Pier Milanese

The story of the factory worker Pietro Perotti, who worked at Fiat Mirafiori from 1969 to 1985 and participated in the workers’ protests by overseeing communications inside the factory, making stickers, wall posters, texts and drawings in the bathrooms, figures out of papier-mâché and foam rubber, and turning the protest marches into “street theatre.” With his movie camera, Perotti immortalized the situations and workers’ protests at Mirafiori until 1974. Thanks to this unpublished material, the movie paints a fresco of factory life in what used to be Europe’s biggest metalworking factory.

Documentary about homelessness in Turin. Shot on Betacam.

Documentary about advertising made for the 1984 Stuttgart Videocongress festival. Shot on U-matic.

Shot on U-matic.

Several Fiat workers tell the story of their life, work, and struggle at Fiat in the 1960's and 1970's. At the same time, memory makes something alive again in one of the worker's solitary gestures. However, twenty years later....

Turin, Italy, 1973. The FIAT Mirafiori plant is occupied by its workers. After twenty years, a union delegate talks about those days.