Visions d'Italie

The Visions d’Italie study day brings together archivists, researchers and filmmakers to explore the links between film and landscape heritage. On this occasion, the public can discover a selection of cinematographic images shot in Italy between 1896 and 1930, particularly significant for their relationship with landscape.

These mutually endangered forms of visual and territorial memory require constant care and specific preservation mechanisms, which should be seen as engines of creation and research, generating fruitful synergies between conservation practices, artistic approaches and scientific approaches.

As part of the “Italian landscapes, one hundred years on (1896-1930)” research-creation project of the École Universitaire de Recherche ArTec, this meeting aims to open up new trans-disciplinary horizons for filmmakers, researchers and local players.

The symposium was organized at Villa Medici by the Dottorato in Beni Culturali, Formazione e Territorio of the Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, in partnership with the ArTeC University Research School (project “Italian Landscapes, cento anni dopo, 1986-1930”) and the ESTCA research laboratory at the University of Paris 8, with the collaboration of the AIRSC – Italian Association for Research on the History of Cinema; the Cinémathèque française; the Cinémathèque de Toulouse; the CSC – Cineteca Nazionale; the Heritage Department of the CNC; the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation; the Museo Nazionale del Cinema and the Università degli Studi di Torino.