A new partnership between the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and The Warhol in Pittsburgh will help preserve Andy Warhol’s entire film collection. Approximately 500 of the Pop artist’s films, which have resided in MoMA’s collection since the early 1990s, will be digitized. The award-winning visual effects company MPC will assist in the frame-by-frame scanning of over 1,000 rolls of 16mm film and the subsequent conversion to high resolution images. The project, which begins this month, is expected to take several years to complete.
While a few Warhol films such as “Empire” (1964) and “The Chelsea Girls” (1966) are icons of avant-garde cinema, many of the works in MoMA’s collection have never been seen by the public.
