Hamkâri

Hamkâri. Hamkâri in Persian means cooperation. If all of us in the world work together, we build a beautiful world," Mahdi Heydari told me during his interview. And one of the main reasons people migrate is to find a job, added Gabriel Maria Sala, an anthropologist and psychologist. Putting a person in a position to work is one of the ways of enhancing the individual and creating new social fabrics. Everyone brings with them a history, a culture, traditions often thousands of years old, and in this way "we can have a treasure that enlivens our country." Because historically every territory is built on the layering of migrations, and South Tyrol's is one of many examples. "This allows us to think of them not as an exception, but as a trend of life in the world," Sala concludes, referring to migratory phenomena. To try to understand them better, I investigated the history of individuals in a dialogue with ten people, finding out what they had left behind, what they found, and what meaning they intimately attach to the concept of Heimat today. 

This video was made as part of the project 
"a trace of the world in South Tyrol."

Managing Institution and project realisation: Volontarius ONLUS
Art direction, project development and implementation, visual identity and website: PianoB Social Design
With the support of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy.