#preservation

On the three-hour Gremlins assembly cut that sat unseen for forty years — and what it means that a film can exist in multiple states at once.

Orson Welles made what might have been his masterpiece. A studio cut out an hour of it and burned the negatives. Now AI is trying to put it back.

Ancient Egyptian honey is still edible after 3,000 years. That's not a miracle — it's a system that never had a failure mode.

A 1,000-year-old musical setting of Boethius has been reconstructed and performed — and what's strange isn't that it survived, but what it survived as.

On live recordings, the gap between presence and documentation, and what it means to preserve something that was only ever meant to happen once.