Gianmarco Donaggio (b. 1991) filmmaker - av artist - cinematographer - film scholar
EDUCATION:
Visual Culture - Master Degree, Dep. of Arts and Cultural Sciences, 2022 - Lund Sweden
Film Production - Bachelor Degree, Arts University of Bournemouth, 2014 - UK - (specialisation in fiction-cinematography and documentary filmmaking)
Fine Art - Diploma, Liceo Artistico, 2010 - Italy - (specialisation in graphic design and contemporary art)
COURSES & MASTERCLASS
Berlinale Talents, Berlinale Film Festival, 2024 - Germany
Autumn Intensive - The Emergent - Malmö Art Academy, 2024 - Sweden
Consciousness and self/consciousness - Praxis - school of philosophy, 2020 - Italy
Davinci Resolve 16: Color correction certified end user - 2020
Free Space, Aesthetics and Sculpture, Stacion - Center for contemporary art, 2019 - Kosovo
Questions of Perception in Art and Science, Berlin Summer University of the Arts, 2019 - Germany
Philosophies of the Visual, UIO, Oslo, 2019 - Norway
Terre di Cinema, International cinematographer days, 2018 - Italy
Story Development, The Blank Space, with Kelly Davis, 2018 - Norway
ARTIST RESIDENCY
Hangar, Centro de Investigação Artística, January - March 2022 - Portugal
Via Farini, VIR artist residency program, September-December 2020 - Italy
MultiMadeira, 2020 - Portugal
GRANT
Norwegian Film Institute Scholarship for Berlinale Talents
Viken Fund for film festival participation
Kulturrådet FLB (Norwegian Culture Fund)
Kulturrådet FLB (Norwegian Culture Fund)
Norwegian Film Institute, Scholarship for cinematography workshop
Kulturrådet FLB Markedsføringsstøtte (Norwegian Culture Fund)
SPONSORSHIP
Resolume - 'In Visible Light' 2023
FreeFly System Inc. - 'In Visible Light' 2023
Kodak Motion Picture - 'In Carne' 2022
Lomography - 'Tracce' 2020
ACADEMIC PUBLICATION
Cinematography in Progress - Academic Journal - Education Committee of IMAGO - 2021 - Belgium
Lund University - Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences - 2022 - Lund Sweden
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FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
Dokufest Film Festival - DokuNights - Kosovo - 2024
Ibrida Festival - Italy - 2024
Map & Fold - Digital Arts Festival - Germany - 2024
Mirage Film Festival - The art of the real - Norway -2023
Biennial of Art of Alentejo - BIALE - Bienal Internacional do Alentejo (Portugal) - March 2023
46th KortFilmFestivalen - Grimstad film festival - June 2023
Venere in Teatro - Festival di danza Poesie del Vuoto - September 2023
7th MalatestaShort film festival - September 2023
39th VideoFormes - Festival International D'Arts Numériques - Focus #1 - Ibrida - France
National Museum of Soares dos Reis - Porto
Stockholm City Film Festival - 2023 - Sweden
Boden International Film Festival - 2023 - Sweden
European Cinematography Awards (ECA) - 2023
Golden Short Film Festival - 2023
FEKK- Short Film Festival Ljubljana - 2022 - Slovenia
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon (Portugal) - 28 July - 15 September 2022
Video Art Projects - Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca - 2022 -Thessaloniki
Internationales Digitalkunst Festival - 2022 - Kulturinsel Stuttgart / Stuttgart
Il Video Rende Felici - Italian video art retrospective - Palazzo delle Esposizioni - 2022 - Rome
Panoramica*21 - Italian video art selection - curated by Alessandra Arnò at Visual Container - 2022 - Milan
Ribalta Film Festival - international competition - curated by Giovanni Sabattini - 2022 - Italy
57th Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro - international competition - premio Lino Miccichè - 2021 - Italy
17th Athens Digital Arts Festival - 2021 - Greece
7th Bogotá Experimental Film Festival - 2021 - Colombia
5th Laterale Film Festival -2021 - Italy
Ibrida Festival - 2021 - Italy
Nordisk Panorama - film market - 2021 - Sweden
Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival - 2021 - Tokyo Japan
Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival - 2021 - Kyoto Japan
7th Cisterna Film Festival - 2021 - Italy
39th Asolo Art Film Festival - Asolo Award Art Films - 2021 - Italy
Visions du Réel - film market - 2021 - Nyon Switzerland
19th One Shot International Short Film Festival - 2021 - Armenia
13th Short Waves Festival - 2021 - Urban View Competition - Poland
MIASTOmovie - 2021 - Urban View - Poland
Cinetekton! International Film & Architecture Festival - 2021 - Mexico
Amerta Art International Film Festival - 2021 - Turkey
Sphere Digital - World Cinema Carnival - 2021 - India
Venice Architecture Film Festival - 2021 - Italy
Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards - 2021 - Italy
9th International Video Poetry Festival - 2021 - Athens Greece
DA Z – Digital Art Zurich - 2020 - Switzerland
24th Avanca International film festival 2020 - Portugal
16th Athens Digital Arts Festival 2020 - Greece
16th Athens Digital Arts Festival 2020 - Technotribalism - Online
Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival - 2020 - Athens Greece
