La Villetta, 1975 (16mm negative, scan 2K/Sound)

Location: Reggio Emilia, Italy Creator: Riccardo Napolitano The house is the name of a kindergarten in Reggio Emilia. The documentary, through the story of a group of parents, gathered in the school garden, recalls the story that led to the use of an old house as a kindergarten abandoned. The need to find a place for the four hundred children of the neighborhood, the occupation of the premises of the house by their parents, the work of arranging the rooms, carried out are then narrated by the citizens themselves, the popular mobilization to raise funds. This is how this school structure was born, in which parents have also rediscovered their role as educators, participating in the life of the school and in the activities of children, their games, their experiences expressive, to their collective life. 01. Black headlines on a white background 02. Written: “1975, in Reggio Emilia”. In the background, a group of people in front of a CM building; the MDP by hand approaches the PP of some women interviewed 03. PP, then zoom out, of the license plate on the school door. More interviews with parents in PP, alternating with Pan of the building from the outside 04. School interiors: Tot and Pan of the spaces; PP of children playing, drawing, gluing; Part of the children's hands 05. In CM, group of parents interviewed in PA; then zoom forward to the PP of the woman speaking on the microphone. Other PP 06. Tot of the school building from the outside and Pan of the empty classrooms from the inside. The children enter the line: Tot of the classroom as they sit at the desks. Children's Faces PP Pan 07. Pan in the bathrooms. Children wash their hands, PP and FI of children who pee, PPP still at the sink 08. Various inq inside the classroom: Pan on the walls, PP of the children playing, PP of the teacher, Tot from above, etc. Children who disguise and play. End: Sudden interruption