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Giuseppe Boccassini is a filmmaker based between Berlin and Italy. After graduating in Film Theory at DAMS, University of Bologna, and completing a diploma in Film Directing at NUCT Cinecittà in Rome, he developed a body of research focused on found footage, archival practices, and experimental cinema.
In recent years, his work has explored the historical and formal dimensions of film noir and melodrama—film noir being central to Ragtag (2022), and melodrama to Desire (2025).
Since 2017, he has been the director of FRACTO – Experimental Film Encounter, a festival dedicated to experimental cinema held at ACUD Kunsthaus in Berlin.
His research also extends to industrial cinema, explored in Blast Furnace (2024), where archival imagery emerges as an immediate presence—closer to a living nature than to a technological device. The film constructs an immersive and phenomenological visual experience, revealing the optical unconscious of the camera and the vitality of its mechanical gaze.
He is currently working on Phantom Ride, a film-based research project that weaves archival footage from early Antarctic expeditions with the aesthetics of the cinema of attractions, exploring perception, landscape, and the cultural imaginary of Antarctica.
His films have been screened at major international festivals and institutions, including the Venice International Film Festival (La Biennale di Venezia), the Museum of the Moving Image, NYC, FID Marseille, Ji.hlava IDFF, Jerusalem IFF, Torino Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Image Forum Tokyo, and the and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, where Ragtag was presented in conversation with film theorist Tom Gunning.
In 2025, the Beijing International Short Film Festival (BISFF) presented a retrospective focus on his work.
His work is distributed by Light Cone (Paris) and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative (New York).
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DESIRE
2024-2025 / 16mm & 35mm / color-b&w / sound and silent / single screen / 30' 00 / 212 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |
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BLAST FURNACE
2024 / 35mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 9' 00 / 212 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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RAGTAG
2022 / HD / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 84' 00 / 278 € distribution: DCP on USB stick |
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AS IN A LAND, A VAGARY
2020 / Mini DV / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 15' 00 / 89 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |
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LUNAR STUDIES
2020 / Mini DV / color-b&w / sound and silent / single screen / 38' 00 / 167 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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LUNAR STUDIES - single channel version
2020 / Mini DV / b&w / sound / single screen / 16' 00 / 72 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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LA NOTTE SALVA
2019 / Mini DV / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 11' 53 / 55 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |
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DEBRIS
2017 / Mini DV / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 11' 00 / 41 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |
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ORBIT
2016 / Mini DV / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 14' 00 / 52 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |
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THE TIN HAT
2015 / Mini DV / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 15' 00 / 52 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |
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LEZUO
2013 / Mini DV / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 17' 00 / 59 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |