Colori di strada

Located in a semi-peripheral area of Turin, Borgo Vecchio Campidoglio is a little-known district.

Built starting in the last century, the Campidoglio grew and developed as a working-class suburb until the post-war years: narrow streets and two-three-storey houses – many of them with a small internal garden – numerous artisan activities and a vital socio-economic fabric.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Borgo underwent a phase of decadence.

To counter this tendency, the Urban Redevelopment Committee was founded in the early 1990s, bringing together the neighbourhood's inhabitants, shopkeepers and professionals, and the idea of the Urban Art Museum, to which the documentary is dedicated, took shape.

The project involves the creation of around thirty wall paintings on the walls of the buildings: to contribute to the creation of the Museum, a number of young students from the Fine Arts Academies throughout Italy are called upon, who – together with already established artists – transform bare walls, blind windows and walls into as many pictorial works.

For a few days in October 1998, the streets of the neighbourhood were transformed into art ateliers.

The video aims to document a unique case of popular participation in the redevelopment of their neighbourhood, as well as an original artistic event.