Italian Documentary Forms and Cinematographic Archives

My contribution to this volume will propose some reflections on Italian found footage cinema in order to point out some of it's possible specificities. Following an historical introduction of sorts, I will examine the Italian production of such films from the last few years. These are highly experimental practices that straddle documentary, art and fiction cinema, revisited memories and images that abandon their original meanings in order to introduce other notions of the "real" and tell new stories about italian cinema and culture.