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1984. Second edition of Cinema Giovani festival. Great success for the precedine edition: the event grows bigger, expectation is in the air. The population must be involved. Get the festival out of cinemas, out of the employees circuit, out of the fans’enclosure. There is need to communicate with a broader and occasional audience: those who go to the cinema every night, just to stay out and see some friends; those who talk about cinema, those who don’t; those who wonder: “… A festival?... Cinema Giovani?...” Something must be left into each one’s memory; we need a sign, a strong one, which breaks though the kermesse standard: something about cinema, which’ll leave an enduring image. 150 made up and transformed mannequins perform a movie set: this is science-fiction. Piazza Carlo Alberto: a troupe films, some aliens from out of nowhere, come out of the ground, climb up a ladder very high in the sky-spread their wings and fly- Garibaldi street, another room in Turin. Aliens are ending their journey, flying through the houses. A cinema stands there – Charlie Chaplin – a festival taking place – Cinema Giovani – aliens get in and there they are, sitting in the audience. The involvement gets total: cinema gets out of the movie theatre and all of the city lives this moment, so magic that catches the attention  “far beyond our human world”.