by Mariana Eugenia Califano
What do the names of streets tell us? What story do they tell, and why do they tell it? Can toxic narratives resulting from revisionism be defused? Contrade Ribelli is a short film, made almost exclusively with archival images from Resistenze in Cirenaica in collaboration with Solipsia, that tells the path of the permanent cultural site in Bologna, the genesis of the odonomastic guerrilla warfare, and the practices of resistance between performing arts and historical memory. In these images, street attitude, punk spirit, and historical rigor find an unlikely but fruitful point of conjunction.
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Contrade ribelli, Eugenia Califano