Eight pieces of writing have been commissioned for Keep Moving Images. Written by an international selection of archivists, conservators and curators, each of these case studies discuss a particular project or area of work, and two offer interviews with the artists, Malcolm Le Grice and Dryden Goodwin in regard to their thoughts about preservation.

The case studies are listed below with some information about the writer and subject, or artist. You can click on a link to get access to the paper. They also crop-up through the course of the site, where appropriate, illustrating or providing counterpoint to that which is discussed in the section.

- Dryden Goodwin interviewed by Mike Sperlinger
Mike Sperlinger talked to Goodwin about his work and issues around preservation, including how he documents and archives his multi-media installations.

-The Many Mona Lisas: An Interview with Malcolm Le Grice by Mike Sperlinger
Malcolm Le Grice has tended to work with the very particularities of his chosen medium and yet always seems to move on, giving little thought to his work from the past. Mike Sperlinger talks then to the moving image artist about his thought towards preservation and the future of his various work; film, video and performance.

- UNDERSTANDING MEDIUM: preserving content and context in variable media art by Caitlin Jones
Working at the Guggenheim Gallery, New York, a part of the Variable Media Network, Caitlin Jones suggests other ways of thinking about preserving work by focusing on the message and not the medium, and through the placement of work in categorises not of format but behaviour.

- The Fragile Emulsion by Jon Gartenberg
The film preservationist and former curator of the archive at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, outlines the principles for approaching the preservation of experimental films. He does so using various films as examples, including those by Jack Waters and Warren Sonbert.

- Film Restoration . . . Film Preservation . . . by Mark Toscano
Mark Toscano draws on his experiences from working at both Canyon Cinema and the Academy Film Archive to provide advice about looking after film, as well as indicating the precise physicality of individual films through details of the film stock and lab work. He does this with examples of films made by among others, Stan Brakhage, James Whitney and Michael Snow.

- Preserving the film of Margaret Tait by Janet McBain
The curator of the Scottish Screen Archive talks through the problems and solutions of preserving the films of the artist filmmaker, Margaret Tait. These films don't always existing in definitive versions and some of them are hand-painted.

- Video Art Preservation by Gaby Wijers
From the Foundation for the Conservation of Modern Art, Amsterdam, Gaby Wiijers describes some of the facets of looking after video and goes onto discuss the collaborative work of Project Preservation Video Art.

- Video - Resisting Definition by Jackie Hatfield
Jackie Hatfield outlines the philosophy, processes and methodologies for the project, REWIND: Artists Video in the 70’s and 80’s, in this contributing paper. In doing so she also draws out the logistics of re-mastering and re-evaluation.