Video interviews

The work of updating the museum included about thirty interviews with local people who had lived through the war years. The Genoese were invited to participate, and the response was important and active, as always.
In the interviews, an objective picture was collected, avoiding influencing the interviewee with overly specific questions, and an attempt was made to document the sharpest memories. This method has limitations, as one often cannot go into the details of the topics unless the interviewee does it himself. The result is, however, absolutely sincere. The basis of the working method is the microstory system, we learned from Grendi how, “Social microanalysis binds more to the basic character of the data taken into consideration than to the size of the social area as such.” But
what reinforced the idea is the experimental character, as pointed out by Levi: “The real problem is the experimental choice of scale size in observation. The possibility of a microscopic observation showing us things that had not been observed before is the unifying character of microscopic research.”
This premise gives strength to the project. The narrating microstories are linked to the territory without ever splitting from the context but giving an additional documentary insight that imposes on us, out of documentary duty, an alternative exhibition museum system.
The interviews divided into mini-videos, as concise as they are representative, are linked to the museum visit through Qr-codes that link back to the videos where it is the local people who tell situations, anecdotes, objects and stories.