Alessandro Zangirolami
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
- Writer
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).