On Italian television in 1991, immediately after the news broadcast of Mikhail Gorbachev declaring that the Soviet Union was finished a small independent film directed by Renato de Maria was screened called ‘Il Trasloco’. It depicted the moving out of a house in Bologna that acted as the headquarters or central point of left-wing activist groups and individuals that would be referred to as Autonomia.
Featuring Franco Berardi, aka Bifo, and the unmistakable character of the house itself, the film is a heartbreaking recollection of the emptying of a household and the ending of an era, one that is now regarded as one of the most influential workerist social movements to emerge in Italy in the 1960s.
19 years later through a collaboration between Auto Italia and Through Europe, this film was translated and retitled to Il Trasloco (Moving out of the Future). The screening took place at Auto Italia on the 26th June 2010 and was the first time it had been played publicly to an English speaking audience.
Federico Campagna
In 1972, Franco Berardi, aka ‘Bifo’, moved with couple of friends into a flat at the number 19 of Via Marsili, in Bologna’s medieval city centre. In January 1991, a young man from Iran, one from Zaire and the 41 year-old Bifo were evicted from that same flat by the landlord. In between those two dates, not only 19 years had passed through those walls, but also an incalculable amount of people, stories, political movements, zines, free radios, police raids, and all sorts of poetic and existential experiments. [Read more]
Richard John Jones
Il Trasloco (Moving out of the future) is a 1991 independent documentary directed by Renato de Maria, was screened for the first time in the UK with English subtitles as part of a project by Auto Italia South East, London. The film is set in Bologna and retrospectively depicts the history of one of the key places where Autonomia took place during the 1970s. It was translated and subtitled through a collaboration between Auto Italia and Through Europe. [Read more]
