°BIO

After completing a degree in film studies in Rome university and a diploma in cinematography Chiara Caterina attended a post-degree in Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. She develops films and moving-image works that explore hybrid and unconventional narrative at the border between experimental cinema, documentary forms, and visual art. Her short film Avant la nuit was awarded with the first prize at the Festival Cinema Zero 2013 in Trento (Italy) and selected among others at the 27 European Media Art Festival in Osnabrueck, the 30th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, the 10th Berwick Film and Media art Festiva, the Videoformes 2015 International Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, Kasseler Dok und Video Fest. Her documentary Il mondo o niente was selected among others at the 58 Festival dei Popoli and the Festival du cinéma de Brive. In 2021 her short film L’incanto [Enchantment] premiered at 36 International Critic's Week at 78 Venice Film Festival in 2021 and was screened and awarded internationally. La stanza lucida [Lucid Room] (2022) was selected at the 37 International Critic's Week in Venice. Her latest short film Objet d’énigme [Object of riddle] will premiere in the Tiger Short Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam.