of deterioration. In such cases the defects are part of the work's authenticity and, from a restoration point of view, should not be corrected. A similar process was used for Friederike Pezold's "Die neue leibhaftige Zeichensprache", which was also composed of different short pieces. A different strategy was used for Dieter Froese's "The piece in the country" and Valie Export's "Raumsehen und Raumhören". For both artworks we had a camera original and an edited master. In Export's w…
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