From 27 May to 1 June in Rome the festival dedicated to the creative reuse of images.

After the success of last year, the UnArchive Found Footage Fest returns for its third edition in Rome from 27 May to 1 June 2025. The Festival explores the cinematic horizons of creative image reuse, aiming to intercept new and diverse forms of expression, at the crossroads of cinema, video art, installations, and live performances.

The festival takes place across several venues, including Cinema Intrastevere, Alcazar Live, the Spanish Academy, the Botanical Garden, and more.

Festival Highlights: Performances & Screenings

The festival opens on Tuesday, May 27 at 10 PM at Zalib (Via della Penitenza 35) with Rivisitazione dello sciopero, a silent sound live performance by Luca Maria Baldini and Cosimo Terlizzi, reworking Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1970 footage of a Roman sanitation workers’ strike — originally intended for the unfinished project Notes for a Film on Garbage.

Also at Zalib, on Thursday, May 29 at 10 PM, At All Hours and None by Davide Minotti, Valeria Miracapillo, and actress Deniz Özdoğan pays tribute to exiled poet and activist Aslı Erdoğan, breaking the silence with voice and presence.

On Friday, May 30 at 10:30 PM, the program moves to Alcazar Live (Via Merry del Val 14) for Beats & Pieces: VJ and film scholar Rossella Catanese manipulates footage from Eye Filmmuseum’s “Bits & Pieces” collection, accompanied by an original modular synth score by Piero Fragola.

Saturday, May 31 at 9 PM, the festival’s special night features the international premiere of darker with music by David Lang and visuals by Bill Morrison, performed live by PMCE Ensemble at Auditorium Parco della Musica, in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome and Fondazione Musica per Roma.

The festival closes on Sunday, June 1 at 10:30 PM at Alcazar Live with Innesti, a live AV performance with visuals by Federica Foglia and music by Attila Faravelli, Enrico Malatesta, and Nicola Ratti, in collaboration with Triennale Milano.