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Radio Ghetto Relay
by Alessandra Ferrini
2016, 15′
Presented at Lo schermo dell’arte 2021 in occasion of the exhibition Directing the Real: Artists’ Film and Video in the 2010s
The film is part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images – 6th edition
COURTESY: the artist
Radio Ghetto Free Voices is a radio that gives a voice to the dwellers of the Gran Ghetto of Rignano (Apulia, Italy), a shantytown that, until recently, housed thou- sands of West African migrants. Heavily exploited in agricultural work, they were able to share their experiences through the radio, discussing their inhumane living conditions and exposing their struggles. Building on their desire not to be photographed or filmed, Radio Ghetto Relay combines text, Google Earth and Street- view images to amplify their voices, highlighting the radio’s power to cross borders, while looking for their t races in the rural landscape of southern Italy.
Alessandra Ferrini is an artist-researcher, filmmaker, and educator. Her interest in education has led her to develop a pedagogic practice alongside her filmmaking, in which she explores the essay film form and the use of archives. Recent workshops include: Notes on Historical Amnesia pt.2 at Ma*Ga, Museo Arte Gallarate; Archive-as-Method: Colonial Voices and Gazes at Sa.L.E. Docks (Venice); Ghetto Relay at Art Transparent Foundation (Wroclaw, 2016); and Notes on Historical Amnesia pt.1 at Le Murate PAC (Florence). This project was developed in collaboration with the Festival dei Popoli and it was shown at the 16th Rome Quadriennale, within the exhibition Orestiade Italiana, at Ma*Ga Museo Arte Gallarate. Radio Ghetto Relay won the Open Call Europe by A-i-R Wro (Wroclaw) and was developed in the framework of Wroclaw European Capital of Culture 2016. The video was then premiered at Curzon Goldsmiths Cinema.