AZDORE presents: CINEMA AS A COLLECTIVE RESULT ∙ A Common Effort
About this Event
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You can find the complete event description in Italian here.
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Cinema that challenges its own modes of production and, while doing so, shows alternative ways of relating within the community, pointing to alternative futures, aspirations, and desires.
The programme builds on a central question: how can cinema function as a collective space today? In an era where access to images is increasingly individualized and mediated by platforms, the project aims to redefine viewing as a situated, relational, and participatory experience. Each session combines film presentations with discussions, collaborative work, and informal exchanges. This creates a link between what occurs on screen and what happens in the space around it.
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Session 3. CINEMA AS A COLLECTIVE RESULT 26/07/26
A Common Effort
In 1979, Joaquim Jordà filmed “Numax Presenta...”, a documentary about the occupation of a factory in Barcelona between 1977 and 1979. The film arose from the initiative of the Workers' Assembly, which decided to self-manage the factory in response to the attempted illegal closure by the owners, two Germans who years earlier had supported Nazism and had ended up taking refuge in Francoist Spain in the 1950s.
Screening: Numax Presenta… (Joaquim Jordà, 1979, 115’)
The members of the Workers' Assembly decided to finance the film production with their remaining resources. The film is a cinematic document of the workers' struggle after Franco's death and their aspirations for social transformation.
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About the curators: AZDORE COLLECTIVE
Gerard Voltà, Linda Venturini, Silvia Carobbio, Vivek Jain and Emma Marinoni come from different backgrounds but were brought together by a shared opportunity to program. They aim to make room for new and surprising voices, and want to support works that often stay on the margins.
In Romagna, azdore were much more than "housewives." They were the heart of the household: keepers of everyday knowledge, quiet directors of domestic life, and skilled hands rolling fresh pasta. They were also authoritative figures who held together generations, rhythms, and relationships.
The word conveys a sense of quiet strength, a form of leadership rooted in care, continuity, and creation. Choosing the name Azdore for the film collective meant aligning with this legacy. It represents a way of making cinema grounded in gesture, listening, and collaboration. Like the azdore, they work together, weaving stories, images, and perspectives to build a shared space where each voice adds to the whole.
The program we present reflects this same approach: a cinema that becomes community, that preserves and reimagines, that centres collective practices and ways of seeing capable of holding together intimacy and the world.
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CinemaO is a non-profit space: to access the screening room, you just need the annual membership card (€5), which you can get by filling out the membership form in advance or at the front desk on the day of the event. Thank you!
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