The creative reuse of audiovisual archive materials is the manifesto of the international festival Unarchive Found Footage Fest. Rome campus students of the BA in Film and Animation and Milan campus students of the MA in Creative Media Production will take part in this edition. Their projects born from a didactic workshop will be presented at Cinema Intrastevere, in Rome, on May 7.
Below is information on the event.
NABA at the Unarchive Found Footage Fest: event infomation
Theatre 2, Cinema Intrastevere, vicolo Moroni 3, Rome
Sunday, May 7, from 10:30 AM
Free entrance is subject to availability.
The festival and the Found Footage workshop
The Unarchive Found Footage Fest is an international festival dedicated to the creative reuse of archival material. It will be held from May 3 to 8 under the art direction of Marco Bertozzi (film historian and director) and Alina Marazzi (director and NABA lecturer). During the months before the festival, both NABA campus developed a series of special projects in collaboration with AAMOD.
The didactic programme on Found Footage involved students of the Media Design and New Technologies area and those of the Visual Arts Department of the Milan and Rome campuses. In Rome, it was curated by Fabio Capalbo (Bachelor of Arts in Film and Animation Course Advisor Leader - Rome), with the participation of Lorenzo Tomio (musician, composer and sound designer) and Lorenza Pignatti (NABA lecturer). In the Milan campus, Alina Marazzi herself held the workshop within the Multimedia Design course.
The short films taking part in the festival are by Milan and Rome campus students Noemi Arfuso, Sofia Avaltroni, Cecilia Carmine, Sara Crescini, Elena Cucci, Maia Evangelisti, Valerio Antonio Federico, Elena Lander, Lucia Marinelli, Giulia Minella, Giulio Molin, Andrea Nassisi, Davide Piunti, Morena Santo, Daniele Senesi, Flavio Stano, Liutong Ye, Huang Zejin.
Coordinated by Daria Marcon (Media Laboratory Specialist – Rome), a group of students was part of the jury. They are Ricardo Calero, Emma Diana D’Attanasio, Eva Demattè, Giorgia Di Nanni, Chiara Evangelista, Beatrice Ferrari, Alessandro Fiorillo, Noemi Greco, Noemi Miranda, Maira Tersigni.