The research unit in Venice co-ordinates the design of models for the creative and interactive use of research sources and data, intended for the widest possible audience, mainly on the web but also, in a more design-oriented way, in exhibition spaces. Through the design of interaction and the design of some telematic and digital devices, the intention is to create a public and widespread space for exploration and research, implementable by the citizen, which connects the analysis of the emerging landscape in Italian silent films to the territorial characteristics of contemporary Italy.
Marco Bertozzi

Biography
Marco Bertozzi is Professor of Documentary and Experimental Cinema at the IUAV University of Venice, where he is a member of the PhD programme in Architecture, City and Design. He has taught in several universities and film schools, in Italy and abroad, and is part of the group of authors who contributed to the rebirth of Italian documentary filmmaking, combining authorial activity with a strong historical-theoretical interest and cultural promotion. Among his books: Storia del documentario italiano (2008) and L’Italia di Fellini. Images, landscapes, forms of life (2021). Last film: Cinema grattacielo (2017). For RAI Storia he conducted Corto reale, a programme on authors and forms of the Italian documentary, on air from 2013 to the present. In 2022 he deserved the Minister of Culture Prize for art criticism awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.
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Anna Masecchia

Biography
Anna Masecchia teaches History and theory of cinema and Audiovisual genres and forms at the University of Naples Federico II. Her current privileged fields of research are the forms of reuse of the photographic object in audiovisual writings of the authorial self and studies on the actor and stardom. At the Federico II, she conducts interdisciplinary research on the popular roots of Neapolitan multimedia entertainment and on the image of Naples between the fin de siècle and the advent of sound. She is a member of the “Divagrafie” research group, as part of the PRIN 2017 DAMA_Drawing a Map of Italian Actresses in Writing. Her publications include: Al cinema con Proust (Marsilio 2008) and Vittorio De Sica. Storia di un attore (Kaplan 2013); the collective volume L. Malavasi, A. Masecchia (eds.), Pianeta Varda, ETS, Pisa 2022.
Nicoletta Traversa

Biography
Nicoletta Traversa, graduated in Visual Arts at Iuav University of Venice, is co-founder and responsible for the enhancement strategies at RI-PRESE, venetian archive dedicated to the safeguarding, digitization and enhancement of audiovisual heritage. RI-PRESE is a Iuav University spin off.
Since 2016 she has been collaborating with Iuav laboratory courses of Visual Arts. She also deals with graphics, illustration, videomaking, audiovisual design. She has concentrated part of her research on the reuse of archival images, creating new stories from pre-existing images, pursuing the idea of a “vision ecology”. She is one of the founding members of Re-framing home movies association.