Austin Arthouse film festival - 2020 - Texas USA
16th Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground - 2020 - Argentina
Split VideoArt Festival -2020 - Croatia
Southeastern International Film & Music Festival -2020 - USA
Indo American International Festival of World Cinema - 2020 - India
Assurdo Film festival - 2020 - Italy
Prague International Monthly Film Festival - 2020 - Czech republic
Košice International Film Festival - 2020 - Slovakia
Dumbo Film Festival - 2020 - USA
Berlin Flash Film Festival - 2020 - Germany
Mindfield Film Festival Albuquerque - 2020 - USA
Short to the point - 2020, online - Romania
Tagliacorto - home edition - 2020 - Italy
The month film festival - 2020 - UK
Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards - 2020 - Italy
48-hour film contest - 2020 - Texas USA
Fuenfterloeffel - 2020 - Germany
Fuenfterloeffel - 2019 - Turkey
Short to the point - 2019 - Romania
Bogotá Music Video Festival - 2019 - Colombia
Oslo Open House - 2019 - Norway
Scandinavian International Film Festival - 2018 - Finland
Austin Arthouse film festival - 2018 - Texas USA
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
7th MalatestaShort film festival - Winner film - Music, Dance and Performing Arts - 2023
ReA! Art Fair - 2021 - Winner project - La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
39th Asolo Art Film Festival - Special Mention - Ibrida Festival - Asolo Award Art Films - 2021 - Italy
Roshani International Film Festival - 2021 - winner - experimental covid film
Indo American International Festival of World Cinema - 2021 - winner - best micro film
Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards - 2021 - semifinalist - best experimental film
Assurdo Film festival - 2020 - nomination - best Italian film
Assurdo Film festival - 2020 - nomination - best soundtrack
Prague International Monthly Film Festival - 2020 - honourable mention - best cinematography
Mindfield Film Festival Albuquerque - 2020 - winner - best COVID-19 Experimental Short
Košice International Monthly Film Festival - 2020 - winner - 2nd best super short film
Košice International Monthly Film Festival - 2020 - honourable mention - best cinematography
Verona Fotografia - Verona (Italy) - 2020 - Le Quarantenne - 4th Jury Prize
Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards - 2020 - nomination - best experimental film
Short to the Point International Film Festival - 2020 -nomination- best low budget
Short to the Point International Film Festival - 2019 -nomination- best music video
Scandinavian International Film Festival - 2018 - nomination - best experimental film
Austin Arthouse film festival - 2018 - nomination - best director
Austin Arthouse film festival - 2018 - nomination - best cinematographer
ND photography award - 2015 - honourable mention
Giudecca 795 Art Gallery - 2018 - winner - photo of the month and special price of the year
Leica "I shot it" - honorary mention - photo of the month
FILMS
Commissions - Museums and institutions
Alba Nera - UNESCO, Monastery of Batalha, Portugal
Azul no Azul - The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal
Film Performances - selected works
In Visible Light - Live generated and edited, 60 mins, Norway/Italy
Iconocrom - Live Edited, 30 mins, Norway/Italy
Dance Videos
Nymøn - Dance collective Fuhlen, 16 mins, Italy
Music Videos
Spøkelsesby - Music Video, 5 mins, Norway
Bingen Min - Music Video, 3:45 mins, band Gatas Parlament, Norway
Art Residencies Films
The Lisbon Trilogy - Experimental Film, 15 mins, Portugal
Manifestarsi - Experimental Film, 12 mins, Italy
Milano di Carta - Experimental Film, 7 mins, Italy
ARTICLES
Cinematic Duration as Violence across Cinematography History and Samples - academic article -
Dep. of Arts and Cultural Sciences, 2021 - Lund Sweden
ART FAIRS
ReA! Art Fair 2021 - II Edition - Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
EXHIBITION
-Solo
Azul no Azul - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon (Portugal). 28 July - 15 September 2022
The aura in the photographic form - MultiMadeira , Funchal (Portugal) - 2020
Spazio - Galleri Neuf, Oslo (Norway) -2018
-Collective
Tetralogy: Cintillations of the Celestial Cloak - Igreja de São Vicente de Évora
Tetralogy: Cintillations of the Celestial Cloak - Museu Municipal de Ferreira do Alentejo
Noturnas de Luz - Monastery of Batalha - UNESCO - Batalha
Azul no Azul - National Museum of Soares dos Reis - Porto
Alias - Rea Art Fair winning projects - Opal - 2022 - Milan
Il Video Rende Felici - Italian video art retrospective - Palazzo delle Esposizioni - 2022 - Rome
Panoramica*21 - collective , Museo d'Arte Contemporanea - Comune di Lissone
Panoramica*21 - collective, curated by Alessandra Arnò - Visual Container - Milan
Bringing The Noise Back - collective, curated by Fünfter Löffel - Berlin
IAR - international video art - collective, curated by Ottica Contemporanea, Palazzo Fondi, Napoli
Open Studio - collective, curated by Giulio Verago at Via Farini archive, Milano.
