AZDORE presents LIVING ARCHIVES ∙ Memory as a Common Space

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You can find the complete event description in Italian here.

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Images, sounds, documents, and fragments circulate across time, passing between institutions, communities, and personal histories. Through acts of gathering, re-reading, and reassembling, they become sites where memory is continuously negotiated and transformed.

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Session 2. MEMORY AS A COMMON SPACE 25/07/26

Shared Traces

Drawing from thousands of audiovisual fragments spanning decades of Lebanese history, “Do You Love Me?” assembles a collective portrait from dispersed traces: home movies,television broadcasts, films, news footage, and personal recordings. Rather than presenting a singular historical narrative, the film reveals memory as something fragmented, unstable, and shared.

Screening: Do You Love Me? (Lana Daher, 2025, 75’)

The archive emerges not as a repository of facts but as a space of encounter, where private and public histories intersect and where meaning is produced through circulation, accumulation, and collective acts of remembrance. By bringing together images created by countless individuals across generations, the film proposes memory itself as a common space: something continuously shaped, contested, and reactivated through use.

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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 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!