Pirate Screens
2014-2016
After the eviction of Cinema America, we asked ourselves: why should we stop screening films? It was from this question that the idea of Pirate Screens was born. Left without a venue and without a screen, we decided to "steal" it symbolically: our big screen would become the city of Rome itself, with its buildings, monuments and wounds.
Pirate Screens appeared in iconic and forgotten places: Piazza San Calisto, the wall of Cinema Metropolitan, the roof of Cinema America, the wall of Cinema Troisi, Cinema Missouri, Lungotevere degli Anguillara, San Pietro in Vincoli, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Giardino degli Aranci, the city of Venice, the Scalea del Tamburino, up to the great return of the Casal Palocco drive-in.
Roma Abbandonata
2012-2016
In September 2012, Piccolo America launched an ambitious project: an interactive map to report and tell the story of all abandoned buildings in Rome, public and private, provided they were of collective interest. The goal was clear: to collect information, stories, photographs and documents to build a public archive accessible to all, a tool to raise awareness in the city about so many forgotten spaces.
We issued an open call to citizens and active groups in the neighbourhoods, inviting them to contribute to the census with reports and materials. Publishing the map was part of a broader campaign of protest against the systematic disposal of urban spaces, against a culture of concrete and speculation that continued to prevail over reuse and the common good.
