Job Film Days 2025 presents “Pillole di archivio”

Following the former editions of the Festival, the sixth edition of Job Film Days presents “Pillole di archivio” to the audience, consisting of short clips lasting roughly 1 minute which will be shown before the screening of each movie.

This year, the clips come from the ASTUT Film Archive – Scientific and Technological Archive of the University of Turin, recently deposited, preserved, and digitized at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa (Experimental Center of Cinematography – National Business Film Archive).

The Archive includes over 500 movies in 35mm and 16mm from Comet Film and Prisma Studio, both Turin-based companies active between the Fifties and the Seventies. In less than a year, technicians and archivists at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia have made hundreds of titles available, restoring rare works by great authors such as Luciano Emmer, Arnoldo Foà, and Osvaldo Cavandoli.

Founded in Turin in 1950 by Gianfranco and Leopoldo Pagani, Comet documented both large and small businesses, especially those based in Piedmont, with a diverse and attentive style, working on commission for both companies and institutions.

Among the documents, some stand out: Battista Pininfarina’s trips to Brazil; production in companies such as Loro Piana, Fratelli Piacenza, Ferrero, and Fratelli Sandretto; as well as the after-work initiatives promoted by Bugnone and Fiat. These are accompanied by a rich advertising repertoire which includes shops, warehouses and products of all kinds, recalling the vivid and hard-working picture of the world of work in Piedmont. “Pillole di archivio” will particularly focus on this area.

Through the presentation of archive material of this quality, a living heritage that the Festival wants to share with its audience, Job Film Days not only highlights the memory of work and enterprise in Italy in general and in Piedmont in particular, but also renews its vocation to use cinema as a tool to read the past and reflect on the present.