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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
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