Back Hill – tales from a parish house 

London 1984, the first victim of the AIDS epidemic was a young Italian convict, one of Father Carmelo’s “ragazzi” – a community of youngsters who sought rescue in the parish house of the church of St Peter’s on Back Hill. Through a long forgotten archive of photographs, the histories and presence of the ragazzi within the domestic space is reactivated in a fragmented narrative, which mirrors the structure of the parish house itself – embodying the tales of Carmelo, protagonist and sole beholder of this memory. Developed as a portrait of the Italian community of St. Peter’s in London, it sits between the documentary form and the essay film.

Beursschouwburg (Brussels), 2014
Cinema OFFoff (Ghent), 2015
Villa Romana (Firenze), 2015
Teatro Massimo (Cagliari), 2015