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Bringing cinema to the desert | Cinéma du Désert | TEDxBari


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now we are here to tell you

a story a story of something that

first there was no cinéma du desert a

itinerant solar cinema everything is born in the

2009 when me with david is one of the

founders of this project

but let’s start a destination trip

Africa

we had decided to give a more to

this journey and then in the sea of

organizations we contact

the non-governmental organization of children

in the desert

we were traveling aboard a field truck

I would like to have it filled up

as much as possible of material from

deliver to projects of this

organization in africa

and so it was all part and right during

one of the first deliveries we were

so amazed and so pleasantly

shocked by the reception

generosity of this people in one

small village of the evils we wanted

do something to change him and

we decided to give them a gift

material we hoisted the screen

cinema lit the lights of the

projector and like magic under the

stars forges goes to me personally

I really wanted to look with my own eyes

what is this history of poverty

African women who are often talked about for

I went with them I went

around up to burkina faso 16 thousand

kilometers the phenom council

Portuguese with a game in the middle with him

Italians locked in by a truck that

it was also a house that was also a

we have done all this

Street

what I learned in five months

I personally learned that then then a

take much more when the area of

comfort wander and when the area of

safety goes there and when you do not know when

do not do the tourism you bring bring the

form with vvv to over there I also have

learned that it was a big cons

assent to make use of gasoline

while we showed all these

documentaries on ecological problems

so slowly and mo struggled and done

many fund raising to create a

plant voltaic over the truck then

now at least the change does not pollute

thanks to the sun we can continue to

to show our films I’m looking for this

It is one of our prerequisites

we deal with various types of issues with i

our films and documentaries

some are from the mainstream and others are

self-produced by us is one of those

ecology was one of the themes for us

important

in short, after the first trips we can

absolutely affirm that the mal

of africa exists we have already returned

four times up in burkina faso of a

earth and then over the years e

we continue because everywhere there is

need sharing everywhere there is

need to be together to reflect

to smile even in Italy where we are

We have been recently in Greece

refugee camps in refugee camps

everywhere the cinema desserts serves

because all together we are there and

we look at the same horizon from the

why not go even farther

why not go mongolia that

just off the ground in a truck

which is no more than 60 kilometers per hour

so 29 thousand kilometers gone and

return 9 months is nine months

I still tried to reflect together

these emergency situations that

we are living now in this new one

admire the world with which perhaps the

last Mongolian nomads and because everything

it is changing so that logics do not

You know you do not know what will happen in a while

and here we continue in this way

we travel aboard a truck

desert to the other from Eastern Europe e

of the west we can no longer stay

stop the truck and built car e

we have created the cell

we have made a comparison that there

allows you to live cooking

our home is our home

office and we have a large loading area

where we load all the material for

cinema is also what sometimes

we must deliver pre projects to

today 21 countries in three continents 100,000

km and tens of thousands of people

meet and I think from this picture yes

can understand that it’s worth it

the greenhouses cinema almost arrives

always as a surprise and rarely there

we announce we arrive we park

we talk to the village chef and

we ask permission to do some

projections

it all starts by playing with us traveling

also an inflatable castle

so let’s get the games out and some

animation for the little ones

we walk with our faithful dogs

travel companions and then

we wait for you to drop the night for

turn on the projector lights and

give away known magic under the stars

It is definitely and happiness and here we are

the years pass

there are so many things we can do

telling emotions to be transmitted

memories

certainly we made cinema for two

people inside a bump and mongolia

but also for thousands of people in

Africa

what can I say about those two

gentlemen will have had about sixty

I had already heard of

television but they had never seen

mega screen or that fisherman who

after seeing a documentary he comes to us

to say I felt like I was sitting on the bed

my pirogue and from there see it flow

the whole world in front of mine

eyes also seemed to live a movie

in the film because there are also those who run away

from the front of the screen because he is afraid

that the image can come out to hit them

so I repeat so many things that we give for

it is nice to amaze and it is beautiful

get excited together even fat

films, we believe fundamental

to laugh because it is the basis of well-being

of the person but we like it too

reflect

there are many themes that we choose and

we choose with documentary film care and them

bring depending on where we are

