The Danish Film Institute is the national Danish film institution in charge of preserving Danish film heritage, both analogue and digital born. A successful ongoing digitization project is “Denmark on film”, where film and footage from the country is displayed on a map, so online audiences can access more than 100 years of moving images from their home town. Recently funding has been found to digitize all surviving Danish silent fiction films, around 400 films. The presentation will present these projects and consider different strategies to digitize and their consequences. Digitization sounds easy, but is a very complex activity and much effort is needed before a film is easily available online.

Thomas Christensen  Thomas Christensen (Danish Film Institute) is M.A. in film studies from the University of Copenhagen. He has been Curator at the Danish Film Institute since 1998. Main areas of responsibility are preservation and restoration of Danish cinema and international projects. He has served on the FIAF Technical Commission 2003-15. Since 2010 he has been on the Executive Committee of ACE, and has given external expert advice to many archives, including BFI, Cinematheque royale (Belgium), Montenegro and North Macedonia. Currently he is involved in a five year digitization project on all surviving Danish silent films, more than 400 titles to be made available online by 2023.