Activities

SAFE invests in applied research actions with the aim of creating advanced knowledge, tools, and skills related to the critical aspects of heritage sustainability, shared between the worlds of research, education, and the conservation of moving images. 

The three metadesign workshops organized by SAFE were aimed at internal training for the project partners and were open to the entire academic and archival community. Structured as roundtables, these workshops featured international experts from major European and North American archives and research centers, who shared practices and discussed current issues in the sustainability of conservation infrastructures, digital preservation, and stewardship strategies for film heritage. These contributions now form a key body of work for an initial introduction and framework of the main themes of the project. 
 The presentations and interventions are available in open access 

Monitoring and Preservation Metrics

Workshop
Microclimate Monitoring and Vinegar Syndrome Inspection in Cineteca Nazionale Film Archive Valentina Rossetto – Cineteca Nazionale Lisa Vergelli – Università La Sapienza

Film Vaults and Sustainability – Part I

Workshop

The Cineteca del Friuli Archive Experience

Alessandro De Zan – Archivio Cinema Friuli Venezia Giulia

Useful Tips for Improvement or Planning Depository Climate Pavel Jelen – Národní filmový archiv, Praga

Film Vaults and Sustainability – Part II

Workshop

Energy-saving Audiovisual Archiving: Current Developments and Possibilities

Nadja Wallaszkovits – State Academy of Art and Design, Stoccarda

Design of a Sustainable Archive for the Preservation of a Nitrate Film Collection Nadja Wallaszkovits – State Academy of Art and Design, Stoccarda

Digital Format

Workshop

IMF, Digital Facormats for Film Heritage

Walter Arrighetti – IMF User Group

The FFV1 Video Codec in Practice: Oppurtunities and Challenges Reto Kromer – AV Preservation by reto.ch, Berna
FFV1 at the Austrian Film Museum: Notes on the Implementation of a Sustainable Archiving Strategy Claudio Santancini – Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna

Network and data curation

Workshop

Large Scale Outsourced Film Digitisation. A Case Study, Focusing on Workflows and Specifications

Brecht Declercq – RSI – Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Lugano

Diazinteregio: a Joint Venture for Indexing and Promoting Territorial Film Memory Collections

Stéphanie Ange – Diazinteregio

Dissemination

Workshop

Memoryscapes: Italian Private Cinema Online. Strategies for Disseminating Amateur Film Archives

Paolo Simoni – Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Bologna

40 Years of Amateur Footage Sales – the Case of Cinémathèque de Bretagne Lucie Jullien – Cinémathèque de Bretagne – Gwarez filmoù, Brest
DE-BIAS – Detecting and Cur(at)ing Harmful Language in Cultural Heritage Collections Julia Welter – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt

Protection

Workshop
Sustainability as a Guiding Principle in Film Heritage Policy: Hints from Infrastructural Media Studies and Beyond Luca Antoniazzi – University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo
Environmental Sustainability of Audiovisual Archives: Overview and Case Study Keith L. Pendergrass – Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School

Two key eventsare planned for discussing the main points of the project and presenting some progress of the research, with the involvement of scholars, archivists, and stakeholders: 

  • The Mid-term Conference “Moving Forward, Looking Back“: Digital Transformation and Sustainable Archival Practices in Film Heritage held from February 27 to 28, 2025, at the University of Tuscia.
    Read the Call for Papers.

     

  • La final conference