Tuesday 23 June 2026
9:30 – 16:00
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Via Giovanni Minzoni 14, 40121 Bologna, Italy.
Free admission. No reservation needed.
Workshop organised by ACE in collaboration with FIAF’s Technical Commission and Cineteca di Bologna.
Curated by Chicca Bergonzi, Anne Gant, Sophie Tsotridis, Arianna Turci.
9:30 Welcome by Gian Luca Farinelli
9:45 Introduction by Michal Bregant and Thomas Christensen: AI in European film archives.
10:00 – 13:00 Session 1: AI In Film Restoration
Introduction and moderation by Anne Gant (Eye Filmmuseum)
- Franz Hoeller (Diamant): The use of AI as a support for the Diamant algorithms Examples from the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique and the Filmarchiv Austria
- Tiago Borrões (Cineric Portugal): AI Tools for Film Restoration: Color Recovery and Subtitle Removal
- Nick Verlinden (Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique): Let’s talk about AI & ethics in film restoration
- Elena Tammaccaro, Céline Stéphanie Pozzi, Francesca Chelu Deiana (L’Immagine Ritrovata): Does AI wear glasses?
- Brice Amouroux (INA): “AI in audiovisual collection enhancement – Can we? Should we? Examples of some INA practical case studies.
- Sreya Chatterjee, Uli Ruedel, Franziska Heller (HTW Berlin): Digital Restoration and AI Interventions: Comparative Parameter Studies and the Critical Role of Visual Literacy
Open discussion
14:00 – 16:00 Session 2: AI for research purpose and audiovisual Management
Curated and moderated by Arianna Turci and Sophie Tsotridis (Cinémathèque royale de Belgique)
With this speaker selection we aimed at representing the diversity of AI experimentations when it comes to collection management: from Film Archives (Meemoo, CINEMATEK, TAI), to TV (RTVE), and how collaborating with researchers and GLAM institutions (EPFL, DFF/Europeana) is key to develop future tools.
- Sophie Tsotridis (Cinémathèque royale de Belgique): Introduction to the afternoon session – Putting AI to Work: Opportunities and Ethical Stakes for Film Related Collections. Presenting current AI use cases in collection management from a film archive and main ethical stakes
- Aexelle Vanmaele (Meemoo): Metadata creation and enrichment using artificial intelligence at Meemoo. (online)
- Virginia Bazan GIl (RTVE, FIAT/ITFA): Implementing AI in Spanish Television.
- Kristina Rose (DFF): DE-BIAS: Detecting and contextualizing biassed language in metadata
- Fabio Bedoya: TAI – Trust in Archive Toolkit for Collection Management. Presenting how this new resource can be used in Film archives and help introducing AI safely in Collection Management
- Sarah Kenderline (EPFL Lausanne): Research Meets the Archive: Computational Methods and Public Access for Film Archives. (online)
Open discussion