SPECIAL GUESTS
Lorena Bordigoni
studied Art History from Universidad de Buenos Aires and holds a MA in Management and Preservation of Audiovisual collections from INA (French National Audiovisual Institute). She has worked as a digital restorer of motion picture film and collaborated in many different projects with a focus on preservation of latin american film culture. She has taught at Elias Querejeta Zineskola and also contributed to several publications.
Thomas Christensen
is Curator at the Danish Film Institute, a role he has held since 1998. He has an M.A. in film studies from the University of Copenhagen. He has been involved in a number of restorations both nationally and internationally and co-curates the Copenhagen Silent Film Festival. He served on the FIAF Technical Commission (2003–2015) and has since 2010 been on the Executive Committee of the Association of European Cinematheques (ACE). He has served as an advisor to numerous European film archives, including the Polish Film Institute (FINA), BFI and the Cinematheque Royale. He has recently been involved with a major digitization project, making all 450 surviving Danish silent films freely available on the website www.stumfilm.dk.
Nino Dzandzava
is a researcher specialising in film and early photography as well as an artist. Her scholarly interests focus on the history of Georgian cinema and photography, as well as Georgia's colonial visual cultural legacy. After acquiring both theoretical and practical knowledge in film conservation at the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in Rochester, New York, she has centred her research on primary source materials, including paper collections, film, video, printed media, and photographs. Nino has undertaken several film preservation and publication projects and is the author and editor of several books. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Potsdam, with a thesis focusing on the legacy of Mikheil Chiaureli. Her mixed-media works are rooted in research and often combine personal experiences with cultural and political contexts and issues of memory politics.
Maral Mohsenin
is the Director of Collection & Knowledge Sharing at Eye Filmmuseum. She holds a PhD in Film Studies from University of Lausanne and University of Amsterdam, with her thesis focused on the evolution of technologies in film archives. She worked as a film restorer and conserver at Cinémathèque Suisse and from 2022 to 2025, she was the Head of Programs at the Geneva International Film Festival. In addition, she has lectured at the University of Lausanne and contributed to various international conferences and journals. With a unique dual background in engineering and cinema, she combines technical expertise with a deep understanding of film preservation and presentation.