Overtime
A horror short film edited during a DaVinci Resolve Studio Master Class at the Schnitt Akademie in Berlin in 2025, where I worked on editing, sound design, basic VFX and colour grading.
CASA E BOTTEGA
Role: Video Editor Director: Giacomo Martelli Musical Director: Maestro Mauro Pagani Video content created for the large screens in Piazza San Giovanni, Rome, during the live performance of the Grande Orchestra Rock (Roma Sinfonietta & resident band), in front of an audience of approximately 700,000 people and broadcast live nationwide on Italian television. The visual piece is built around a cinematic cross-cutting structure, designed to create a powerful emotional and social contrast between the protagonist’s present and his past: a Middle Eastern migrant who now works in a pizzeria in Rome. The video explores the protagonist’s alienating routine and solitary experience inside the Roman restaurant. This static dimension is periodically interrupted by a nostalgic flashback, transporting the viewer into memories of his childhood in his native country. The editing process was based on a reference audio track provided directly by Musical Director Mauro Pagani. This made it possible to synchronise the visual cuts precisely with the rhythmic structure and arrangement that the orchestra would subsequently perform live on stage.
LOVE
Role: Video Editor Director: Pier Belloni Musical Director: Maestro Mauro Pagani Context: Video content created for the large screens in Piazza San Giovanni, Rome, during the live performance of the Grande Orchestra Rock (Roma Sinfonietta & Resident Band), in front of an audience of approximately 700,000 people and broadcast live nationwide on Italian television. The visual explores the universal theme of love and the kiss through the history of cinema, combining hundreds of private and publicly sourced photographs with fragments from international films in which the kiss becomes the central gesture. The piece opens with a newspaper article reporting on the censorship of kisses, belly dancing and other scenes considered immoral in Egyptian cinema following the rise of a new Islamist political climate. From this starting point, the visual develops as a rapid and emotionally charged montage of kisses drawn from different eras, cultures and cinematic languages, juxtaposing private memories with iconic images from film history. The editing creates a visual collage in which individual gestures and moments of intimacy transcend their original contexts, gradually transforming the kiss into a universal expression of human connection. The final sequence moves away from the accumulation of images and concludes with a quotation from Jorge Luis Borges’ The Just, ending with the idea that people who remain unaware of one another can nevertheless contribute, through their ordinary human actions, to saving the world. The editing process was based on a reference audio track provided directly by Musical Director Mauro Pagani, allowing the visual cuts to be precisely synchronised with the rhythmic structure and arrangement that the orchestra would subsequently perform live on stage. The visual was created for “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who, one of the ten rock classics selected and rearranged by Mauro Pagani for the 2012 Concertone. The song was performed by Manuel Agnelli, accompanied by the Resident Band and Roma Sinfonietta. The visual contributions were conceived specifically for the live performance and projected on the large screens above the stage.
I Televisionari
A short reportage about a group of volunteers campaigning for the rights of freelance workers employed in Italian broadcast TV productions in 2009.
For this project, I was responsible for ingesting and organising footage from multiple sources, reviewing and editing interviews, developing the narrative structure, creating graphic animations and compositing, as well as sound design, mixing and final mastering for YouTube distribution. The reportage was post-produced using Avid Media Composer.
Tutti a Casa sul Tappeto Rosso
In 2010, a group of freelancers working in broadcast TV productions joined the “Tutti a casa” Movement, a spontaneous mobilisation of Italian audiovisual and film workers that emerged around 2010–2011 to protest against cuts to the sector, the lack of adequate protections, and to call for new forms of collective action. The movement brought together actors, directors, technicians and trade unions, with major assemblies held at the Casa del Cinema in Rome.
For this short reportage, I was responsible for ingesting and organising footage from multiple sources, reviewing and editing interviews, developing the narrative structure, creating graphic animations and compositing, as well as sound design, mixing and final mastering for YouTube distribution. The reportage was post-produced using Avid Media Composer.