From Zero - Italy
Doc Lab Presentation: Live Stories
When: 24 November at 13:30
Place: Escape Club
With: Perry Bard (Man With Movie Camera Global Remake), Austin Lynch (Interview Project), Stefano Strocchi (From Zero – Italy), and Alexandre Brachet (Prison Valley)
Filmmakers, curators and other guests talk about how internet and new media influence documentary storytelling and exhibition. Moderator Hans Maarten van den Brink.
From Zero - Italy & Driftless
When: 25 November at 22:00
Place: Tuschinski 4
With: Stefano Strocchi, Danny Wilcox
Live Screening of From Zero - Italy by director Stefano Strocchi, and Driftless by Danny Wilcox.
Year of development 2009, ongoing
Online platform webcasting daily episodes from the mountainous Italian region of Abruzzo, which focuses on its recovery from the huge earthquake it suffered six months ago.
What happens in a disaster area after the cameras have departed? The mountainous Italian region of Abruzzo and its capital L'Aquila were struck by an earthquake on April 6, 2009, and the online platform From Zero — Italy is a record of daily life there today.
Sixty thousand locals were put up in tent camps, and one of these, Centicolella, was erected on a soccer field.
Through daily episodes, the viewer gets to know people living in the camp and the wider situation in the area. The owner of Fausto's Café describes how he was just getting beer out of the cellar when the first shock came in April. Because of the danger of building collapse, the authorities only allow locals into the town under Fire Department supervision.
The From Zero project aims to maintain attention for the lives of people after a disaster as well as to provide viewers with a behind-the-scenes perspective on the news by showing the situation six months after an entire town — its public and private services and its buildings — disappeared in a single day.
Tags : video, human interest, interactive, social issues, locative media, web documentary, internet, participatory
