The Recreated Space. Digital Restoration and Video Medium

This is a description of the digital restorations promoted by Centro Teatro Ateneo, the university research centre about performing arts in the Sapienza University of Rome, acquiring materials by video formats. During our PhD course, we restored a set of different materials, an anthology of theatrical experiences with different formal and conceptual settings. This work can show the performer’s reviviscence. The unique gestures live again: the hic et nunc of the theatre stage, of the installation, of the rite. So restorations go along again through an epistemology of the action by thinking about space and its power in the layout of any audiovisual work, in its formal, symbolic, and meaningful features.