A vibrant collection of filmed memories that tells the story of the deep bond between Italians and the mountain landscape. A bond that evolves throughout the twentieth century, as technological innovations and mass tourism begin to open up the peaks to an ever-growing number of people. Once remote and silent, the mountains become shared spaces—places of leisure, adventure, and everyday life.

The recovered films form a varied corpus of images that take us back to Parma: its neighborhoods, streets, squares, and surrounding countryside. Still-living rituals (like the crickets in the Ducal Park or the market in Ghiaia) appear alongside others that have nearly disappeared (the circus in Cittadella, the San Giuseppe fair, traditional artisan workshops). There are strikes, protests, and struggles from the 1960s, new educational ideas such as those of teacher Ulisse Adorni using Super 8 film, and films made by students and families to capture places, faces, and fleeting moments. Other footage takes us into the Parma Apennines, through a still-recognizable landscape of outings and excursions. Female perspectives reflect a changing society, and stories emerge of bakers, mechanics, tram drivers, all united by a shared passion for amateur filmmaking. In this way, private memory becomes collective, reassembled into fragments that tell the story of Parma and its twentieth century.