of the populations we will meet

We mainly use production not

verbals we manage to overcome the

linguistic gap and create bridges between

different cultures this is a bit the

our goal and then from there we succeed

weave relationships of trust and when

it is possible or when it is necessary

we try to develop projects of

cooperation and solidarity to me has me

always amazed completely like in the

cycle 21 an idea so simple can

have this this power this

perhaps immeasurable impact let’s say e

Mom maybe this our speech up

now he left you curious to know

more

but also also motivated to act

anargiri even more because

I personally have always had this

need that I do not know I do not know

this need arises to exchange

maybe to help but just put me to the

the shoes of others and this world e

just very complex and still always

more connected, however, cinema del

desert is a non-purpose project of

non-profit

so it’s not easy to go

forward with a project that in theory does not

he will make money and anyway for that

It is for the volunteers we thank that

we can go on still going

with or traveling to show the cinemas

free under the stars for many

months give us his time I have to say

that we return the trip in a couple of

week four times as he said

francesca and fourth time let’s go down to

burkina faso and maybe we even manage to

return to the refugee camps of Greece

because it is precisely a humanitarian crisis

human being that is happening near home

our is there in the cinema at the outburst

it can also be can be just the

true power that people feel a little bit

more humane when hope is a bit

hidden and therefore both a project that

part from the bottom that starts from a dream

that has become reality

seven years traveling with a cinema

solar as we said we are ready again

the restart e

and tonight we thought we carry

around a cinema but we also do it

game is a win anthropologist for

example is just this evening we would like to

share a preview with you

a preview that touches and speaks of a

theme that is very close to our heart

and how to say

let’s imagine being in the dark in the

deep dark desert and we leave

together for a little big trip

because climate change has a

problem you remember when it was

the last time we did not beat one

record for the highest temperature

also because we are sincere is really

difficult to have an overview but

all these are symptoms of the same

disease

the biggest challenge that ours

species will have to face in the next

decades is the climate change caused

from man but why worry

why worry about the change

climate and perhaps polar bears are

destined to disappear

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and this is very sad but it is not alone

for polar bears

we must and stop with this

superiority complex that makes us

believe that you are separated from nature

and these our point that of

save nature, nature itself

from the inevitable disasters of the

climate change and that we are

nature

we live inside this ecosystem e

so we will have to act as part of

it to save ourselves

because this is what

it will probably happen in the next

decades the resources will always become

more scarce

there will always be less water and therefore less

food as temperatures will rise

ends up balzerano to what really me

worries only about polita that

they survive the subsistence area

as soon as the last camp changes, well

then these peoples will not know

to migrate well so we will also start to

mass immigration and that in

we will begin to talk about refugees

climate

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certainly we can continue to try to

recycle set up more use the

planes less and less but this is not enough

because this will not take us to

improve our society ad

adapt to climate change

nor to reduce them

what we really need is here

more training a formation that I have

the intention to call education

climatic just like that because

education for people with

tools to distinguish between oaks alde

good and useful for themselves and those

negative and this is not easy a world

in which the media are managed by them

organizations that have interests

opposed to those of people

we have positive examples here

we can look

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how can we do for training

and how to act

our choice was to

to travel

to travel

share the magic of cinema with the

people offering

free access to the fifth because

we believe that education is one

fundamental pillar for dignity

human we connect with populations that

I’ve never seen an image in

movement in their life

we met people who do not

they had never seen the ocean and that did not

they knew about animals inside it

they inhabit others they had never seen

alice in wonderland or cia

research things that we take for granted

we try to share with them

a nice experience

let ‘s make 2009 we traveled in

more than 21 different countries more continents

of 100,000 kilometers traveled e

we will continue to do it because even though

change for the better life is only one

person

we believe it’s worth it

as long as we continue to consume resources

from all over the world and call it like

rating

we can say we are all on the

same boat

and this boat is the planet earth

if we really want to stop i

climate changes

we must begin by changing ourselves

thanks to spectators

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