A film a year. Program 3: 1956-1967

A film a day: throughout 2023, Home Movies publishes daily a small-gauge format film stemming from family, amateur, or experimental archival collection, which is shot on that same day. Various events of this “short century” of amateur cinema, unfold into a full audio-visual calendar, followed by the changing of the seasons and attesting to the cyclical nature of time. For Archivio Aperto 2023, we propose A Film a Year, an anthology composed of Almanac’s fragments presented in five programs and shown in chronological order, from 1924 to 1989. One film to represent one year. The timeline as a stream to be submerged in. And so, once again, we will probe the relationship between amateur cinema and history. 

We will thus see the twentieth century in its making, recounting the “short century” or, in our case, the “small-gauge century.”

One film a year. Program 3: 1956-1967.
1956. Wedding in Palermo, Giuseppe Damiata, 9.5mm, 3′.
1957. The little tourist, Carlo Fuzzi, 8mm, 5′.
1958. Fiorentina – Bologna, Emilio Nicoletti, 8mm, 3′.
1959. An evening at Eden, Corrado Calanchi, 8mm, 5′.
1960. Let’s eat lasagna, Corrado Calanchi, 8mm, 2′.
1961. The eclipse, Prinetti Family, 16mm, 2′.
1962. First steps, Luciano Osti, 8mm, 2′.
1963. Vajont, Zoilo Da Vià, 8mm, 5′.
1964. I funerali di Togliatti, Sauro Ravaglia, 8mm, 7′.
1965. The cable car, Sante Rudatis, 8mm, 2′.
1966. United for peace, Carlo Pascucci, 8mm, 6′.
1967. The color of the sea and summer, Ranza Family, 8mm, 5′.