Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico

A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.

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.

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.

A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, writer and poet Nico Naldini.

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

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.

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.

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 memory. Outdated technology transforms the events of twenty years ago into an archaeological object.

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 weakest, children and women. Through their testimonies we can also give voice to those who do not know, who do not want or can not remember.

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 (Nazareth, Deir Hanna, and Sakhnin) in celebration of the 5th Land Day Anniversary on March 1981 which has recently been restored and digitised.

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.

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 spent more than half of his life in prison

"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 affects the quiet of our vision and taking your eyes off too early, you know, could be fatal.

A tale of poverty in Salento during the 60s and 70s.