Multimedia archive of Sammarinese memories

Subject

The Multimedia Archive of Sammarinese Memories is divided into two sections: Amateur Films Section (contact Maria Elena D'Amelio) and Writings Section (contact Patrizia Di Luca).
The Multimedia Archive of Sammarinese Memories aims to collect, preserve and disseminate unpublished, private and personal audiovisual and written documentation of the citizens and institutions of Sammarinese, which will be progressively made public and made available through projects and initiatives and will constitute a source of study and research into the memory of the Sammarinese territory.
Research status: The Memory Archive of the Emigration Studies Centre already contains some autobiographical texts and letters, whose theme is in particular the migratory experience; a section of the archive is dedicated to audiovisual testimonies.
Autobiographical memoirs on various subjects were collected in 2020 through the initiative Raccontare San Marino 1921 -2021.
Regarding amateur, private and unpublished films (Home Movies), it is planned to begin the research and collection of film materials throughout the territory of San Marino, involving citizens, private and public bodies and schools of all levels. For example, the lower secondary school already has various audiovisual materials that need to be safeguarded and catalogued.

The Multimedia Archive aims to research, preserve, protect and enhance individual, family and collective memories through the collection of amateur, experimental, independent and documentary films (Home Movies); written texts, in the form of diaries, letters and autobiographical memoirs. The material will be divided into the two sections that make up the Multimedia Archive of Sammarinese memories.

Research objectives of the Multimedia Archive:

• reconstruction of a collective memory of the Sammarinese community, which includes citizens and residents, Sammarinese living abroad, foreigners living in the Republic of San Marino and those who have an emotional bond with the Republic of San Marino;
• activate forms of collective research through the promotion of citizen participation;

Research objectives of the Amateur Film Section:

• Promote the collection of private and unpublished film materials for teaching and research activities;
• Plan and organize the conservation of original audiovisual documents in adequately equipped premises;
• Rediscover the private and unpublished cinematographic heritage of San Marino, which constitutes a precious visual testimony of local history and collective memory;
• Collaborate with the Home Movies association of Bologna and the European network INEDITS, a European association active in the promotion and diffusion of private and amateur cinema.

Research objectives of the Writings Section

• Promote the writing of autobiographical memoirs that retrace individual and family experiences;
• Collect written materials already produced, in the form of a diary, correspondence, autobiographical memoirs;
• Preserve the collected material according to critical cataloguing;
• To enhance, through initiatives, publications, educational paths and other means, the knowledge of memories;
• Consolidate collaboration with the National Diary Archive of Pieve Santo Stefano.

Status of works

First phase of collection of materials completed. Digitalization of the archive started. Next conference to present the collected documents is planned.