ABOUT

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Danzeducatrice® and multidisciplinary artist.

Graduated from Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti di Genova, she has worked with Teatro Nazionale di Genova as assistant director and more recently with ERT - Emilia Romagna Teatro - as dramaturg. Since 2017 she’s been an artist for Fondazione Mus-E Italia. She is mentor and tutor of training courses centered on the creative relationship between body, space and image. She teaches videodance and lecture performance in collaboration with different institutions in Genova. Specific focus is also on phono-visual research applied to the audiovisual world. She currently works on landscapes and sound stories from a theoretical and performative point of view.

Producer and filmmaker, teacher, film critic. Graduated in Literature from University of Pavia and in Film Directing from the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan, he co-founded the documentary-oriented Italian production house Berenice Film. He works as the coordinator of the productions at CISA Film Academy in Locarno, Switzerland, and collaborates as freelance teacher with Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti and Istituto Cinematografico Michelangelo Antonioni. He works as film critic for Filmidee. He leads video dance workshops throughout Italy.

Fabio Poggi (1972), architect with a PhD in Urbanism (IUAV Venezia - Université Paris 12), lives in Genova where he works as a teacher. Among his books and articles: Sociologia dell’architettura (with F. Boni), Carocci, 2011; thanks also to a specific interest in contemporary dance / dance theatre (training, performances): Architettura, città, danza. Il ruolo dello spazio nella creazione, ricezione e analisi di performance artistiche, in “Studi culturali”, Il Mulino, 2014. The active interest in contemporary poetry, which led to some publications over the years, has more recently been directed towards the heterogeneous field of experimental and conceptual writing. 

Elena Melloncelli is an Italian camera operator, filmmaker, photographer and festival organizer. Born in Milan, she graduated in Cinematography from the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in 2015 and participated in several international masterclasses. In 2016, she lived in Prilep, Macedonia, and since then, she has been the co-organizer and co-director, with Darko Gorgieski, of the Winter Apricots Prilep International Film Festival. She regularly collaborates with the documentary-oriented Italian production house Berenice Film, producing both feature and documentary films. 

Davide Palella graduates at NABA in 2019 with his first medium-length film, Sirio. In 2021, he receives a development grant at In Progress with his new project, Shura, mentored by Michelangelo Frammartino. Shura is then selected at the 2023-2024 Biennale College Cinema. Sonnenstube is realized during the 2022 Locarno Spring Academy and screened at more than 20 national and international film festivals. A Short Film About Vanishing is his latest work. He is editor-in-chief for the online film critic magazine Filmidee and film staging professor at the Istituto Cinematografico Michelangelo Antonioni.