THE PROJECT

As part of the workshop “Ethnographic Filmmaking, Training and Memory,” curated by AntropicA, fourteen young people, each with different backgrounds of studies and experiences, collaborated, giving rise to an interdisciplinary team. The group combined skills in film language with social research methodologies in the six-month production process of the short film “Āmarā. Notes for an ethnographic documentary” (2022). The documentary, filmed in the Tor Pignattara neighborhood, thus stems from the convinced recognition of the audiovisual as a valid cognitive tool employed in cultural encounters.

SYNOPSIS

The eviction of an association that for years symbolized cultural integration in Tor Pignattara becomes the catalyst for the social mobilizations that animate the neighborhood. While activists fill the squares reckoning with the effects of urban redevelopment, the Bengali community, deprived of a space, struggles to preserve sociability and sharing. The cultural life of the community unfolds in the determination to preserve the heritage of its identity, despite the transformations of cities in the era of globalization.