Regional archive of amateur and family films

Lombardia

Cinescatti

Since 2010, there has been an Archive in Lombardy that collects and digitizes small-format films. Its name is Cinescatti and it is located in Bergamo. It moves from place to place to recover the small and precious film stories that each of us keeps at home, making them collective memory.


About us

Cinescatti is Lab 80 film's Archive dedicated to preserving and promoting amateur and family films made in Lombardy. Through collection, sharing and reuse, Cinescatti brings forgotten images and testimonies back to light, making them accessible again to families and communities.

Thanks to various sharing projects, the films become collective historical heritage: able to tell the story of society through its micro-stories, through different and unprecedented points of view.

Year of birth 2010
Oldest and most recent film 1925 - 1995

The project

Born in 2010 from a Lab 80 film project, with the aim of collecting unpublished film memories in the Bergamo area, it has extended its activity to all of Lombardy, reaching today the preservation of thousands of films made by ordinary people between 1925 (the date of the oldest preserved) and 1995.

The headquarters

All films delivered to Cinescatti are stored in specially designed rooms with controlled humidity and temperature at Daste, Lab 80 film's headquarters since 2022, a redeveloped former power plant and new cultural hub of the city.

Territorial collections

Through territorial collections, Cinescatti recovers films in 9.5mm, 8mm, Super8, 16mm formats and magnetic tapes; these films are cataloged, restored and digitized in the Archive's laboratories with professional equipment and scanners: an activity that allows people, whether individuals or communities, to watch their films again after decades.

Digitization is not the only focus of the Archive, the same commitment is dedicated to collecting the stories, whether family or individual, contained in the films. This work is possible thanks to the direct involvement of donor families who, through interviews, make accessible the experiences and events that their films tell.

Chiusa
Racconto di due città
2022/2023 Brescia e provincia
Chiusa
Altri occhi
2021 Bergamo e provincia
Chiusa
La memoria dei fiori
2019 Valle Camonica
Chiusa
Luci d'Inverno
2018 Lecco e provincia
Chiusa
Cinescatti
2010 Bergamo e provincia

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Projects

SIAMO ARCHIVIO
Racconto di due città: Epiloghi
Racconto di due città
Lo Sguardo Illuminato
La Memoria Visibile
Re-framing home movies
La memoria dei fiori
Il cinefurgone
International Media Mixer
Macchine del Tempo
Flash Forward

Contact

Lab 80 film Soc. Coop. r. I.
via Daste e Spalenga, 15
24125 Bergamo
info@cinescatti.it
Tel. +39 035 342239

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