November 04, 2009
"Like a man on earth": the book.
Come un uomo sulla terra (Like a man on earth) is the documentary by Andrea Segre, Riccardo Biadene and Dagmawi Yimer, that has broken the silence on the agreements between Italy and Libya and has unveiled the terrible violence suffered by migrants arrested and dismissed in Libya.

The film has developed within the project from L'archivio delle Memorie Migranti (the Migrant Memories Archive), both conceived by the association Asinitas, in collaboration with Zalab and with the support of lettera27, with the objective of leaving a trail of collective and narrative experience of the migration phenomenon in today’s Italy. 

Come un uomo sulla terra is now in bookstores in uncut version and accompanied by a new book of testimonies of the Migrant Memories Archive curated by Marco Carsetti and Alessandro Triulzi. Enriched by Ascanio Celestini's preface and by the introduction of Christine Weise, president of the Italian Section of Amnesty International, the book is published by Infinito edizioni.
The book contains interventions, besides those of the five authors, by Gabriele Del Grande, Stefano Liberti, Dario Zonta and Boris Sollazzo and 50 minutes of unreleased special contents, including (in italian version) fragments of the audio documentary "We defend Europe!" by Roman Herzog, Dagmawi Yimer’s short film "L'albero" (Tree), an episode taken from "Il deserto e il mare" (The desert and the sea), a collective documentary held with Asinitas school students and a photographic report from Libya by Fortress Europe’s editor Gabriele Del Grande .

The Migrant Memories Archive is part of Confini/Borders, a lettera27 project started in 2008. It aims at collecting stories, memories and testimonies on migration; documenting the migration routes in Africa and at borders; and informing the wider public about their outcomes, both through operating systems such Wikipedia and participatory forums such as the Internet.

Image: detail from the book's illustration, "Come un uomo sulla terra", infinitoedizioni, 2009