AMM – Archivio delle Memorie Migranti

About us

The Archive of Migrant Memories is both a real and virtual space for stories, self-narratives and dialogues between people wishing to share their experience of migration with others interested in learning about what they went through and their feelings and reflections. AMM is a “community of practice” composed of people pursuing common goals from a variety of perspectives. Their activities range from the collection of testimonies to the production of personal narratives and life histories, from participatory audio and video production to the development of teaching materials aimed at bringing the migrants’ real life experience into schools and making them available to anyone interested.

SCHOOLS

AMM offers workshops in schools at all levels throughout the country. Students and teachers interested in these activities can make specific requests for workshops that will be developed case by case together with AMM instructors, using the association’s materials: photographs, films, texts and drawings. AMM’s activities in schools do not take the form of traditional lessons, nor are they encounters in which participation is limited to listening to the migrants’ testimonies. They are interactive workshops where participants are encouraged to reflect on the relation between the I, the self, and the other, occasions in which the issues of antiracism, the fight against prejudice, respect for basic human rights can be worked through in practice in order to create shared spaces and to facilitate dialogue between different worlds.

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

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

DiMMi

FRMM

THE MIGRANT MEMORIES NETWORKS COLLECTION AT ICBSA (Istituto Centrale Beni Sonori e Audiovisivi, Ministero dei Beni Culturali, Roma – Central Institute for Sound and Audiovisual

FRMM

THE MUTTI PRIZE: migrant cinema

Why have a prize for foreign filmmakers in Italy? For foreign filmmakers or Italian filmmakers of migrant origin living in Italy it is

THE MUTTI PRIZE: migrant cinema

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

Welcome to Italy project

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

The reverse side of migration

CONTACT US

amm.segreteria@gmail.com 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀: c/o Circolo Gianni Bosio Casa della Memoria e della Storia Via San Francesco di Sales, 5 – 00165 Roma 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲: Via di Panìco, 18 (int. 8) – 00186 Roma 𝗙𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲: 97681790586

The Archive of Migrant Memories