RESEARCH
THE AGE OF COAL
Genre: Video / photographic installation
Direted by: Fabio Caramaschi and Silvia Caracciolo
Year: 2016
We started looking for a family history on the trail of Italian miners and we found them in the Belgian province of Hainaut in Wallonia.
In their eyes it seemed to us to see the looks of those young people who abandoned their land devastated by poverty and war, to seek a better future at the bottom of a black hole in a foreign country.
THE SOY ROAD
Genre: Documentary
Directed by: Riccardo Russo Year: 2009
Duration: 52 ‘ | Format: DV SP
Partner: DERHUMHALC, International Festival of Human Rights Cinema in Buenos Aires
Language: Italian / Spanish
Production: Esplorare la metropoli
The documentary describes the social and environmental effects of the uncontrolled progress of soy monoculture in the countries of the Southern region of Latin America, and does so through the precious testimonies of indigenous leaders, landless peasants, new inhabitants of urban suburbs, environmentalists and intellectuals.
PIAZZA TIBURTINO III
Genre: Documentary
Directed by: Riccardo Russo, Paolo Barberi
Year: 2009 Duration: 52 ‘| Format: DV SP
Partner: AGEMUS, Department of Sciences of Signs, Spaces and Cultures, Sapienza University of Rome
Language: Italian
Production: Esplorare la metropoli
From 1936 to the present day Tiburtino III has changed a lot but among the enormous volumes of cement that today outline its profile, it’s still possible to glimpse the continuity of a precious collective memory.
IPERURBS ROMA
Genre: Urban Film Festival
Year: 2005
Partners: CISR, Inter-University Rome Research Center, Sapienza University
Language: Italian
Production: Esplorare la metropoli
The festival is the result of a research carried out by a interdisciplinary group of sociologists, anthropologists, demographers, film historians, with the aim to create a review of documentaries on the occasion of the “Sapienza University” of Rome VII centenary.