Open only from 1966 to 1968, Turin’s Piper Club is still considered one of the most relevant hybridizations of art, design, music and entertainment. Now legendary, the multifunctional disco, bar, theater and live club was a crossroads for artists, authors, architects and intellectuals of the time. 100 Piper is a hybrid documentary which, through archival materials – photographs, slides, vintage posters, and tableaux vivants that reconstruct and restore the original photographs – attempts to tell a story based on few memories and incomplete fragments, and is characterized by a spontaneous, participatory attitude, with little interest in “self-documentation”. The archival materials, restored at the La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Center, are fundamental elements of a free narration and a basically “impossible” reconstruction, which represents this imaginary projection of the Piper Club.
The film is part of the project of Artissima 2017 PIPER. Learning at the Discotheque, by Paola Nicolin for The Classroom.