With my colleague Estelí Puente Beccar of the Spanish and Portuguese Department, we are happy to facilitate the discussion with the director Elisa Stone of @noondayfilms . With Matthew Leahy, they dedicated years to produce their compelling documentary The Bridge Master’s Daughter. A must-see you can watch on Kanopy. Thanks to the Abya Yala Student Organization for the opportunity, and the Center for Latin American Studies at Ohio State for the support).
At the XV Symposium on the History of Social Conflict, Damiano Garofalo and I dialogued with the director Wilma Labate.
Arrivederci Saigon (“Goodbye Saigon”, 2018), a documentary which revisits the historical events of 1968 from a unique perspective. Le Stars is an Italian girl-only band of teenagers from Tuscany. In 1968, they receive an offer they can’t turn down, a tour in the Far East: Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore. They set off hoping for success but found themselves in the middle of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, they tell the story of their adventure amongst American soldiers, remote jungle bases and soul music.
© Erik Scaltriti/FRIT/OSU/scalriti.1@osu.edu
Screening of a selection of my works and dialog with the public.
“This is an atlas, a human atlas, made up of people who have left a distant place, in space and time. Autobiographical stories, made with tenderness, through small memories and impressions of youth. A small collection of individual human uniqueness, where in the different stories, everyone can find himself/herself.” (Monica Carrozzi)
Above all, this video-documentary is the result of a team effort which brought together different skills and different sensitivities in tackling two topical issues: identity and mobility.
Sentimental Atlas, Migrant Autobiographies is the result of a participatory workshop I coordinated within the project ON: Itinerant Workshop Of Music And Various Arts, in collaboration with the Province of Reggio Emilia, the Municipality of Reggio Emilia, SpaceLab (Onlus Papa Giovanni XXIII Association) and the Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italia (Reggio Emilia).
This video has also traveled and been presented in diverse spaces of the city and to festivals. The screenings have always been followed by discussions with people who have experienced migration and forced displacement over the years (often accompanied by the photographic exhibition by Monica Carrozzi “Ethnic collection of hens”).
