Mirco Santi

A symphony of home movies filmed on the 9.5mm format of the Pathé-Baby.

Ferrania is a place, a factory, a brand known all over the world which, for decades, made the history of the still and moving image in Italy. but Ferrania, today, is a wasteland where numerous former workers of the facility live, in search of a new direction.

From the Lido to Venice via the Canal Grande: reflections on the lagoon, architecture, facades of churches and secular buildings, under the warm sunset of a winter afternoon. Cinema as accelerated painting. By train until the exploration of the tiny daily life, under an incandescent light. The journey stops between the trees of Bois d'Arcy.

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.

The Via Emilia changes and becomes an open-air museum: hidden installations - although architecturally majestic - invite us to shift our perspective, to rethink the journeys that we thought we knew by heart.