I have made a number of experimental short films and video artworks, both digital and analogue, which have been shown at numerous national and international festivals.
In these films I explore the possibilities of a very short format, working on the viewer's perception, the dilation of time, the pictorial quality of the images and, often, the absence of dialogue.
It's a cinema of sensations, constructing poetic and dreamlike narratives as much through sound as through images.
My cinematographic practice is traditional and solitary, like a painter.
I mainly use light hand-held cameras; I need agile devices to be at one with reality.
I frame, record, edit and compose the soundtracks for all my films.
It's difficult for me to pin them down to a specific genre or cinematographic tradition; I think I've been influenced by filmmakers who have experimented at the frontier of genres; travelled with their cameras in hand; created cinema intuitively from direct contact with the world and nature, in all its multiple manifestations; exploited the power of sound as much as that of images.
I have developed an analogue practice based on the use of old film.
At the outset, I was interested in working with these old films from a pictorial and plastic point of view. I was looking for the imperfections, the cracks, the instability of the images, a more mysterious vibration that contrasts with the sharpness of digital.
From the outset, I chose this tool to tell lost, buried stories, fragments of dreams and fading memories from an undefined past: I explore the other side of the mirror, the negative side of reality.
I also work with archive images.
In this process of reappropriation, I work with or against images, highlighting what they resist and their semantic transformation over time.
It's a way of re-enacting images to understand how they shape the way we look at them and how they resonate today.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Rome in 1978, I have been living and working in Paris since 2009. Although my academic background is in literature and philosophy — I earned an M.A. from La Sapienza University in Rome — my artistic path has been entirely self-taught. I began as a painter, exhibiting in galleries and alternative art spaces, before gradually turning toward experimental cinema and video art. My current work blends digital and analogue formats in a sensory approach where visual poetry, fragmented memory, and interior landscapes meet.
My experimental short films have been presented at several international festivals, including Videoformes, EXiS – Experimental Film and Video Festival (Seoul), Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Proyector (Madrid), Dresdner Schmalfilmtage (Dresden), among others. They have also been showcased in curated programs at institutions such as MACA – Museum of Contemporary Art Alicante and Le Vidéographe (Montreal).
I explore the potential of short and very short forms, playing with perception, the dilation of time, pictorial textures, and the absence of dialogue. It is a cinema of sensations — poetic and dreamlike narratives shaped as much by sound as by image. As the sound designer of my own films, I pay particular attention to the composition and sculpting of sonic matter.