Auteur : rossella piccinno
Rosella Piccinno is an Italian artist who lives and works internationally. She earned a degree in documentary and experimental filmmaking from the DAMS, Bologna, before to receive, in 2011, a Masters in cinema and digital arts from Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts (France). She has participated in numerous residency programmes developing trans-disciplinary projects between film, video, photography and interactive installation.
Piccinno's work explores cultural identity, the problems linked to discrimination or the conflicts related to power and role games, both in the family and the community. Her work is often characterised by a particular relationship, a nostalgia for the past. She began as a documentary film-maker and remains tied to a typically anthropological approach, using video to establish a deep contact with herself and with the other self, and to develop an awareness of the notion of 'being in the world'. In Piccinno's creative process, cinema, photography or multimedia installations are often used as a pretext to guide an action of phenomenological knowledge, personal or shared,
taking into account the process as much as the result. Whether she works with professionals or interacts directly with people in their daily lives, Piccinno seeks to use film and art as a social catalyst to create a place of mutual listening in order to attempt together to breakdown stereotypes and reinvent a fiction with which to work through a trauma or even to reactivate an archetype. For this reason, Piccinno has oriented her practice towards an approach which blends performance, cinematic and 'ethnographic' genres, pushing herself in the research of art and cinema that are 'ecological and at zero kilometers', realised with people and not just for people, starting from
the elements that belong to an area and its history.