How We Remember: Colonialism & Slavery in Contemporary Nonfiction Films #2

94 Waterman Street,Providence RI 02906

22 February, 2023

Description

Second film screening: Negotiating Amnesia (Alessandra Ferrini, 2015, 29 minutes). Introduction by Leonora Masini, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Slavery and the Public Humanities at the CSSJ. The 30-minutes Q&A after the screening will host director Alessandra Ferrini. This is the second of two screenings of “How We Remember: Colonialism and Slavery in Contemporary Nonfiction Films.” Through interviews, archival images, monuments and the analysis of high-school textbooks employed in Italy since 1946, the film shifts through different historical and personal narratives, prompting a reflection on the legacy of the fascist, imperial drive in post-regime Italy. Negotiating Amnesia was supported by and presented at the 56th edition of the Festival dei Popoli, International Documentary Film Festival (Nov-Dec 2015, Florence) and as a collateral exhibition that took place at P.A.C. Le Murate (Florence) [now Murate Art District]. The event is free and open to Brown community members. First film screening