INTO THE MOVEMENT
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Film credits
- Original title: Dentro il collettivo / English title: Into the movement
- Completion Date: 2019-20
- Shooting format: HDSLR – 16/9 (Color)
- Duration: 90 min
- Screening format DCP or mov file 422hq or mp4
- Production and direction: Lorenzo Melegari
- Editing: Lorenzo Melegari, Erika Mordazzi (assitant)
- Photography: Lorenzo Melegari
- Additional cameras: Matteo Macaluso, Steve Bertoldi
- Color correction: Gabriele Cipolla
- Sound design: Matteo Di Simone
- Music: Assalti Frontali, 99 Posse, SignA, Beeside, Atarassia Grop.
Synopsis
The story is about Art Lab, a social centre in Parma. A group of students occupy a building belonging to the University and abandoned for 20 years. Protected by those walls, changing the world together seems possible again.
A generation of young people feels under attack by the financial crisis and tries to react. In 7 years of occupation, these young people set up many projects: an italian school for foreigners, a free bike repair shop, an anti-racist football team, several cultural events. But believing in certain values and pursuing them to the end involves personal risks too: they violently clash with institutions, private companies, politicians, the police.
Art Lab is a project of radical change of society along the fine line between legality and justice. Can youngsters still change the world?
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
BEST ITALIAN DOCUMENTARY
Retro Avant Garde Film Festival Venezia 2019 (Venezia)
AUDIENCE AWARD
Torino Underground Cinefest 2020 (Torino)
MEDIA LIBRARY
Visions du Reel (Nyon – Svizzera) Media Library 2020
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Whakapapa Film Festival 2019 (Irsina-MT)
XV Festival Transterritorial de Cine underground 2019 (Argentina)
Balkan can kino 2020 (Atene-Grecia)
Puglia International Film Festival 2020
Movieactivism (Croazia) 2020
Festival Film Dokumenter (Indonesia) 2020
Liberation Docfest Bangladesh (Bangladesh) 2021
Cinetekton (Messico) 2021
Director’s statement
The basic idea was to try something never dared before, that is to say to narrate “from the inside” an occupied social center. The social center is a physical space made up of people who build their own “idea of the world” at 360 degrees and try to realize it concretely through anti-system actions, often
illegal acts.
These communities are in general very closed so it was a very slow and complicated process to get the trust and the permission to shoot anything. The spectators have a unique opportunity to see what they would not otherwise have seen. But above all they have the opportunity to see the world from an alternative point of view.
Into the movement – Trailer
