MEMOFILM. RETRIEVING MEMORY. Meeting and presentation of research regarding cinema as a therapeutic use against Alzheimer, by Eugenio Melloni.

Presentation of research on Memofilm by Eugenio Melloni. Small custom-built films for helping persons affected by forms of dementia, the Memofilms were born in 2004 from screenwriter Eugenio Melloni’s intuition, for dealing with his father’s illness in not remembering his wife’s sudden loss. In five years of experimenting on a scientific basis, while the digital revolution applied to images was exploding, 16 films for the same number of patients were produced with important results at ASP – City of Bologna, and are now collected in a volume published by Mimesis, Memofilm. Creativity against Alzheimer by curator Luisa Grosso with contributions by psychologists, doctors and filmmakers and accompanied by a dvd showing some of these films. An almost unseen format for cinema, with a single spectator as the final addressee. The author will be in conversation with Mirko Labella (psychologist), Maurizio Maggio (neurologist), Franco Prono (Turin University). Introduced by Sonia Del Secco (NCM).