Prof. dr. Giovanna Fossati

Professor
Media and Performance Studies
Director of Research
Media and Performance Studies
g.fossati@uu.nl

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Fossati, G., & Olesen, C. G. (2025). The Moving Image Archive as Research Laboratory Ten Years On. In G. Fossati, & A. V. D. Oever (Eds.), Exposing The Film Apparatus (pp. 25-54). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI] [Portal]
Fossati, G., & van den Oever, A. (Eds.) (2025). Exposing the Film Apparatus: Global Laboratory Perspectives. Amsterdam University Press. [DOI] [Portal]

2023

Professional publications

Fossati, G. (2023). Bits and Pieces. A Visionary New Approach to Film Fragments, Archival Re-Use, and Film Archival Practice. Found Footage Magazine, (9).

2022

Scholarly publications

Fossati, G., & Saccone, K. (2022). Hands On. Film Heritage in Transition. In Encyclopedia of Film Techniques and Technologies

2021

Scholarly publications

Paalman, F., Fossati, G., & Masson, E. (2021). Introduction: Activating the Archive. The Moving Image, 21(1&2). [DOI]
Fossati, G. (2021). For a global approach to audiovisual heritage: A plea for North/South exchange in research and practice. NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, 10(2), 127-133. [DOI]
Fossati, G. (2021). Dai grani ai pixel: Il restauro del film nella transizione dall’analogico al digitale. Persiani Editore.
Fossati, G. (2021). Del grano al píxel: Cine y archivios en transición. (Cuadernos de la Filmoteca). Madrid: Filmoteca Española.
Paalman, F., Fossati, G., & Masson, E. (Eds.) (2021). Activating the Archive. The Moving Image, 21.

2020

Scholarly publications

Masson, E., Olesen, C. G., van Noord, N., & Fossati, G. (2020). Exploring Digitised Moving Image Collections: The SEMIA Project, Visual Analysis and the Turn to Abstraction. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 14(4). https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/4/000497/000497.html [Portal]
Fossati, G., & van den Oever, A. (2020). The 21st-Century Post-Cinematic Ecology of the Film Museum: Theorizing a Film Archival Practice in Transition - A Dialogue. In Post-Cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era (pp. 129-142). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI]

2019

Scholarly publications

Fossati, G., Masson, E. L., & Olesen, C. G. (2019). The Sensory Moving Image Archive Project. In Association of the Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference, Portland, United States, 28/03/19
Fossati, G. (2019). Del grano al píxel: Cine y archivios en transición. Buenos Aires: Imago Mundi.

Professional publications

Fossati, G. (2019). Collection Policy Eye Filmmuseum (2019).

2018

Scholarly publications

Masson, E. L., Fossati, G., & Olesen, C. G. (2018). Visual Analysis as a Means of Tactical Subversion in the Exploration of Digitized Moving Image Collections. In Media tactics and engagements: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27/06/18
Olesen, C. G., Masson, E. L., & Fossati, G. (2018). Feature Extraction in the Sensory Moving Image Archive (SEMIA) project. In Digital Humanities Benelux Conference 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 6/06/18
Fossati, G., & Gant, A. (2018). Restoring the Dutch and British Mutoscope and Biograph 68mm Collections (1897-1902). In Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference, Portland, United States, 28/11/18
Fossati, G. (2018). From Grain to Pixel (Third Revised Edition): The Archival Life of Film in Transition. (Framing Film). Amsterdam University Press.
Masson, E., & Fossati, G. (2018). Interdisciplinary, Specialization, Conceptualization: Archival Education Responding to Changing Professional Demands. Synoptique, 6(1), 26-30.
Verstraten, P., & Fossati, G. (2018). Between Nostalgia and Utopia: A Conversation on the Legibility of Film Archives. In Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines (pp. 199–211). Brill. [DOI]
Fossati, G., Jackson, V., Lameris, B., Rongen-Kaynakçi, E., Street, S., & Yumibe, J. (Eds.) (2018). The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema. Amsterdam University Press.

