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Sixty previously unpublished photographs on display at the Cambio Cultural Centre, alongside a screening of Jaur\u00e8s Baldeschi\u2019s documentary \u201cCASTELFIORENTINO: 4 NOVEMBER 1966\u201d.
The toll in Castelfiorentino was heavy: four people died and damage totalled over 5 billion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1966 flood: sixty years on, memories and dozens of previously unpublished images continue to emerge of the tragedy that shook the community of Castelfiorentino (one of the worst-hit towns in the Empolese Valdelsa area) on that Friday, 4 November. The raging waters literally devastated the municipal area, destroying homes, shops, craft workshops and industrial premises, with a tragic toll: four deaths and over five billion in damage.
To commemorate this tragic event, a number of initiatives will take place in Castelfiorentino as part of a wider project, which includes the screening of a \u2018restored\u2019 documentary film and an exhibition featuring no fewer than sixty previously unpublished photographs at the Cambio Cultural Centre (from 4 to 18 November).
The documentary, filmed by Jaur\u00e8s Baldeschi using an 8mm camera, traces every stage of the flood: from the early hours of the morning, to the moment the River Elsa burst its banks, to the current carrying all manner of objects, as well as the destructive effects on the housing stock and the area\u2019s productive, craft and commercial fabric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also worth noting are sixty previously unpublished photographs by Jaur\u00e8s Baldeschi, who, in addition to the film footage, used 14 rolls of film to capture 168 images; these will be on display for the first time as part of a comprehensive selection of 60 photographs at the Cambio Cultural Centre.
\u201cIn September 1966,\u201d recalls Jaur\u00e8s Baldeschi, \u201cI was looking at the photos of Andrea Chenier<\/em> at the Teatro del Popolo starring Umberto Bors\u00f2 in the Bastianoni shop window, when my eye fell on some 8mm film and photographic film which, as they were nearing their expiry date, were being offered at a 50 per cent discount. As I\u2019d bought a film camera some time before, I decided to buy them all in one go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the morning of 4 November,\u201d continues Baldeschi, \u201cI began filming the water flooding the village. The following day, when the waters began to recede, revealing the devastation they had caused, I also used my camera until I ran out of film. Absorbed by the task of editing the film, the negatives from 14 rolls of film were forgotten in a drawer, only to resurface several decades later. And so it was that Antonio D\u2019Ambrosio printed the contact sheets, discovering previously unseen images that nobody had ever seen before. Today, thanks to the support of the Ente and Banca Cambiano, it is possible to view a wide selection of these images and, above all, to watch the restored documentary in extraordinary quality.\u201d
The initiatives marking the 60th anniversary of the Flood form part of a project presented by the Angelo Azzurro UICC Film Club (and its artistic director, Jaur\u00e8s Baldeschi), produced by Banca di Cambiano 1884 Spa and Ente Cambiano Spa in collaboration with the Municipality of Castelfiorentino, the Fondazione Teatro del Popolo, the Cambio Cultural Centre and the Giglio Rosso Photography Group, with the support of the Ciapetti haberdashery and Unipol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The programme is due to be presented on 4 November \u2013 at 4.00 pm \u2013 in the \u2018Sala Parlavecchia\u2019 at the Cambio Cultural Centre, followed by the exhibition opening. The screening of the documentary, meanwhile, will take place at the Ridotto del Teatro del Popolo at 6.00 pm. \u201cThis film and the dozens of images that accompany it,\u201d observe the Mayor, Francesca Giann\u00ec, and the Councillor for Culture, Franco Spina, \u201cdocument, 60 years on from that event, our history (which is the history of all humankind), inviting us to build upon the blank slate of the unforeseeable and to remind ourselves, always, of our courageous fragility.\u201d With a keen eye, Jaur\u00e8s Baldeschi has captured the fury of the water as it surges forth and destroys everything in its path \u2013 what was there a moment before, and is now no more. A \u2018pure\u2019 film, a work of radical experimentation that finds its cornerstone in the aesthetics of the unexpected and the imperfect image. A scene of the moment-after-fear that perfectly embodies that perception of the \u2018terrible\u2019 of which Rilke wrote, whereby existential anguish merges with the beauty of the sublime through an encounter with that which is immense and transcends our understanding, such as death or the deepest nature of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Sixty years on from the flood,\u2019 notes Paolo Regini, Chairman of Ente Cambiano Scpa, “these images bring back not only the memory of an event that left a deep mark on Castelfiorentino, but also the face of a community, its places and the people who lived through them. Recovering, restoring and making such records accessible means preventing a part of our history from being lost and, above all, passing it on to future generations. This is one of the commitments that Ente Cambiano feels most strongly about: preserving the memory of the local area and helping to keep its cultural and human heritage alive. This is why we have wholeheartedly supported a project born out of collaboration between many local organisations, capable of transforming personal memories and artefacts that had long remained hidden into a heritage shared by the whole community.\u201d
\u201cRemembering the 1966 flood in Castelfiorentino,\u201d observes Maria Cristina Giglioli, director of the Cambiano Foundation, which manages the Cambio Cultural Centre, and president of the Teatro del Popolo Foundation in Castelfiorentino, \u201cis important because these images keep the memory alive. We are delighted to contribute to a highly significant project which, through these photographs, keeps that tragic history relevant and turns remembrance into an opportunity for everyone to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixty previously unpublished photographs on display at the Cambio Cultural Centre, alongside a screening of Jaur\u00e8s Baldeschi\u2019s documentary \u201cCASTELFIORENTINO: 4 NOVEMBER 1966\u201d.The toll in Castelfiorentino was heavy: four people died…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":12540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78,77,82],"tags":[119,727,729],"yoast_head":"\nFlood: events to mark the 60th anniversary - Visit Castelfiorentino<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sixty previously unpublished photographs on display at the Cambio Cultural Centre, alongside a screening of Jaur\u00e8s Baldeschi\u2019s documentary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitcastelfiorentino.it\/en\/flood-events-to-mark-the-60th-anniversary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flood: events to mark the 60th anniversary - 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