The Blue Flowers is an archival film born from a residency dedicated to home movies and private memories. Its starting point is a collection from the Bergamoni family, preserved and digitized by Cinescatti, accompanied by the original audio recordings in which the father commented on his own footage. Two heirs, while revisiting these films, recognize faces and places with precision… until a single silent reel disrupts the flow of memory: unfamiliar people and landscapes, impossible to identify.
This void becomes the heart of the film: a mnemonic glitch where individual memory falters and makes room for other recollections, as if one family archive could merge with the life of another. The Blue Flowers, inspired by the novel of the same name by Raymond Queneau, explores memory as an imperfect and porous system, where absences and short circuits give birth to new narratives.

Created within the framework of the “Reframing Home Movies” residency. Cinescatti Archive.