Miriam Sichel Zanlari with her husband moved from Parma to Taranto in 1965, he in accounting, she in the personnel office, they worked at what would later become the Ilva petrochemical plant. They rent an apartment in the working-class Tamburi neighborhood, inhabited mainly by the workers of the industrial plant. The husband films the chimneys from the balcony, the landscape is altered, the black rag is dirty with fine dust, Miriam recalls, having the clear impression that the air was already polluted then. After two years, they will return to live in Parma. Archivi Vivi is the collection of amateur films by the inhabitants of Parma and its province, from an idea by Home Movies – National Archive of Family Films, with the contribution of the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Municipality of Parma, the collaboration of 24FPS, Officina Audiovisual Arts, Order of Architects, Cai Parma. Thanks to a contribution from the Cariparma Foundation, Archivi Vivi tells its story makes it known to the public – in collaboration with Repubblica Parma – the findings and the stories collected.
