Diego Fiori

He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where he was, among others, a student of Luciano Fabro. In addition, he followed the lessons of Giorgio Agamben at the IUAV of Venice in Italy. Fiori welcomes the affirmation of Luciano Fabro that the artist transmits his experience without pre-conceptual categories: this perspective will bring him subsequently closer to the theatre and work of Carmelo Bene and the anthropological paradigm of Ernesto de Martino. These suggestions, transferred and reinterpreted in the cinematographic field, will be fundamental also in the approach that will give to documentary filmmaking. Of particular significance for Diego Fiori are the poetics of Pedro Costa, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Vittorio De Seta, Michael Glawogger and the friendship with the Italian documentarist Luigi Di Gianni. The thesis Il potere sui corpi, la potenza del corpo. L'arte come forma di resilienza, elaborated with the guidance of the art historian Giovanna dalla Chiesa, was published in 2015 with the title "Wissen Sie, das Volk fehlt – Zum Konzept der Resilienz" in the German-language magazine "Texte: Psychoanalyse. Ästhetik. Kulturkritik, with which he started a collaboration from the moment on". In the sector of Video art, he began his career in 2009 with the "Trilogy of Silence", composed by: "Donate Silence", "Birth and Death of Alter Ego" and "Last Classical Kiss", winning the Silver Award at the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Poland. The "Trilogy of Silence" participated at numerous Film Festivals and Art Festivals, marking the beginning of a successful season in the production and distribution of short films in the field of Video art. From 2007 to 2010, he was a Subject Expert at the Faculty of Social Anthropology at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, participating, for the visual aspects, in the research activities of the chair. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Subject Expert at the Faculty of Sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone. In 2016 the documentary film The Children of the Noon, co-directed with the filmmaker Olga Pohankova, was presented at the St. Louis International Film Festival in the US, In April 2017 it was awarded with the Coup de cœur du jury at the Festival International du Film Panafricain de Cannes. The short version of the documentary film was transmitted by Rai 3 on 31 August 2017 within the Doc3 format. Since 2017, Diego Fiori has been a member of the Associazione Italiana Scenografi Costumisti Arredatori (Italian Production Designers, Costume Designers and Set Decorators Guild).

His works are internationally recognised and have been exhibited in numerous galleries and festivals such as: • MUSAE – Museo Urbano Sperimentale d'Arte Emergente, Milano (2010); • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2011); • Ibn Arabi International Film Festival, Murcia (2011); • New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos (2012); • Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buonos Aires (2012); • Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena(2013); • El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso (2014); • International Film Petry Festival, Atene (2014); • MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Roma (2015); • Berlin Short Film Festival, Berlino (2015); • Aesthetica Art Prize, York (2015); • Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Mosca (2015); • Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos (2015); • Arquiteturas Film Festival, Lisbona (2015); • Tehran University of Art, Teheran (2016), • Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar (2016); • New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, New York (2016); • University of Oradea – Faculty of Arts, Oradea (2016) • Metro-Kino (Wien)|Metro-Kino, Vienna (2016); • Seattle's True Independent Film Festival, Seattle (2016); • York St John University, York (2016) • Globe International Silent Film Festival, Michigan (2017); • Con-temporary Art Observatorium, "Vita Tua, Vita Mea" group exhibition at Venice Biennale, Italy (2017); • Maverick Movie Awards, Hollywood, USA (2017) • Chicago International Arthouse, Michigan, USA (2017) • Festival de films documentaires Enfances dans le monde, Paris, France (2017) • Barbican Centre, London (2017);

• Last Classical Kiss (Trilogy of Silence) (2009) • Birth and Death of Alter Ego (Trilogy of Silence) (2009) • Donate Silence (Trilogy of Silence) (2009) • Rebus (2011) • Ciao Vettor! (2013) • 1+1 = una más (2014) • The Words Hear the Light (2015) • L'enigma del tempo (2017)

• Fiori di Strada – We Are Not the Crazy (2015) – producer • The Children of the Noon (2016)