A film a year. Program 1: 1924-1939

A film a day: throughout 2023, Home Movies publishes daily a small-gauge format film stemming from family, amateur, or experimental archival collection, which is shot on that same day. Various events of this “short century” of amateur cinema, unfold into a full audio-visual calendar, followed by the changing of the seasons and attesting to the cyclical nature of time. For Archivio Aperto 2023, we propose A Film a Year, an anthology composed of Almanac’s fragments presented in five programs and shown in chronological order, from 1924 to 1989. One film to represent one year. The timeline as a stream to be submerged in. And so, once again, we will probe the relationship between amateur cinema and history. 

We will thus see the twentieth century in its making, recounting the “short century” or, in our case, the “small-gauge century.”

One film a year. Program 1: 1924-1939

1924. The first wedding filmed, D’Ambrogi family, 9.5mm, 2′.
1925. Vesuvius, Vassallo family, 9.5mm, 2′.
1926. The ship with Mussolini arrives in Genoa, Ludovico Maria Chierici, 9.5mm, 1′.
1927. Balloons at the Arena of Verona, Aleardo Felisi, 9.5mm. 2′.
1928. Marisa at 80 days, Guglielmo Baldassini, 9.5mm, 2′.
1929. Targa Florio, Ambrogio Orlando, 16mm, 2′.
1930. Cinema drunks in Puglia, Mario Cessi, 9.5mm, 5′.
1931. Pippo Barzizza, Barzizza family, 9.5mm, 4′.
1932. The carnival of Viareggio, Rodolfo Liscia, 9.5mm, 1′.
1933. Ascent to the crater of Etna, Marco Notarbartolo di Sciara, 16mm, 3′.
1934. Grape festival, Anonymous, 16mm, 4′.
1935. Cruise on the Augustus, Nicolò La Colla, 8mm, 2′.
1936. Nuvolari, Remo Rapalli, 8mm, 6′.
1937. The Ascari, Ruth Puccio Posse, 16mm, 4′.
1938. Hitler in Florence, Valaperti Family, 16mm, 4′.
1939. Mongioie, Chierici Brothers, 16mm, 3′.