Working Group

Simone Venturini

Senior professor, he deals with the history and theory of archive practices, film philology and restoration, media archaeology and the productive and cultural history of Italian cinema. Co-founder of the laboratory La Camera Ottica, he is a member of the scientific committee of L’Avventura and of the steering committee of Immagine and Ultracorpi. He is the director of the Plexus series. He publishes for Springer, MUP, AUP, Carocci, Marsilio, and magazines such as The Moving Image, Journal of Film Preservation, Cinéma & Cie, Cinergie, Schermi.

Clément Lafite

Clément Lafite is a film archivist and a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of Udine. He collaborated with various film archives as film preservationist: EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), Ciné-Archives (Paris) and the Cineteca Nazionale (Rome). Moreover, he has worked as a project coordinator with film festivals such as the Venice International Film Festival and currently collaborates with the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.

Serena Bellotti

Serena Bellotti is a fellow researcher and lecturer at the University of Udine. Her research focuses on film preservation and restoration, archival practices, and the design and implementation of digital environments for critical film editions. She works on film reconstruction and restoration projects carried out by the University of Udine in collaboration with national and international archives and institutions.

Andrea Mariani

Andrea Mariani is an Associate Professor at the University of Udine (Italy), where he teaches Media Theory (BA), Film Philology (MA), and Exhibition Design (MA). He is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of the PRIN2022 project FilmBaseMatters: A Material Approach to the History of Small-Gauge Film in Italy and a scientific collaborator of the Amateur Movie Database (https://www.amateurcinema.org). He is also the editor of the book series Plexus (Meltemi) and ExSeries (Mimesis/DSL Press+). 

Antonina Dattolo

Antonina Dattolo is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Udine, where she directs the SASWEB (Semantic Adaptive Social Web) research laboratory within the Department of Mathematics, Computer, Science and Physics. She also serves as the director of the Interdepartmental Center for Educational Research at the same university. She teaches Foundations of Computer Science (BA), Semantic Web (BA/MA), and Web Technologies. Her research interests include information visualization, knowledge representation, innovative teaching, semantic and inclusive web, mobile applications.

Rossella Catanese

Rossella Catanese is a Research Associate at the University of Tuscia. She works on avant-garde, film archives, restoration, analog and digital media. She has published acune binarie. Il restauro dei film e le tecnologie digitali (2013) and Bill Morrison, ‘Decasia: the State of Decay’: l’alchimia della rovina (2023), and edited Futurist Cinema. Studies in Italian Avant-garde Film (2018). In 2023 she won the “Duchamp Research Grant” from the Staatliches Museum Schwerin.  

Federico Meschini

Federico Meschini is Professor of Digital Humanities, Digital Publishing and Digital Storytelling at the University of Tuscia. His research interests focus on books and electronic editions, digital libraries, knowledge representation and forms of storytelling through new media. He has published Reti, memoria e narrazione. Archivi e biblioteche digitali tra ricostruzione e racconto (2018), and Oltre il libro. Forme di testualità e Digital Humanities (2020). 

Chiara Petrucci

Chiara Petrucci was a long-time collaborator of Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, before completing her doctorate at Florence University in 2023 with a thesis in Digital Humanities about home movies and their digital valorization. She’s currently a post-doctoral researcher at Università della Tuscia. Her fields of research stand on the dialogue between the non-theatrical audiovisual heritage, especially amateur cinema, and digital archives and curatorship.

Valentina Valente

Valentina Valente, Ph.D. in History and Criticism of Musical and Performing Arts from the University of Padua, is a postdoc researcher at the University of Tuscia. She teaches Film and Media Education (Sapienza University of Rome), History of Photography and Cinema (San Raffaele Telematic University and Central Institute for the Pathology of Archives and Books), and Photography Workshop (RomaTre University). Previously, she has taught Media Education (University of Cagliari), History of Film Theories, Film Archive Management, Film Archives and Fiaf Guidelines, and Digital Photographic Restoration (Sapienza University of Rome).