A project of Home Movies Foundation – National Home Movies Archive

The Almanacco Home Movies 100 The Home Movies 100 Almanac is the special project of the Home Movies Foundation – National Family Film Archive which consists of a daily programming of archive fragments shot on that same day, over the Short Century of cinema, in reduced format, each one being soundtracked on purpose for the occasion. An innovative project for telling the collective story, reconnecting it to today, through micro situations taken from family, amateur and artist films. In fact, amateur film cameras return an unpublished representation of Italy in the 1920s and 1930s, showing daily life during the war and the happy days of the Liberation, recounting the rebirth of Italy, the moments of the economic boom and accompany the life of Italians up to to the 80s, the fall of the Berlin wall and the transition to VHS.

L’Almanacco di Home Movies 100 is dedicated, in the anniversary of his birth, to Jonas Mekas, avant-garde masters, first singer of the home movies and precursor of this project with his pioneristic365 day project: for the entire 2007 year, the filmmaker published every day online a short movie shot in the same date. Inspired by the ideas of a filmed calendar, Home Movies 100 is concept lika an archive diary, based on the reasearch and the rialboration of the images shot betweent the twenties and the eighties of the Twentieth century. All the movies are published on the web platform www.homemovies100.it

Cured by Paolo Simoni in partnership with Michele Manzolini, Elena Pirazzoli
Production / Managing Vanessa Mangiavacca
Research and selection film archival Davide Bianchi, Ilaria Ferretti, Chiara Garbari, Vanessa Mangiavacca, Michele Manzolini, Mirco Santi, Paolo Simoni
Texts Elena Pirazzoli, Paolo Simoni
Postproduction Chiara Garbari, Paolo Lancellotti
Sonorization cured by Guglielmo Pagnozzi (1-31 gennaio)
Logo Irene Sgarro
Titles Kiné
Press Office Luciana Apicella