The future of the past: rethinking archival film festivals

Archival cinema has become a protagonist in today’s culture. With the responsibility of memory, and the need for a look at the present, curators and professionals question the choices, innovation and sustainability of cultural initiatives that enhance it.

Festivals dedicated to archival and home movies are not just spaces of preservation, but are evolving as laboratories of experimentation, memory and reinterpretation, in dialogue between past and future. If they represent an unexpected – and necessary – backdrop of today, also of attraction to audiences, what models will define the archival festival of tomorrow? An opportunity to dialogue about how these events can grow, renew and expand their cultural impact.

Speakers
Sergio Fant – Archivio Aperto, Bologna

Margherita Malerba – Reframing home movies, Home Movie Days
Anna Petrus – Memorimage – Reus International Film Festival – Spain
Luca Ricciardi – UnArchive, Rome
Milagros Távara – MUTA: Festival Internacional de Apropiación Audiovisual, Lima – Peru

Moderator
Rachel Pronger – Curator, writer and founder Invisible Women

In collaboration with
AVI – Italian Video and Media Library Association