BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1986 in Germany, Caterina Erica Shanta is a visual artist and film director. After earning a master’s degree in visual arts at IUAV–University of Venice , she started working in the field of moving images and contemporary art. She is the author of movies based on private archives and practices of collective film making. Her works have been presented at artistic institutions such as Biennale Gherdëina, Ca’Pesaro, GaMEC, Careof – non profit per l’arte contemporanea, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Dolomiti Contemporanee, and Mart, and screened at numerous film festivals such as Oberhausen Film Festival, Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Filmmakers Film Festival, and Trento Film Festival. She was selected in 2024 by Gamec to participate in the Artists’ Film International program. She has been awarded numerous prizes, including “l’Italia è un desiderio” supported by MUFOCO, the Italian Council for the development of talents, and PAC – Piano Arte Contemporanea 2024.
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WORK ON DISPLAY
Talking About Visibility, 2021
Full HD video, color, sound
31:24 min
Can a tale born far away, whose origins are lost within the borders of the geographies it crosses, be staged in a different theater, where roads and squares are strictly linked to a national history? This is the question that prompted the artist to organize a workshop of collective cinema in Turin, the city that was the first capital of Italy, working with refugees and people with a migratory past. Together, they began crafting a story rooted in the movies each participant loved as a child. These cinematographic memories, in constant dialogue, here become the soil of interchange and negotiation to investigate the imagery that informs the places where we all live together today.
The film was produced in collaboration with the Artists’ Film Recovery Fund of Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Artissima and Torino Social Impact.