Alin in the ghost town

Stefano Piemontese

Alin in the ghost town

Stefano Piemontese^* (Producer)

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute for Research into Superdiversity

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Abstract

Stefano started filming Alin's life in 2014. At that time, Alin was a teenager living in precarious housing conditions on the outskirts of Madrid, and Stefano was a PhD candidate working on youth migration. Their experimental collaboration continued for a couple of years, involving Alin's friend, Lauren, and his older brother. Then Stefano's doctoral scholarship ended, and the prospect of producing a collaborative documentary movie went on standby. Over the years, however, Alin, Lauren and Stefano kept fantasising about working together on a documentary movie project, each with different motivations and positionalities. Unfortunately, when the opportunity presented itself, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out shortly before they could meet in Madrid. During the pandemic, Alin returned with his family to his mother's home village in Romania. So, towards the end of 2020, Stefano sent him a smartphone and invited him to record a video diary about his life in "the ghost town".

Original language	English
Media of output	Film
Size	10:02
Publication status	Published - 8 Feb 2023

Keywords

Roma migration
Youth transitions
Ethnographic movie
Collaborative methodology
Audiovisual methodology

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zd_-NvmFscLicence: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

H2020_IF_RETRY
Sigona, N. & Piemontese, S.
European Commission
29/08/19 → 11/09/22
Project: EU

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