![]() Lisa and I are very grateful to the Public Art Films board members, Carlos, Raquel, Sacha and Brian, for the bottomless well of their support for this project. Victor and Philippe have put together that footage to make a 21 minute film about the editing of Style Wars. Through more good fortune, we engaged Chris Woods who did the digital restoration without hurting the beautiful sensual quality of the original film Gerry Gershman shepherded us through the process of acquiring all the music rights Philippe Deneree selected the best outtakes and edited them into an exciting new document Victor Kanefsky contributed the footage of a film bring shot at his studio, Valkhn Films, in 1983 while he and Sam Pollard were editing Style Wars. Catherine Keener recruited celebrities from the world of film to contribute artworks they had made for a fundraising auction a successful Kickstarter campaign raised enough money to produce the outtakes. In the years since, His widow, Lisa Citron, and I were able to raise the money for the film’s restoration, almost entirely through fan-based donations. ![]() ![]() We were told that once we made the transfer, we could restore the film digitally, frame by frame, but that the cost would be astronomical. To our great disappointment, we discovered that the negative had been badly damaged by moisture during the two decades it had been in storage. For best results you must go back to the first generation, and make the transfer from the original edited negative. About 10 years ago, Tony Silver and I set out to digitize Style Wars in High Definition.
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