ABSTRACT
The chapter reflects upon the representation of artistic heritage in Italian and Polish non-fiction cinema after World War II. The question of the postconflict condition of the heritage as ruins is here examined through its presence on screen. The representations of postwar ruins relate to the politics of reconstruction after WWII, in the double effort to state the traumatic memory of war and violence and to give impulse to urban regeneration processes. We would like to offer a comparative survey of the encounters between public art, political memory, and visual culture.
