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Through a collaborative approach, SAFE wants to provide a space to share our research results. By doing so, we intend to create advanced knowledge and make available tools and skills related to sustainability of film heritage between the scholarship and the field of film heritage.

Rimediazione degli archivi di film: Digital Humanities e patrimonio audiovisivo
Rossella Catanese, Chiara Petrucci
University of Tuscia
Magazén, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2024

Digital Humanities e patrimonio filmico
Rossella Catanese, Valentina Valente
University of Tuscia
Quarant’anni e oltre. Storie e prospettive di un archivio audiovisivo.
Effigi Edizioni, 2025: 271-280.

Memorie amatoriali: l’alluvione del Polesine dalla pellicola ai social
Chiara Petrucci
University of Tuscia
in Cesaro, Laura, and Giuseppe Previtali (eds.), Immagini della fine. Visualizzare, testimoniare, ri-mediare la crisi ambientale. Milan: Meltemi, 2025: 39-54.

Sufficiency or Excess: Analog and Digital Strategies for Film Heritage Sustainability
Serena Bellotti
University of Udine
Rossella Catanese, Valentina Valente
University of Tuscia
Cinéma & Cie. Vol. 25, Num. 45, 2026 – forthcoming.

An Overdue Concern? An Account on Environmental Awareness in the Field of Film Heritage
Clément Lafite,
University of Udine
in Antoniazzi, Luca, Daniela Currò e Simone Venturini (a cura di), “Film Heritage and Environmental Sustainability. Cultural Policy, Stewardship, and Technologies”, The Moving Image, Vol. 25, Num. 2, 2026 – forthcoming.

SAFE – the Sustainability of Italian Film Heritage: Archival Infrastructures, Digital Preservation, Stewardship Strategies
Rossella Catanese
University of Tuscia
Simone Venturini
University of Udine
in Antoniazzi, Luca, Daniela Currò e Simone Venturini (a cura di), “Film Heritage and Environmental Sustainability. Cultural Policy, Stewardship, and Technologies”, The Moving Image, Vol. 25, Num. 2, 2026 – forthcoming.

Mapping Italy’s Non-Fiction Archival Landscape: an Overview of the “SAFE” Research Project
Rossella Catanese
University of Tuscia
Simone Venturini
University of Udine
Journal of Film Preservation, Num. 114, Aprile 2026 -forthcoming.

Ininfiammabile? Investigating the Existence of Cellulose Nitrate-Based 9.5mm Amateur Films.
Clément Lafite
University of Udine
Beppe Ferrari, Laura Falchi e Francesca Caterina Izzo, in Ljungbäck, Hugo, Luisa Trott e Patricia Ledesma Villon (a cura di) “Reassessing Small Gauge, Amateur, and Nontheatrical Film”, The Moving Image, Vol. 26, Num. 2, 2026 – forthcoming.

Sufficiency or Excess: Analog and Digital Strategies for Film Heritage Sustainability
Serena Bellotti
University of Udine
Rossella Catanese, Valentina Valente
University of Tuscia
Cinéma & Cie. Vol. 25, No. 45, 2026: 135-153.

Keep it Safe! The Sustainability of Italian Film Heritage,
Serena Bellotti, Clément Lafite, Simone Venturini
University of Udine
Rossella Catanese, Valentina Valente
University of Tuscia
(eds.)
Milan: Meltemi, 2026.

The following bibliography is based on criteria of relevance, specifically addressing issues that selectively respond to the main research questions and objectives: archival infrastructure, digital preservation, and stewardship strategies. 

Adelstein, P. Z., J. M. Reilly, D. W. Nishimura, C. J. Erbland, and J. L. Bigourdan. “Stability of Cellulose Ester Base Photographic Film: Part V—Recent Findings.” SMPTE Journal 104, no. 7 (July 1995): 439–47.

Gamma Group, ed. The Vinegar Syndrome: A Handbook : Prevention, Remedies and the Use of New Technologies. Bologna, 2000.

Nikolaidou, Elli, Harrison King, and David Coley. “Archive Film Stores in the Global South: Can They Combine Film Preservation with Sustainability?” Journal of Film Preservation, no. 104 (April 2021): 41–47.

Nishimura, Douglas W. “Understanding Preservation Metrics.” Rochester Institute of Technology: Image Permanent Institute, 2007.

Parks, Lisa, and Nicole Starosielski, eds. Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures. The Geopolitics of Information. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Venturini, Simone. “From the Vaults: Unboxing Analogue Film Storage:” Le Temps des Médias n° 39, no. 2 (November 24, 2022): 118–40.

Antoniazzi, Luca. “Digital Preservation and the Sustainability of Film Heritage.” Information, Communication & Society 24, no. 11 (August 18, 2021): 1658–73.

FIAF. “The Digital Statement: Recommendations for Digitization, Restoration, Digital Preservation and Access,” n.d. https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/E-Resources/Digital-Statement-menu.html.

Jarczyk, Agathe, Reto Kromer, and David Pfluger. Digital Archiving of Film and Video: Principle and Guidance. Bern: Memoriav, 2017.

Kromer, Reto. “Matroska and FFV1: One File Format for Film and Video Archiving?” Journal of Film Preservation, no. 96 (April 2017): 41–45. https://retokromer.ch/publications/JFP_96.html

Pendergrass, Keith L., Walker Sampson, Tim Walsh, and Laura Alagna. “Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation.” The American Archivist 82, no. 1 (March 2019): 165–206.

Jones, Jimi, and Marek Jancovic. The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025.

Cherchi Usai, Paolo. “‘I Can’t Breathe’. Extinction Rebellion to Film Preservation.” The Journal of Film Preservation, no. 103 (October 2020): 9–14.

Fossati, Giovanna. “For a Global Approach to Audiovisual Heritage: A Plea for North/South Exchange in Research and Practice,” NECSUS, Autumn 2021_#Futures (n.d.).3

Kääpä, Pietari, and Hunter Vaughan. “Environmental Media Management.” In The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies. Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks. London ; New York: Routledge, 2023.

Stoeltje, Rachael, South East Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association, National Archives (Singapore), and Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Association, eds. Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration: Proceedings of the 2016 Joint Technical Symposium. Bloomington, Indiana, USA: Indiana University Press, 2017.