Pitching the Archive

Public Pitch

a reversal of common practice in which archives and libraries propose their own materials on accessible terms for artistic reuse.

Moderator – Rossella Catanese (Università della Tuscia, NYU Florence)

Rossella Catanese is an associate professor at the Università della Tuscia (Viterbo) and adjunct professor at NYU Florence. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Università di Udine and at IMT School for Advanced Studies di Lucca. Her research focuses on film restoration, cinematheques, and experimental cinema. Among her books are the collections Italian Experimental Cinema and Moving-Image Art: New Paths, New Perspectives, co-edited with Jennifer Malvezzi (2025); From Sensation to Synaesthesia in Film and New Media (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, with Francesca Scotto Lavina e Valentina Valente), and Futurist Cinema. Studies in Italian Avant-garde Film (Amsterdam University Press, 2018). She also received the Sixth Marcel Duchamp Research Grant from the Staatliches Museum Schwerin (Germany) in 2023.