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We are an artist-run, boutique style film lab with killer pricing and world-class quality for both Motion Picture and Photo

Images by Nicki Coyle

Images by Garrit Speiss and Taylor Elwood

ABOUT

Nicki Coyle is a film preservationist, digital restoration artist, photochemical engineer, colorist, and an expert in film scanning and motion picture workflows.

“I worked for years at a motion picture film lab, Cinemalab Preservation Inc., the facility that preserved The Brakhage Collection. At Cinemalab I worked as the primary lab tech, printing and processing millions of feet of film for both production and preservation, and helped to build the digital restoration department. Here I created the lab’s dye-fade correction processes and restoration workflows using the Digital Vision toolsets. The lab closed its photochemical services in 2016 due to rising costs of facilities.

After the lab closed, I opened my own business to offer high end film scanning, restoration, and media transfer. With this I have continued Cinemalab’s work by handling many of our previous clients and running many of the original machines and procedures. My studio uses a high end production and archival level machine, the Lasergraphics Scanstation 6.5K HDR film scanner, which can handle any 8, 16, and 35 format for filmmakers, archives, and museums

Now the next stage in my mission is underway… Bringing high quality and affordable laboratory services to analog filmmakers. To do this I’ve secured a film processor and plan on offering supreme quality with insane pricing! Click here to learn more”

The Negative Space was previously known as Nicholas Coyle Film and Video Transfer, LLC

A FEW SAMPLES…

Nicki has worked on projects for archives and museums such as:

  • Universal Studios

  • The Smithsonian

  • Eastman Museum

  • Ski and Snowboard Museum

  • UCLA

  • Gates Capital Management

  • History Colorado

  • Cinemalab Preservation Inc.

  • Many more…

  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Academy Film Archive)

  • The Criterion Collection and the Criterion Channel

  • Denver Museum of Nature and Science

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

  • Center for Southwest Studies

  • Polynesian Voyaging Society

  • Hula Preservation Society

  • Wichita Sedgwick County Historical Museum

  • World Figure Skating Museum

  • MoMA