Partisan Lives – TodoModo(1)

TodoModo is a group of independent filmmakers, composed of Claudio Di Mambro, Luca Mandrile and Umberto Migliaccio.

Since 2000, TodoModo has produced several documentary works that, while different from each other, share a common focus on historical-social figures or events considered marginal or at risk of disappearing from collective memory.

TodoModo aims to offer, as an alternative to the widespread representations of claustrophobic scenarios of domestic-existential fictions, broader documentary perspectives on a multifaceted and ever-changing historical-social reality. Beyond any illusory attempt at faithful documentation or reproduction of reality, the goal is to be able to interact with the protagonists of the stories being told. This means trying to establish a relationship with the narrator the very moment they find themselves in front of the camera, eschewing the artificiality of pre-packaged interviews, to foster real-time understanding and emotional engagement between those who recount their experiences and states of mind and those who document them.

In this issue of Streeen We present a first pair of works by TodoModo, united by the theme of the Resistance, based on the testimonies they have collected of partisan stories.

The events of Roman anti-fascism throughout a century of life in Baby with the closed fist and, through meetings with extraordinary survivors, the life of the first partisan bands in the Cuneo area in But my love never dies.

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