Guiseppe Girardi (Italy)

Giuseppe Girardi
Participant in

  • CologneOFF IV – Here We Are!
    4th edittion of Cologne Online Film Festival 2008
  • VAD – Video Art Database
  • VIP – VideoChannel Interview
  • Born on 01 May 1967 I live in Mestre-Venezia, Italy…in 1990 I entered in a direction workshop called “Ipotesi Cinema” headed by the italian director Ermanno Olmi. In this workshop I was involved into an experimental project of audiovisive expression called “Placing for Memory”…Placing for memory consisted in telling stories observing reality, filming it with video devices, simply letting reality flow in front of video camera lenses, letting people live, talk, tell their stories, trying to catch emotions that life can give…
    From 1991 to 1996 I’ve been member of a group of audiovisive research producing videos about local reality, testing new languages of video expression…
    I realized didactic projects in primary and secondary schools teaching pupils realizing cartoons with the animation of their drawings, and shorts filming stories they wrote…
    In 1997 I realized industrial and advertising videos, working for Aprilia (scooters) and others…
    From 2000 on I’ve been realizing video for concerts and theatre performances…