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The Istituto Luce turned ninety in 2014, its decades-long history intertwined with that of Italy itself, through cinema and that unique treasure trove of images known to all as the Luce Archives. To celebrate its anniversary, some of the most acclaimed rising filmmakers in Italy were invited to make a small film, with each director selecting ten minutes of footage from the archives, out of the thousands of hours of footage to be found there. The result is an album full of different narratives.
Cipria is a ghost film: three Italian women who lived during fascism had told their lives hoping they could become a film, but the war had shattered the dream. We didn't even have an image of them: only the stories, still current, of their lives, which had been waiting for eighty years to be seen and heard. The challenge was to visualize their stories with footage shot between the 1920s and 1940s and new footage, to give each of them a face, a voice and a body.
Navigating freely among the images produced for the Italian Communist Party between the 1950s and the '80s by important Italian directors, and after encountering the gaze of Luciana Castellina, the legendary communist politician and a founder of the “Manifesto,” a woman who has never been orthodox and still today is a tireless organizer, Giovanni Piperno ponders the significance of the “party-giraffe” - as Togliatti once defined it – and, above all, what still remains of an experience that involved millions of people in an attempt to transform themselves and the world.
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