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A documentary film by Cristina Grasseni & Federico De Musso

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Filmed in Boston in 2011 and 2012, this documentary combines interview and archive material from social networks. Popular Italian Saint’s festivals dot the summers of many American cities. These testimonies focus around St. Anthony’s Feast, the crowded three-day event highlighting the end of summer in Boston’s Little Italy, the North End.

Each year, the Boston's Italian American community, in particular the St. Anthony Society, organises the Feast in which social memories of cultural belonging are recalled and displayed

Traditional Italian songs played by the marching bands are essential landmarks of the North End's landscape and of Christmas in August's soundtrack

The documentary includes amateur footage from the cameras that swarm the parade every year

Cristina Grasseni filmed Christmas in August as David and Roberta Logie Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow (2011/2012)

 

Federico De Musso is Junior Researcher in the Smart[er] Citizens Project of Harvard GSD and Bergamo University and  CORES Junior Research Partner at Bergamo University

 

Distribution and Information

 

crisgrasseni@gmail.com

 

federico.demusso@gmail.com

 

The authors are grateful to

 

the St.Anthony’s Feast Facebook Group Page and

San Antonio Di Padova Da Montefalcione, Inc.

 

for giving permission to include the following archive materials:

Filmed  by

Cristina Grasseni

Edited  by

Federico De Musso

Sound Editing  by

Luigi Suardi

 

This work was supported by

 

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

at Harvard University and The Film Study Center

at Harvard University

 

Many   thanks   to

Paul D’Amore, President

Jason A.  Aluia, Trustee

of San Antonio Di Padova Da Montefalcione, Inc.

 

and   to

Augusto Ferraiuolo,  Anthropologist

for his friendly support in the ethnographic research.

 

 

St Anthony's Feast 2009 - Friday Night Parade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=otZVO-zVzKs

by   Mike Bosco

 

St Anthony's Feast - Sunday Parade - Roma Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbzfCDphspo&feature=related

by   Mike Bosco

 

St. Anthony's Feast 2009 Fireworks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqLDbI3YeqQ

by   Mike Bosco

 

St. Anthony's Feast - End of Sunday Parade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KdMdNZyYno

by   Mike Bosco

 

St. Anthony's Feast - Regina Pizza - Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyg-Kglw4t8

 by   Mike Bosco

 

St. Anthony's Feast - Regina Pizza - Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUMr2aCxe9U&feature=relmfu

 by   Mike Bosco

 

St. Anthony's Feast 2010 - Benvenutti Parade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYAHMXzPy0

by   Mike Bosco

 

St. Anthony's Feast - Sunday Parade - North End Marching Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUwhmVXKBzY

by   Mike Bosco

 

St. Anthony's Feast - Sunday Parade - North End Marching Band - Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LGlQZoF7uY

by   Mike Bosco

 

St. Anthony's Feast - Sunday Parade - Sons of Italy Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWm0y5obMNU

by   Mike Bosco

 

St. Anthony's Feast 2009 - Sunday Parade - Sons of Italy Drum & Bugle Corps by Mike Bosco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z0rbAfNmAs

Moments in St. Anthony's Feast History: 2009 Archbishop Gioia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUserillu0&list=UUQW1sgz4oAsgPzaYxqOy1AQ&index=3&feature=plcp

by  Christian Anthony Guarino

 

St. Anthony's Feast North End, Boston 1973

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcqxhMx3uG0

by  Christian Anthony Guarino

 

Festa di Sant' Antonio e Santa Lucia Montefalcione

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6EkLO1sr7U&feature=relmfu

by  Christian Anthony Guarino

 

St. Anthony's Feast North End, Boston 1956 / Marcia Reale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRJwLMDfnsg&feature=relmfu

by  Christian Anthony Guarino

 

"Feast of all Feasts" St. Anthony's Feast in Boston's North End

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yj7Q9a3J5Q&feature=related

by   Christian Anthony Guarino

 

Documentary Preview - Boston's North End: America's Italian Neighborhood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhMxtqh_8cY

by   NorthEndWaterFront

 

Saint Anthony's Feast & Procession - September 4, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPOJBxCsNN8&feature=related

by   NorthEndWaterFront

St. Anthony's Italian Festival-Feast Day Procession 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydW5yJFVB_Y&feature=related

 

St. Anthony's Italian Festival-Feast Day Procession 1987

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0Zz9F8Ruc&feature=relmfu

 

Italy World Champion 2006 - North End (Boston) Celebrates 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so714YaSKeE

 

St. Anthony's Feast 2008 Confetti 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Cw176TDVs&feature=relmfu

 

St Anthony's Feast #2 Boston's North End 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTfCtrxGZg

 

St Anthonys feast #1 Boston's North End 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0UpYm4Y2EA

 

St Anthonys Feast Fireworks 2011 Boston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LfpU1isXro

 

St. Anthony's Feast 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2grKOHjDQ

 

Roma Band of Boston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_4qJCs0A-0

Additional Archive Material :

 

World Cup 2006 (HD) Best Goals, Saves, and Emotions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuotAWGmaqw

 

Nat King Cole - Arrivederci Roma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaWwegeq9ZI

 

Flashback: Chet Curtis Reports On Pope's Visit To Boston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHi2z0maXsg

© Cristina Grasseni & Federico De Musso 2014