Edu – Tools

III Editon – 2025

Found Footage, Orphan films, Archives and rewriting of self in the body of the film

Moderated by Giacomo Ravesi.

Moderated by Emiliano Morreale.

Stories, theories, practices

Chair: Giacomo Ravesi (Università degli Studi 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.

Archival reuse and generative Artificial Intelligence

Chair: Simone Arcagni (Università IULM)
Introductions: Vincenzo Vita (Presidente Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico)
Speakers: Alberto Ciprian (Rai Research Centre) AI and Archives. New ways for content creation; Donatella Della Ratta (John Cabot University) AI as archive; Laurence McFalls (Université de Montréal) The magic of home movies, the illusions of AI; Teresa Numerico (University of Roma Tre) AI generativity and memory archiving.

II Edition – 2024

Moderated by Marco Bertozzi.

Moderated by Alberto Crespi.

A meet with Kamal Aljafari

Moderated by Fabio Ferzetti.

A meet with Bill Morrison

Moderated by Rossella Catanese.

Archival thoughts and practices between feminism and decoloniality

Chair: Marco Bertozzi, Alina Marazzi
Speakers: Alessandra Beltrame (Cinescatti Archive Collaborator, Lab 80); Giulia Castelletti (Manager, Curator Cinescatti Archive, Lab 80 film); Luciana Fina (Director, CIEBA – Fine Arts, University of Lisbon); Ilaria Fraioli (Editor); Alma Mileto (Sapienza Università di Roma); Igiaba Scego (Writer); Giulia Simi (University of Sassari, Archivio Aperto); Patrizia Cacciani (Head of the Office of Studies, Research, Education and Library, Archivio Luce – Cinecittà).

Forms, practices, experiences

A time to meet and reflect on ways of reusing archival images, from authorial poetics to public implications, from ethical to aesthetic aspects.

I Edition – 2023

Moderated by Alina Marazzi.

A dialogue between archives about the processing of audiovisual repertoire, from conservation to fruition.

Chair: Paolo Tosini (Director Conservation e management of audiovisual patrimony Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – National Film School)
Speakers: Letizia Cortini (Archivist, Audiovisual Archive of the Democratic and Labour Movement) with Giovanni Bruno (President, Regesta.exe); Fabrizio Micarelli ((Area Manager conservation, Archivio Luce); Laurence McFalls (Director Open Memory Box); Maurizio Prece (Area Manager data, Archivio Luce); Andrea Meneghelli (Area Manager film archive, Cineteca di Bologna); Davide Pozzi (Director laboratory of film restoration L’Immagine Ritrovata); Maria Assunta Pimpinelli (Area Manager Collections and Filmic Repertoire, Italian Natonal Film Library); Mirco Santi ((Area Manager laboratory of restoration and digitalization, Co-founder, Home Movies – Italian National Home Movies Archive).

A comparison between the principal training courses dedicated to the found footage pratices

Chair: Marco Bertozzi
Speakers: Alessia Petitto (Archive Producer); Annalisa Forgione (Editing teacher, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – National Film School); Costanza Quatriglio (Drector Documentary School, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – National Film School); Danilo Torre (Docente montaggio, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia); Antonio Medici (Director Premio Zavattini); Karianne Fiorini (President and curator Re-framing home movies project); Gianmarco Torri (Secretary general and curator Re-framing home movies project); Giacomo Ravesi (Scientific Director, Art Residence Suoni & Visioni); Giuseppe Ferrari (Area Manager conservation and digitalization, Ri-prese project); Nicoletta Traversa (Area Manager conservation and digitalization, Ri-prese project).