The panel aims to offer an opportunity for historical and theoretical exchange and insight towards the relationships between archival reuse and animation cinema. By bringing together documentary film scholars, animation historians, and experts in artists’ and experimental cinema, the meeting aims to open a dialogue between heterogeneous interpretive perspectives that stand in dialogue with the poetics of contemporary filmmakers, animators and visual artists.

Chair and introduction: Giacomo Ravesi (University of Roma Tre)

Speakers:

Daniele Dottorini (University of Calabria)

The surviving image. Cut-Up and Anachronism

Cristina Formenti (University of Groningen)

Reanimating the archive. Practices of reuse in nonfiction animated cinema.

Alma Mileto (Sapienza University of Rome)

The archive in the vertical. Sound tracks, asynchronies, animated voices.

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The practices: between archive and animation. Round table with Gianluca Abbate (artist and NABA teacher), Leonardo Carrano, Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri, Federica Foglia (artist and NABA teacher), Mario Verger. Moderated by Giacomo Ravesi.