Alessandro Zangirolami

Alessandro Zangirolami was born in Milan in 1981. Raised in Italy (in a small, silent town just north of Milan), Alessandro started focusing on drawings and illustration in his early education. After graduating in Contemporary Art and Film and New Media aesthetics, he tried to apply his fascination for non-linear storytelling to independent TV productions. After working as editor in news agencies, and as Technical Director in a Milan-based TV Channel, Alessandro worked as a freelance video-maker for Bonsai, a short format-based Italian TV channel, writing/directing/editing six formats aired on the channel. He then decided to get back to school (Temple University), and moved to Philadelphia, in the hope to strengthen (or completely discard?) his idea of a filmmaking far from narrative and close to the physicality of human actions. In his work he explores pauses, obsessions, revelations. The traces of his mixed approach are evident: film (16mm, B/W and color), video (digital and analog), photographs, found footage and found images constitute more and more the visual and sound punctuation of his works. A memory, a known image, a familiar mood: something that asks for a suspension, a revelation. That can suspend the viewer for a moment, allowing the magic to come in. Alessandro Zangirolami was born in Milan in 1981. Some of his projects include the films A Saffron Revolution (2009), Heaven's Gate (2010), Cycads/E Sono Un Topo (2010), Baby Detonate For Me (2010), and the short TV series Houdini (2008), The Life Botanic With Falco Keuten (2008), True Love (2009), and Pirate Tapes (2009).