ANALOGICA SELECTION 15 - 2025

REMIXING INDUSTRIAL PASTS
by Chiara Ligi, Mauro Macella
found footage / 2022 / Italy, Luxemburg / 21’ 40’’

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Remixing Industrial Pasts is a collage film about the Minett region, once the core of Luxembourg’s steel industry. It traces the transformation from 19th-century rural land to an industrial hub shaped by migration, expansion, and hidden hierarchies. The collapse of the steel industry in the 1970s–80s left ruins, tensions, and unresolved scars. Through fragmented visuals and sound, the film weaves industry, people, and landscapes into a poetic mosaic. Archival films, documentaries, and photographs form a shifting montage without a single voiceover. Viewers are invited to reimagine industrial heritage as a space of memory, conflict, and possibility.

Mauro Macella, visual designer and media artist, trained in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano and in Video Production in Florence. From 2006 to 2015 he collaborated with Studio Azzurro on international multimedia projects. Since 2017 he co-founded Tokonoma with Chiara Ligi, creating immersive and interactive installations, while also teaching at Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti. 
Chiara Ligi, media artist and creative producer, studied Cinema in Bologna, documentary in Lisbon, and screenwriting with Tonino Guerra. After years with Studio Azzurro, she pursued personal projects across film and multimedia, including works presented at the Venice Film Festival. Today she is part of Imagis Lab and teaches at Civica Scuola di Cinema in Milan.