Dissemination

Publication and dissemination of the CFP for the SAFE final conference, held on 28, 29, 30 January 2026, at the University of Udine, entitled “Keep it Safe! Building Strategies for a Sustainable Film Heritage". Deadline for sending abstract and author's biography: October 10, 2025. Read the Call for Papers.

The video recordings from the mid-term conference “Moving Forward, Looking Back: Digital Transformation and Sustainable Archival Practices in Film Heritage” held at the University of Tuscia on February 27th and 28th are now available online in the section "Activities" in the SAFE website.

As part of a doctoral seminar of the doctoral school in the field of Visual, Performing and Fashion Arts, Serena Bellotti and Clément Lafite, members of the SAFE research group, discussed the topic of the sustainability of film heritage. Serena Bellotti presented the method and the first results of the…

Clément Lafite, member of the SAFE research group, was interviewed for an article of the film journal Les Cahiers du Cinéma (n. 819). “Dans quel environnement preserver le cinema?” (In which environment can we preserve moving images?) by Elodie Tamayo explores the current challenges faced by the community of film…

On February 27th and 28th, 2025, the international conference “Moving Forward, Looking Back: Digital Transformation and Sustainable Archival Practices in Film Heritage” was held at the University of Tuscia, organized as a midterm outcome of the PRIN 2022 PNRR project 'SAFE' - The SustainAbility of Italian Film hEritage. Archival Infrastructures,…

On February 27th and 28th, 2025, the University of Tuscia will host the conference "Moving Forward, Looking Back: Digital Transformation and Sustainable Archival Practices in Film Heritage, as part of the SAFE project – The SustainAbility of Italian Film Heritage. Archival Infrastructures, Digital Preservation, Stewardship Strategies PRIN PNRR 2022. This…

Clément Lafite, scientific member of the SAFE project, co-hosted and chaired a training workshop organized by FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) on the theme: Eco-friendly solutions for cleaning films? Current practices and future challenges, which is also investigated within the framework of the SAFE research. Two empirical field studies…

Clément Lafite, scientific member of the SAFE project, gave a talk during the international training course FRAME Basics co-organized by INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, Paris) and FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives) on topics related to the SAFE projet: An Eco-friendly Audiovisual Archive? The Challenges Ahead of Us. The…