A
year in Felix, a foster house in Rome, southeastern suburbs near Tor
Bella Monaca, to tell the stories of Valerio, Ishmael, Joseph, Saleem
and the other guests of the community. The photojournalist EmilianoMancuso has lived in Casa Felix with a group of teenage boys and
their stories complex and difficult, creating "Il diario diFelix" (The diary of Felix), a multimedia project - consisting
of documentary film, a blog and a photography project - in
collaboration with Parsec and the association Zona.
With
the intimate and spontaneous language of the diary has immortalized
the life of eight of these guys, sent here by the Juvenile Court,
foreigners arriving in Italy and accompanying unprotected, or Italian
separated from their parents, often for violence. Guys who have
suffered and who are facing life "almost without skin,"
Emiliano Mancuso tells us day by day their moments of joy, the most
sad and trivial.
He
writes in one of the blog post in which he tells his experience,
because he realizes that he needs words, because the images are not
enough to tell these stories invisible.
"My
way to stay in the foster home is to try to resume life in there,
they are there for that and that is my interest in their story I
relate to everyone, young or operators across the room. I am a
witness and my job is to film the scene. But after almost a year my
relationship with them, the guys and the operators, has changed. Over
time almost every day and staying at Casa Felix the distance of the
witness decreases more and more and I am involved in the dynamics of
the house. Was not only unavoidable, but necessary. And that's what I
want in the end, that prompted me to Felix: stay, return, give
presence, so you have to get involved in changing the confidence of
all, because I live there and the house too. "
The
project is supported by the European Community through the program
"Youth in Action". The final version of the documentary is
expected in June 2013.
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photo credits: Emiliano Mancuso
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