As part of the solidarity initiatives for Mutonia, on Wednesday, February 26, at 9:00 PM, C’entro – Supercinema Santarcangelo will host the screening of Hometown Mutonia by ZimmerFrei, a documentary created for the Santarcangelo Festival 2013. The film explores the Mutonia settlement, highlighting its complexities, originality, fragility, shared history, and individual identities.

Mutonia is a strange village inside a village, a temporary town which has been transformed over time, relating to a bigger urban, territorial and social context. It was born out of the anarchic, iconoclastic and experimental spirit of the travellers and cyber punks who founded it; the town has been home to two generations of travellers and has become a place of origin, a motherland to come back to, or to stop and raise children. This original living place, made up of assembled scrap and vehicles transformed at home, now risks extinction, because there is no urban regulation which accounts for such an anomaly, which at its core was created by everyday life and invention, fragility and energy, transgression and the need for roots.

Before the screening, Mayor Filippo Sacchetti and Andy MacFarlane, a Scottish guitarist and resident of Mutonia, will take the stage for a brief speech to share reflections on the cultural and social value of the community.