Giulia Savorani (1988) is visual artist and filmmaker. She graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. Afterwards she deepened her studies in filmmaking at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan. In 2019 She completed the master Moving Images Art at the Iuav University of Venice.
Her films and installations have been internationally presented in Australia, South Africa, Switzerland, Greece, Russia, Lithuania, China, Belarus, Belgium, Turkey and in several Italian cities.
She won the Video Art Award 2022, an Award dedicated to video art between Italy and South Africa, Centro Luigi Di Sarro,
Rome, Italy, and the Next Generation Film Festival 2022 with the best artist’s film.
From 2019 to 2021 she has collaborated as audio video operator for Zapruder Filmmakersgroup.
In 2021 she realised the animated film for the exhibition The Glass Ark, animals in the Pierre Rosenberg collection, at Le stanze del Vetro, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.
She works as teacher in middle school and at Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan.
"The media I work with are video, animation, analogue and digital audiovisual techniques, installations, drawing and painting, following a path of continuous technical and linguistic experimentation.
My research lies on the borderline between visual arts and cinema.
As a consequence of an intolerance for the absolute meaning of the single image, I generate stratified narratives, far from the classic narrative mode based on story and plot. Rather,
I create flows of images and meanings that are established in the midst of the creative process, often showing its devices.
I pursue an idea of art and cinema as thought processes in action, which consequently define themselves as possibilities of emancipation from the subtle mechanisms of imposition and overpowering intimate and social.
Artistic practice itself becomes the scene of a learning process in which I probe the psychic and bodily relationships constantly activated in our daily lives. My attention is often directed towards the relationship
between human beings, animals, plants and bacterial micro-organisms, with particular attention to the techniques of coexistence between them.
I frequently compose with archive material, coming from personal, institutional or unknown sources."
EDUCATION
2018 - 2019 Master Moving Images Art - Iuav - Venice, Italy
2014 - 2016 Filmmaking - Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti - Fondazione
Milano - Milan, Italy
2011- 2013 MFA Visual Arts, Painting - Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera - Milan, Italy
2007 - 2011 BFA Painting - Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera - Milan, Italy
SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS
2023 - Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra, Astralia
2023 - Cine Animal Fest, Bogota, Colombia
2023 - Video Art Garden, Timisoara, Romania
2023 - Film (in)finiti, film mai finiti, Unza!, Milan, Italy
2023 - Indocili, curated by Tafano, film ¡Que viva, Cinema Beltrade, Milan, Italy
2022 - The Next Generation Film Festival, film ¡Que viva wins Best Artist Film, Bari, Italy
2022 - Strano Film Festival, Official selection, film ¡Que viva, Capestrano (AQ), Italy
2022 - Lago Film Festival, Official selection, National competition, film Tutablu, Revine Lago (TV), Italy
2021 - Kinolikbez XI Film Festival, Official selection animation and video, film ¡Que viva, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 - Terre da Film Festival, Official selection animation, Canelli (AT) Italy
2021 - Le Video Festival, Official Selection of the film Venus, Brescia, Italy
2021 - T-short Animated Film Online Festival, Official selection in to the Experimental Out-of-competition, film ¡Que viva, Latvia
2020 - Green Ideal, Paratissima, Biennale Tecnologia, Official selection, online screening and exhibition, Torino, Italy
2020 - Official selection of the film ¡Que viva, ISFFC Internationa Short Film Festival Canton, Canton, China
2020 - 66 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Open Screening online, with the film ¡Que viva, Germany
2020 - Short Movie Club Film Festival, Unfiltered Cinema, with the film ¡Que viva, Minsk, Belarus
2019 - Filmmaker Festival selection Prospettive, with ¡Que viva, Milan, Italy
2019 - Screening of La Statua, in context of Fare/pensare, modi e stili della ricerca, Macro Asilo, Rome, Italy
2019 - Screening of La Statua during 55a Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Teatro sperimentale Sala Pasolini, presentation of the project Re-framing home movies,16 June, Pesaro, Italy
2019 - End of the Species, presented by ZapruderFilmmakersgroup at Palazzo Badoer Iuav Venice, Italy
