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Fossati’s lecture will explore current research and practices in audiovisual heritage, focusing on key topics such as film restoration, curation, research, and reuse. She will also discuss the growing shift towards a more inclusive and global approach to audiovisual heritage, encouraging a broader, more diverse perspective on what audiovisual heritage is and how we preserve and engage with films for both present and future audiences.
Giovanna Fossati is a Professor of Media Heritage, Technology, and Culture at Utrecht University. Before her appointment at Utrecht University, she served as Chief Curator (2009-2024) and Deputy Director of Collection & Knowledge Sharing (2023-2024) at Eye Filmmuseum. Additionally, she was a Professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amsterdam (2013-2024), teaching in the MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image program since its inception in 2003.
Fossati’s research focuses on film restoration, digitization, and the theory of film archival practice, with a recent emphasis on developing a more global and sustainable approach to film archiving. She recently led the research project The Sensory Moving Image Archive. Boosting Creative Reuse for Artistic Practice and Research and is currently involved in the project Narratives from the long tail. Transforming access to audiovisual archives.
Fossati is the author of From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition (2009 and 2018 – revised edition), co-author with Tom Gunning, Joshua Yumibe and Jonathon Rosen of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (2015), co-editor with Annie van den Oever of Exposing the Film Apparatus. The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory (2016), and co-editor of the volume The Colour Fantastic. Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema (2018). Her book From Grain to Pixel has also been translated into Spanish (in Argentina and Spain) and into Italian. Fossati was guest editor with Floris Paalman and Eef Masson for the special issue of The Moving Image journal focusing on “Activating the Archive” (2021). Her position statement For a global approach to audiovisual heritage: A plea for North/South exchange in research and practice was published by the online journal NECSUS (2021).