2017

Scholarly publications

Noordegraaf, J., Woodfin, L., Olesen, C. G., Masson, E. L., Fossati, G., & van Gorp, J. (2017). Mapping Desmet: Testing a New Cinema History Tool on Film Distribution in the Netherlands and Belgium, 1914-1918. In HoMER conference Circuits of Cinema: Histories of Movie & Media Distribution. , Toronto, Canada, 22/06/17
Olesen, C. G., & Fossati, G. (2017). The Sensory Moving Image Archive (SEMIA) Boosting Creative Reuse for Artistic Practice and Research. In NWO Smart Culture Conference "Exploring Integrated Arts & Culture Research", Amsterdam, Netherlands, 23/11/17

2016

Scholarly publications

Olesen, C. G., van Gorp, J., Masson, E. L., Noordegraaf, J., & Fossati, G. (2016). A New Cinema History Research Tool: The Case of Mapping Desmet. In Creativity & the City, 1600-2000, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27/10/16
Fossati, G., & van den Oever, A. (2016). Introduction: Exposing the Film Apparatus. In Exposing the Film Apparatus
Fossati, G., & van den Oever, A. (Eds.) (2016). Exposing the Film Apparatus: The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory. (Framing Film).
Olesen, C. G., Masson, E. L., van Gorp, J., Fossati, G., & Noordegraaf, J. J. (2016). Data-Driven Research for Film History: Exploring the Jean Desmet Collection. The Moving Image, 16(1), 82-105. [DOI] [Portal]

2015

Scholarly publications

Masson, E. L., Olesen, C. G., Noordegraaf, J., van Gorp, J., & Fossati, G. (2015). Reconstructing Colour Palettes in Early Dutch Film Distribution: The Case of Eye’s Jean Desmet Collection: The Case of EYE’s Jean Desmet Collection. In What is Cinema History? A HOMER Network Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 23/06/15
Gunning, T., Yumibe, J., Fossati, G., & Rosen, J. (2015). Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema. Amsterdam University Press.
Fossati, G. (2015). The Archival Life of Early Color Films: Restoration and Presentation. In Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema Amsterdam University Press. [DOI]

Other output

Olesen, C. G., van Gorp, J., Masson, E. L., van Wees, J., Sondervan, N., Fossati, G., & Noordegraaf, J. J. (2015). Mapping Desmet: a Tool for Visualizing Early Film Distribution and Screening. Data set/Database, University of Amsterdam. http://mappingdesmet.humanities.uva.nl

2014

Scholarly publications

Olesen, C. G., van Gorp, J., Fossati, G., & Noordegraaf, J. (2014). Emerging Cinema/Emerging Methods: Developing a Tool for Eye's Jean Desmet Collection. In Digital Humanities 2014, 7/07/14

2013

Professional publications

Fossati, G. (2013). Obsolescence and Film Restoration: The case of Colored Silent Films. Techné, 37, 103-106.
Fossati, G. (2013). The Restoration of Beyond the Rocks. In Work/s in Progress: Digital Film Restoration Within Archives

2012

Scholarly publications

Fossati, G. (2012). Multiple Originals: The (Digital) Restoration and Exhibition of Early Films. In A Companion to Early Cinema Wiley. [DOI]

Professional publications

Bloemheuvel, M., Fossati, G., & Guldemond, J. (Eds.) (2012). Found Footage: Cinema Exposed. Amsterdam University Press.
Fossati, G. (2012). Found Footage: Filmmaking, Film Archiving and New Participatory Platforms. In Found Footage: Cinema Exposed Amsterdam University Press.

2011

Professional publications

Fossati, G. (2011). On the Role of AMIA in Reshaping the Field of the Moving Image. Moving Image, 11(1), 155-158.

2009

Scholarly publications

Fossati, G. (2009). From Grain to Pixel: The Archival Life of Film in Transition. (Framing film). Amsterdam University Press.

1997

Scholarly publications

Fossati, G. (1997). Imágenes coloreadas hoy: Cómo vivir con colores simulados (y ser feliz). Archivos de la filmoteca revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, 1997(25-26), 103-110.