Associationism and progress: notes about the birth of film clubs. Home movies during the Fascism. [Sardinia Film Festival News, n. 12, 15 giugno 2012] (original) (raw)

It is a difficult and stimulating challenge which is waiting for cultural operators. Difficult, because they have to face the hard work of cleaning up the social fabric of the peninsula after decades of cultural degradation identified mostly in this aberrant, shameful phenomenon of lawlessness, corruption, ignorance, vulgarity and other things that Berlusconism has created, fuelled and continues to fuel (unfortunately, the phenomenon is not yet finished). Specifically, one of the biggest difficulties is to create the conditions for making "new look" of the Italian audience and television viewers, healing them from the worst of the "television world"the thirty years of Berlusconi. Stimulating, because each transition and transformation in the history of a country, can be a prevision of something better or unfortunately even of the worst. It's hard to imagine anything worse than living under the regime media's Anointed Lord and his minions in thirty years of this worsening and squalor. In our modest opinion, the prospects of cultural operators should follow two directions: one targeted to the development and actualizatiion of memory, which is the cultural heritage of the past. The other is to turn into offering to public, in an appropriate time and manner, those works and authors characterize the features of this but in our country have so far been marginalized or ignored by the market as the culture industry. As for the cinema and audiovisual is unnecessary to remember which artistic heritage of Italy retain it's archives (film library) wich expressive richness. Aesthetic and narrative has characterized our films mainly from the 40s to the 80s film and how this heritage continues to be ignored or relegated to the margins by the most scandalous TV listings.