In Italy, 1991 is the year in which Davide was born and Communism died. It is the year in which an ideology vanished leaving a trail that will lead him in search of himself and who he really is.
Mirabilia Urbis is the imaginary journey back through the photographs, notes, letters, memories, thoughts and articles written by Antonio Cederna (1921-1996) on the disharmonious urban development of the city of Rome.
When Viola tries to restore a clay child with her father, a gift from a young Pasolini, she finds herself repairing an old wound. A small crack gives voice to a submerged dialogue.
The main (super)hero of Beatrice Baldacci’s documentary is a person depicted as the sum of her memories. The story of the director and her family is told in the first person, with home VHS recordings that show both Beatrice’s mother and Beatrice as a child taking on the role of an agent of...
Battlefield is a tribute to all second-wave feminist movements, an imaginary journey between different representations of femininity, in a process of subjective re-appropriation of the archive.
Mario, a lonely and nostalgic man, receives a wrong call in which he is mistaken for a child, so he finds himself listening to a story by Gianni Rodari. This episode will trigger a series of reflections on his past, fantasy and friendship
Yom Al Ard is a portrait about the fragmentation of the land, the experience, and the people of Palestine, showcasing the systematic efforts to disperse, fragment, and destroy the audiovisual memory and collective identity of Palestinians. It is composed of rare footage shot in the Galilee...
"Io ho fissato il fuoco per sempre" is an investigation into the act of looking and being looked at, a history of the (not) archived gaze. The gaze of the filmed subject, that of the camera, and that of the spectator trigger a participatory obsession, made of eyes in action. Someone threatens or...
Taking us on a deep dive into the Audio-visual Archive of the Labour and Democratic Movement in Italy, the director transforms images related to the ‘Southern Question’ – news reports and films from the 1960s that deal with the subordinate state of Southern Italy comparative to the North.
For doctors “MARASMA” was a diagnosis: a state of deep organic deterioration, total loss of strength. In mental hospitals, people did not die of mental illness, but of marasmus. This is what the medical records say, which today reveal the most difficult stories: those of the last among the...
Ettore Scola, in 1973, made the film Trevico-Torino, the story of a boy from the south who emigrated to Turin in search of work. Ten years later, Scola returns to the city to shoot Wish I Fly, in which the little protagonist embodies the hope of a better future. That child, forty years later, has...
