Via mazzini 34, 10123 Torino
Torino
Italy
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
In the past years we specialized in conception and realization of transcultural projects meant to create occasion of encounter, acquaintance and exchange among indigenous and migrating inhabitants of a same territory. We join our goals through audiovisual instruments.
In particular association has realized outdoor free film festivals in high immigration districts in the town of Turin and in Piedmont Region.
Our initiatives are inspired by community cinema philosophy: they are motion picture paths that conjugate artistic and cultural experience with social, relational and community dimension.
CinemaINStrada is the most significant project carried out annually by i313 Association. CinemaINStrada is a set of free outdoor projections of Italian and international films, chosen together with the largest communities (Romanian, Italian, Moroccan, Chinese, Peruvian, etc.) among the foreign residents in the areas where the films are shown.
The festival takes place in Turin in different squares of areas with high migratory density and is one of the few cultural events that actively involves all these communities which generally prove hard to engage. Films are shown in the original language, with Italian subtitles.
The festival is preceded by a 5 months of research in the field, during which members of the association walk around the chosen areas with a camcorder, asking people on the streets which film they would like to watch.
It is an interesting experience because our interviews spontaneously widen into other themes and what comes over is a choral expression of these communities’ fluid vision and understanding of the world, each community gaining an appreciation of others.
The interviews recorded in this phase are edited and shown during the festival, before the film.
These short 5-minutes videos amplify the sensation of belonging to the community and the expectations of the festival. The impact on the local community is strong also thanks to the fact that people can recognize themselves and their neighbours on the screen.
The final result is a melting pot that joins “high” to “low”, north to south and east to west; a mixture of genders, cultures and languages. A cultural proposal in which the audience can really identify itself.
Other projects: realization of videodocumentaries in a transcultural field, realization of workshops and cultural events.