Founded in 1992, ARCIPELAGO - International Festival of Short Films and New Images is a project "in progress" with the aim of worldwide search and acknowledgement of the most original drives and of the most innovative film languages developing inside non-standard audiovisual formats - starting with short films and including products belonging to the new "digital domain" and to the Web's borderless immaterial landscapes. .

Special attention is paid to the European production, witnessing its quakes and registering its changes, inquiring on the creative and productive diversities, as well as drawing the most updated map of new trends and of independent, marginal and experimental activities.

ARCIPELAGO is organized by the not-for-profit body Associazione Culturale 3E-medi@ and takes place in Rome, each year in mid-June, hosted by the Intrastevere Multiscreen, right in the middle of the ancient heart of the city.