Filmmaker's Diaries
I started manipulating images with 35 mm slides in the 1980s. I used to fill glass slide frames, as if they were sandwiches, with any kind of material I had on hand. I would project them onto people, shoot portraits and put them in sequences. Basically films made of slides, where the soundtrack had a narrative role.
Fabulous eighties!
My stories about the alternative downtown scene in NYC were "given back" to the city and its protagonists with slideshows projected on skyscrapers and where they were made, in the clubs.
My keen attention to new trends and cultural ferments has led me to documenting
the early Graffiti Artists
(such as Rammellzee, Toxic, A-One,...),
the East Village scene
(such as Wigstock 1988)
Berlin historic clubs, such as the old Tresor Club, the temple of Techno or the first Love Parades of the 1990s.
Since the late 1980s I have been seduced by video handy cams and I never stopped experimenting, mixing narrative fiction with video art and reality filming.
Emoticons is a short film, made in 2003,
where I mixed different visual styles. In all my works, the soundtrack always plays an active role, as the narrative voice.
"Two repressed artists, meeting on a chat line and dreaming of their passionate love encounters inside art masterpieces, find inspiration and creativity again.
The story takes place around the turn of the millennium (2000) when CHAT LINES, webcams and mobile phones, were just starting to be popular. The Internet connection had its own sound, then..."
Starring: Martina Gedeck, Carla Signoris, Christopher Makos
Instant Videos Digital Art
During the Covid lockdown, I got obsessed with DIGITAL ART and, using my photos and videos,
I generated works exclusively with my smartphone.
Among them, the digi-prints became
printed on objects, furniture and clothing...
Feature-length screenplays
Forever Girls
a surreal comedy about three drag queens who escape from a sinking Manhattan, chased by the nasty Mr. Trip.
the return of Captain America, aka Peter Fonda, who personally collaborated enthusiastically
on my script, a remake of Easy Rider,
taking place in Italy.
Emoticons, ICONS OF EMOTIONS
a romantic-surreal love story in the virtual world.
TV formats and series
Italian Home Cooking
NIMBY Angels
Fired
NGO Stories
All with a female-driven storyline.
