Alessandra Ferrini
2021Radio Ghetto Relay
Alessandra Ferrini
Radio Ghetto Free Voices is a pirate radio station that gives a voice to the dwellers of the Gran Ghetto of Rignano (Apulia, Italy), a shantytown that, until recently, housed thousands of West African migrants. Heavily exploited in agricultural work, they are able to share their experiences through the radio.
Radio Ghetto Relay
Negotiating Amnesia
Alessandra Ferrini
Negotiating Amnesia is an essay film based on research conducted at the Alinari Archive and the National Library in Florence. It focuses on the Ethiopian War of 1935-36 and the legacy of the fascist, imperial drive in Italy. Through interviews, archival images and the analysis of high-school textbooks employed in Italy since 1946, the film shifts through different historical and personal anecdotes, modes and technologies of representation.
Negotiating Amnesia