Visions d'Italie

Film as landscape archive and visual memory

03.11.2025

Tontolini e l'asino, Cinès, 1911. Photograms preserved at the George Eastman Museum, Davide Turconi Collection.

Co-organizers
Céline Gailleurd
Elisa Uffreduzzi

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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.

Program

3:00 – 3:15 pm Opening

Presentation by Alessandro Gallicchio (Villa Medici), Céline Gailleurd (Université Paris 8), Luca Mazzei (Università di Roma Tor Vergata), Elisa Uffreduzzi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

3.15pm – 3.45pm Session 1

“Des Alpes au Tibre : le paysage italien à travers les collections de la Cinémathèque française”
Hervé Pichard (Cinémathèque française) in dialogue with Silvio Alovisio (Università di Torino)

15h45 – 16h15 Session 2

“Paysages sacrés : Vedute vaticane conservées au CNC”

16h15 – 16h45 Session 3

“Rome foudroyée sur le chemin du cinéma : le cas de San Paolo (Giuseppe De Liguoro & Rudolf Kanzler, Milano Film, 1910) et Tontolini e l’asino (Cines, 1911)”
Steve Della Casa (CSC – Cineteca Nazionale) and Maria Assunta Pimpinelli (CSC – Cineteca Nazionale) in dialogue with Céline Gailleurd (Université Paris 8)

16h45 – 17h15 General discussion

Moderated by Céline Gailleurd (Université Paris 8) and Elisa Uffreduzzi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

17h15 – 17h30 Break

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Session 4

“Brûler Rome, sauver le film. La restauration de Nerone (Ambrosio, 1909) par le Museo Nazionale del Cinema”
Gabriele Perrone (Museo Nazionale del Cinema) in dialogue with Olivier Bohler (Université Paris 8)

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Session 5

“La Vestale Vs. La Vestale : Le film français (Albert Capellani, Pathé, 1908) restaurée par la Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé en comparaison avec le film italien (Itala Film, 1910) restauré par La Cinémathèque de Toulouse en partenariat avec le Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino”
Stéphanie Salmon (Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé) and Francesca Bozzano (La Cinémathèque de Toulouse) in dialogue with Elisa Uffreduzzi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)