Walk in Studio - collective, curated by Giulio Verago at Via Farini archive, Milano.
Micro speed date, collective, curated by Kamimani, Campobasso/Torino
Festival Internacional Videoarte, collective, curated by Lamosa Lab, Cuenca, Spain
Verona Fotografia, Verona (Italy) - Le Quarantenne
Online exhibition - Insieme
Oslo Open House, Oslo (Norway) - Nå
Destination - Galleri Neuf, Oslo (Norway)
Teatro - Giudecca 795 Art Gallery , Venezia (Italy)
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SELECTED CINEMATOGRAPHY WORKS
Flukten over grensen - VFX Plate - Norway
Seizure - VFX Plate Unit -, Miso Film - Italy
Kjør meg to Ol, Tv show Intro sequence, Concorde - Norway
Bingen Min, Music video, Gatas Parlament - Norway
Inshallah, Short, 35mm, 2k scan - Italy
Nå , 4k Dcp 2.39 anamorphic - Norway
Aurorua, Arthouse, HD Dcp - UK
The rest of Us just live here - Trailer, 2K prores - Norway
Fun days last forever - short, HD Dcp -UK
A simple night blues - short, 16mm print - UK
Cucumber - short, 16mm print - UK
SELECTED WORKS CAMERA/LIGHT DEPARTMENT
-Gaffer
Gunda (feature film), Sant og Usant - Norway
Planten (short), Animaskin - Norway
Kirkenes/ Murmansk (feature film), Kunt Asdam Studio - Norway/Russia
Daddy’s girl (short), Barbosa As - Norway
Wisting, second unit, (tv-series), Cinenord - Norway/Denmark
Bille Van (music video), - Norway
Shotgun, Tix (music video), Expect film - Norway
Bama (commercial), Expect film - Norway
Madcom (music video), Expect film - Norway
Vulnerable (short) - Norway
Kjør meg to Ol (Tv show Intro), Concorde - Norway
-Light technician/Best boy
The Snowman (feature film), Working title - Norway
Wisting (tv-series), Cinenord - Norway/Denmark
En Natt (tv-series), Via Film - Norway
Unge lovende (tv series) - Norway
Okkupert 2 (tv-series), Yellow Bird - Norway/France
Twin (tv-series), Nordisk Film - Norway
As I Fall (feature film), Nfi - Norway
Manifest (short) , Barbosa As - Norway
Ylvis - Stories from Norway (tv-series), Concorde - Norway
Grand Hotel , 4 1/2 - Norway
Neste Sommer (tv-series), Feelgood - Norway
-Camera department
Suburra (feature film), Cattleya - Italy
Il Grande Presidente (short) , Tdc - Italy
Landet (music video) - Norway
TEACHING / TALK
Filming as an Encounter: Falling, Blindness, and Motion - Hangar, Centro de Investigação Artística, 2022 - Portugal
Film as Atmosphere - guest lecture at Academy Minerva (Academie Minerva), 2020 - Netherland
Tracce, analog photography workshop, supported by Lomography.
Tracce, analog photography workshop and research, MultiMadeira, 2020 - Portugal
Tracce, analog photography workshop, Escola Básica do 1º Ciclo com Pré-Escolar Visconde Cacongo, 2020 - Portugal
