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“A Habit of not Talking about the Past” in Eritrean Italy: Documenting a Diaspora

Asmarina (2015), by Alan Maglio and Medhin Paolos, explores the multiplicity of Eritrean migratory experiences and tells the many stories of Milan’s Habesha community. The film’s title takes its name from a song celebrating the Eritrean capital Asmara, which personifies the nation as woman and mother.

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“A Habit of not Talking about the Past” in Eritrean Italy: Documenting a Diaspora - Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal

Asmarina (2015), by Alan Maglio and Medhin Paolos, explores the multiplicity of Eritrean migratory experiences and tells the many stories...

Asmarina

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Feqadu Amde-Mesqel - Asmarina {My Asmara} (Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz 1969-1974) [2004]

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ASMARINA: Voices & Images of a Postcolonial Heritage A documentary by Alan Maglio & Medhin Paolos

Mixed Company and Charitable Film Network is honored to host a presenation of Alan Maglio and Medhin Paolos' documentary film, "Asmarina." Set within the habesha community of Milan, "Asmarina" interrogates the postcolonial heritage of Italy and Eritrea that has been little scrutinized up to now. Starting from the collective memories of the community, the film gathers together the legacy of personal stories, exploring the different shades of identity, migration and the aspirations of the Eritrean/ Ethiopian people. The film explores the everyday life stories of those who have lived in the city for years, those who were born in Italy and refugees who have just arrived.

Admission is FREE Presented by Charitable Film Network and Mixed Company (www.themixedcompanyproject.tumblr.com) with support from Café Istanbul and the Japan Society of New Orleans.

For more information contact [email protected] or [email protected]. Follow Asmarina on Facebook at www.facebook.com/asmarinaproject, and visit the official film website at http://asmarinaproject.com/en.

#CFNnola #CharitableFilmNetwork #MixedCompany #AsmarinaProject #NewOrleans

**The movie is filmed in Italian and subtitled in English.

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Angela Davis with “Asmarina” filmmakers, Medhin Paolos and Alan Maglio. Asmarina will be coming to New Orleans in June!

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...The Italian colonialism has been one of the most aggressive with the use of heavy chemical weapons, but has never opened a discussion on the past. But when there is no question of delicate things, sooner or later burst, "...He came on something inside of me when I found out that some of the concentration camps opened in recent years by Isaias Afewerki to suppress opponents stand in the same places where they had arranged the old concentration camps of Italian colonialism," writes Alessandro Leogrande in his latest book The frontier . Starting from colonialism, through the struggle for independence and for the migratory experience of thousands of people, you get to tell the Eritrean regime and the fragmentation of society that produced, as often happens in totalitarian regimes.

Asmarina, the family album of the Eritreans in Italy

In family albums he sews the past: you fill in the gaps of memory, shooting interrupted speeches, fight amnesia and removals. Asmarina is a documentary that recovers the memory, mending together the stories of the Eritrean and Ethiopian communities, which lives and works around Porta Venezia, in Milan.

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Un mosaico composto da tante tessere, antiche e recenti, tutte attuali. Un caleidoscopio di immagini, tratte da album di famiglia, scatole dei ricordi, archivi

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#Asmarina, la questione eritrea sotto casa. Questa sera alle 23 con @valfurla http://t.co/0V2VAxZSUG pic.twitter.com/Ifz4cTtlqs

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