On Wednesday, 2 October at 6:00 pm, before the opening ceremony of the 4th BRICS Film Festival, the Film Technology: from amateur to professional exhibition was inaugurated at the UFF Arts Center. Displaying historic film equipment, the exhibition gives the audience the chance to get to know cameras, projectors, sound recorders, and editing equipment.
“One of the key objectives of the exhibition is to reveal the continuous technological changes filmmaking gear underwent throughout film history and to address the transformations of the equipment used to produce so many historic films in recent decades,” explained Rafael de Luna, coordinator of the Audiovisual Preservation University Laboratory (LUPA), at the Department of Film and Video of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), and curator of the exhibition. LUPA supports teaching, research, and extension activities in Audiovisual Preservation and fosters the safeguarding of amateur cinema in the State of Rio de Janeiro.