Archivio Aperto Professional is the festival section for audiovisual professionals, bringing together archives, directors, producers and archive producers in particular. Each year, it presents panels and case studies exploring the reuse, preservation and contemporary valorisation of archival materials.
The 19th edition will feature the panel Conservazione e accesso digitale alla Mediateca dell’Archivio Storico della Biennale di Venezia – ASAC, dedicated to the digitisation, metadata creation and post-production of the video and audio collections of the Historical Archives of the Venice Biennale (ASAC).
Kinè Società Cooperativa, ArchiveOn, L’Immagine Ritrovata and Memory Slash Vision Studios present the project for the digitization, metadata creation and post-production of the video and audio collections held by the Historical Archives of La Biennale di Venezia – ASAC.
The initiative forms part of a broader project aimed at developing and strengthening the institution’s activities through the establishment in Venice of a permanent national and international centre of excellence – the New Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts – funded by the National Complementary Investment Plan to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).
The collections constitute a complex and multifaceted heritage, comprising materials that differ in format, carrier and content. Managing these collections requires close coordination between the archive, laboratories and restoration workflows, together with the ability to track every stage of the process and ensure continuity of information throughout.
The panel will present the collaborative model and digital tools adopted to ensure a structured, shared and replicable workflow, developed following the award of the contract through a formal public procurement procedure.
Claudio Giapponesi
Claudio Giapponesi is a film producer with a degree in Communication Studies from the University of Bologna and co-founder of Kiné. Specialising in the use of archive material and the technical processing of video and analogue film, he has produced over 15 films that have been screened at major international festivals. He has taken part in prestigious training programmes and is a member of the European Film Academy. He also teaches courses on archives and film production.
Lisa Parolo
Lisa Parolo holds a PhD in Art History and Audiovisual Studies at the Università degli Studi di Udine and has published essays and edited volumes on the preservation of audiovisual heritage. She is CEO and founder of ArchiveOn, a consultancy specialising in clearance, rights, licensing and preservation protocols for audiovisual productions and archives.
Silvia Spadotto
Silvia Spadotto has been working at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna since 2009, where over the years she has developed her expertise in film source comparison and offline editing – fields in which she has taught at FIAF’s Film Restoration Summer Schools in Italy and abroad. She is now responsible for the technical coordination of DI workflows, with a particular focus on image restoration.