2018 - Filmmaker Festival Milano, selection Prospettive with La Statua, Milan, Italy
2018 - Terminalia cantieri mobili, 4th September, screening of the film Parco Lambro, Monte
San Martino (MC), Italy
2017 - Invideo INVIDEO - 27ª International exhibition of video and cinema, Giuseppe Baresi
presents Young Authors, Milan, Italy
2017 - Milano in 48 h, da vicino nessuno è normale, Ass. Olinda, selezione Satellite, Milan, Italy
2017 - Cineteca Nazionale, vicolo del Puttarello Roma, selezione Satellite, Rome, Italy
2017 - Bergamo Film Meeting, section Europe Now - Cilect, Bergamo, Italy
2016 - Filmmaker Festival Milano, selection Prospettive, Milan, Italy
2016 - 52 Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro, selection Satellite, Pesaro, Italy
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2023 - Tent a School of Performative Practice, artist residency in the space of Gessneralle, Zurich, Switzerland
2023 - Tent a School of Performative Practice, wpZimmer, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 - Tent a School of Performative Practice, artist residency in the space of Gessneralle, Zurich, Switzerland
2021 - Closing soon, Athens, Greece
2021 - Innesto spazi di ricerca, Ravenna, Italy
2017 - Re-framing Home Movies, Artist Residency in video archives, Cinescatti, Bergamo -
Cineteca Sarda, Cagliari- Archivio Superottimisti Associazione Museo Nazionale del Cinema,
Torino. Curated by Gianmarco Torri e Karianne Fiorini, Italy
2014 - Artist Residency , Bains Connective, Rue des Alliés 54, Bruxelles, Belgium
2012 - Artist Residency, “IO NON SONO QUI”. Curated by Cristina Muccioli, Mondolfo (PU), Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - BANGFLUTTITUTU, ONOFF, curated by Roberta Perego, Milan, Italy
2021 - IN VITRO, Closing soon, Athens, Greece
2014 - Parcours d’artiste, Giulia Savorani and Maia Gusberti, Bains Connective, Bruxelles, Belgium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 - Liberi (Tutti), In Habitat, curated by Silvia Concari and Alessio Vigni, Verona, Italy
2021 - Sonnentag, Innesto spazi di ricerca, Ravenna, Italy
2020 - Windows, exhibition at Closing soon, Athens, Greece
2020 - Lonely at the party, Metaforte, Cavalino Treporti, Venezia, Italy
2019 - Istanbul Biennal IKSV Parallel events, Beyond Language, curated by Benedetta Casagrande and Lara Özdoğan, Kıraathane EDEBİYAT EVİ, Istanbul
2017 - Biennale Giovani Monza, Serrone Villa Reale, Monza (MI), Italy
2016 - Screen Garage, Corso Sempione 34, Milano, Italy
2015 - LocalArt, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, Mondovì (CN), Italy
2015 - Studi Festival #01, Milano, Italy
2013 - All'idrogeno, contemporary art gallery Fabbri.ca, via Stoppani 15 Milan, Italy
2012 - “IO NON SONO QUI”, curated by Cristina Muccioli,Mondolfo (PU), Italy
2012 - Studio Comune Esposizione, Casa degli Artisti, via d'Apulia 12 Milan, Italy
2009 - “Il ritorno dell’Ofisauro”, Bergamo, Italy
2008 - “Salon Primo 2008”, Academy of Fine Arts Brera, second prize for video, Italy
2007 - “Maestros y Discepulos II ” Academy of Fine Arts of Milan and Cordoba, Argentina
AWARDS
2022 - Best Artist Film to the film ¡Que viva, The Next Generation Film Festival, Bari, Italy
2022 - VAA, Video Art Award, Award dedicated to video art between Italy and South Africa, Centro Luigi Di Sarro, Rome, Italy
2008 - Second Prize for video, Salon Primo 2008, Academy of Fine Arts Brera, Milan, Italy
MENTIONS
2021 - International Short Film Competition, One-Reeler, special mention for the film ¡Que viva, Los Angeles, USA
2016 - Special mention for the selection La Ville Ouvert / Mediterranean Landscape, Cantieri
d’Arte e Arci/La Ville Ouverte, BJCEM - Biennial Mediterranean European Young Artist
LECTURES
2018 - Unifestival, University of Macerata, Ritenzione della Traccia, Blinding by light, with
Francesco Martinazzo, Macerata, Italy
2018 - Academy Fine Arts Brera, Prova aperta, Milan, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
2021 - PHROOM Platform for visual culture, online video publication
2020 - Lonely at the party, curated by Eleonora Bonino, Valerio Conti, Pauline Maure, Stefano Pelosato, Giulia Savorani, ABC, Adriatica Book Club, Venezia, ISBN 978-8-89848-860-5
2019 - La ritenzione della traccia. Comunicazioni e ricerche di estetica, conference proceedings, curated by Pier Francesco Corvino, Filippo Focosi, eum Edizioni Università di Macerata, Macerata 9-11 April 2018, ISBN
978-88-6056-635-5
2014 - Bains Connective
ARTICLES and INTERVIEWS
2021 - Les noveaux riches, IN VITRO
2019 - Filmmaker Festival Milano, interview, ¡Que viva
2019 - Macro Asilo, Rome, The Statue
2018 - Filmmaker Festival Milano, interview, The Statue
2017 - Teorema cinema
2017 - Corriere TV Torino
2017 - Espoarte
