Film Preservationist Mark Toscano on Artistic Interpretation and Digital Accessibility

Portrait of Mark Toscano.
What does your role as a film preservationist entail?
Over the last seventeen years, I’ve preserved or restored artist and experimental films, animations, documentaries, and independent features. My job includes technical, curatorial, and research processes, aesthetic evaluation, working with filmmakers or their estates, curating programs, and sometimes collaborating with galleries and distributors. On individual projects, I generally do research, inspection, eval