Dissemination

From January 28 to 30, 2026, the University of Udine hosted the final conference of the PRIN PNNR SAFE project – The Sustainability of Italian Film Heritage, entitled “Keep it Safe! Building Strategies for a Sustainable Film Heritage.” The event represented the culmination of a research project dedicated to the…

The SAFE research group participated in the conference "The Past is the Future" (November 13-16, Ortigia), organized by the Cineteca dello Stretto, with a panel entitled "Where Are We in the Timeline? Initial Results and Reflections on the SAFE Project - The Sustainability of Italian Film Heritage (2022-2025)." Valentina Valente…

  On October 29, 2025, Simone Venturini and Rossella Catanese participated in the FIAT/IFTA World Conference on Television Archives at Cinecittà with a presentation entitled "SAFE. The Sustainability of Italian Film hEritage: Archival Infrastructures, Digital Preservation, and Stewardship Strategies." The results were also presented in a poster presented by Serena…

Rossella Catanese and Valentina Valente of the University of Tuscia participated in the International Conference ""Original Copies: Digital Tools for Preservation in Cinema and the Other Arts"", organized by the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin in partnership with the ""La Venaria Reale"" Conservation and Restoration Center. The…

Simone Venturini and Rossella Catanese took part in the discussion panel “Cultures of Preservation and Valorization of Cinema” during the Study Day entitled “The State and Future of Research. PRIN 2022 and Emerging Perspectives: The Contribution of the PEMM-01/B Area”, organized as part of the annual Assembly of the Consulta…

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,…