ARCHIVE
The Archive contains self-narratives, interviews, research and theoretical reflections in the form of written texts, audio, video and images. You can consult the materials online or by writing to us for those that cannot be used on the website.
Self-representations
This section includes stories, self-narratives and diaries produced by migrants wishing to reflect on the nature and legacy of migration as an individual and collective
Interviews
The “interviews” section documents meetings, conversations, interviews, story circles or discussions held, developed or organized by AMM’s volunteers, researchers and members. It includes brief extracts
Research
The ‘research’ section is dedicated to research and critical literature addressing the work and activities of AMM and its development over time. It includes documents,
Films
You can take part in AMM’s activities by organizing screenings of our films by making applications for private or public showings, including the participation of the authors. AMM’s films provide an inside story of the experience of migration, taking advantage of the specific features of audio visual language and participatory methods.
WELCOME TO ITALY
A documentary by Aluk Amiri, Hamed Dera, Hevi Dilara, Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Dagmawi Yimer,...
Va’ pensiero. Storie ambulanti – Va’ pensiero. Walking stories
A film by Dagmawi Yimer, 2013 (55’). Va’ pensiero intermeshes the stories of two racist aggressions in...
Soltanto il mare – Nothing but the sea
A documentary by Dagmawi Yimer, Giulio Cederna and Fabrizio Barraco, 2011 (49’) Direction, cinematography, sound: Dagmawi Yimer,...
To whom it may concern
A documentary by Zakaria Mohamed Ali, 2013 (16′) After “Soltanto il mare” (Nothing but the...
PROJECTS
ITHACA horizon
The project The Horizon 2020 – ITHACA. Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region project aims
DiMMi
“Diari Multimediali Migranti” (Multimedial Diaries by Migrants) is an Italian life story prize designed to collect and give publicity to stories by people from foreign
FRMM – Migrant Memories Network Collection
The Migrant Memories Network Collection (FRMM) hosted at the Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori e Audiovisivi (Central Institute for Sound and Audiovisual Heritage) in Rome contains
The Gianandrea Mutti Prize
grant competition 2021 for migrant filmmakers – “Why support cinema by migrant filmmakers? Think of the “stereophonic” reading skills shown by their filmmaking. With their
Welcome to Italy project
A documentary by Aluk Amiri, Hamed Dera, Hevi Dilara, Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Dagmawi Yimer, 2012 (60′). Five shorts written, shot and directed by young
The reverse side of migration
The theoretical intuition that gave the title to the research is that the condition of immigrants is crossed by a series of reversals (lexical, semantic