ABOUT

DOCUMENTARY
IS A PRACTICE.

What is Documentary Gym?

Documentary Gym is a social health initiative that uses documentary filmmaking as a practice for developing observation, listening, empathy and storytelling.

Through collective creation, participants strengthen personal wellbeing, social connection and community engagement.

DOCUMENTARY × SOCIAL HEALTH

Open yourself
to encounters
and to the world.

The project was developed in collaboration with the Mental Health Department of ASL Roma 1 to create an innovative rehabilitation and wellbeing programme outside traditional clinical settings.

OBSERVE

Pay attention to places, people and details.

CONNECT

Meet others and create meaningful relationships.

CREATE

Turn encounters into shared stories.