francesco clerici

A mysterious artifact, taken from a collection of unusual testimonies of the past, is filled with attentions by a team of specialists. It looks like a futuristic sculpture, but we discover that it is a scientific instrument.The film follows, step by step, the restoration of a 1950 particle accelerator at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan. We observe the restoration of materials, surfaces and valves, the recovery of memories and gestures. It is a collective ritual: restorers, curators, ancient users of the machine work to transform a "thing", taken from the everyday life of a laboratory, into a museum "object", keeper of different stories.