ENG - Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri directs artistic research films and documentaries.
After graduating in sound technique from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and in Literature from the University of La Sapienza, she works on the art of images and sounds, exploring different styles and media, from the use of super8 film to computer graphics. She directed and edited several short films and a medium-length documentary MY SISTER IS A PAINTER, where she investigates memory and vision through the pictorial work of her sister Lisa.
AMOR, her first feature film, was in the official selection of the 80. Mostra Internazionale D'arte Cinematografica, La Biennale di Venezia, and nominated for the IDFA Award 2023 for Best First Feature.

IT - Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri è regista di film artistici di ricerca e documentari.
Dopo il diploma al Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma in tecnica del suono e la laurea in Lettere all’Università degli Studi La Sapienza, si dedica all’arte delle immagini e dei suoni esplorando diversi linguaggi e supporti, dall’uso della pellicola super8, alla computer grafica. Realizza diversi cortometraggi e un mediometraggio documentario MY SISTER IS A PAINTER (2014), dove indaga la memoria e la visione attraverso l’opera pittorica di sua sorella Lisa.
AMOR è il suo primo lungometraggio, selezionato fuori concorso alla 80. Mostra Internazionale D'arte Cinematografica, La Biennale di Venezia, e candidato a IDFA Award 2023 come Best First Feature.




2005 Degree in Literature, Sapienza University, Rome
2003 Diploma in Sound Engineering, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC), Rome




2023 Rome International Documentary Festival - Special Mention | AMOR
2023 Rome International Documentary Festival - Best Sound | AMOR
2022 Milano Film Network Award - 2° prize | AMOR
2019 Premio Solinas - Best Subject for Documentary Film | AMOR
2015 Bellaria Film Festival - Casa Rossa Art Doc | MY SISTER IS A PAINTER
2013 Video Arte Tonino Derme - 1° prize | MICROBIOMA









2023 Vacations in the subconscious @ Alphabet Art Centre, Cologne (DE)
2020 L’Aperossa Unarchive, AAMOD, Teatro Garbatella, Rome (IT)
2019 La Foresta, c/o Stazione dei treni, Cineforum Rovereto, Pupille, Rovereto (IT)
2019 La Casa del Cinema, La Festa di Roma 2019, Cinema Luna, Rome (IT)
2018 POLO 900, Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa, Caro Diario, Turin (IT)
2018 MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Fuorinorma, Rome (IT)
2018 L’Isola del Cinema, Fuorinorma, Rome (IT)
2018 Casa Internazionale delle donne, Fuorinorma, Rome (IT)
2017 Iuav Venice University, curated by Marco Bertozzi, CINEMA PERFORMANCE, Venice (IT)
2017 ARTEFIERA2017, Mambo, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, CORPO SENSIBILE, Bologna (IT)
2017 CologneOFF, The Refugee! Film Collection, Cologne (DE)
2016 MAXXI, National Museum of 21st Century Arts, #ACortodiCibo, Rome (IT)
2016 La Casa del Cinema, curated by marechiarofilm, USA E GETTA, Rome (IT)
2015 Spazio Menomale, Archivio Aperto, Bologna (IT)
2015 Timiryazevsky Biological Museum, Collection Video Biomus, Moscow (RU)
2015 The Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC), IMPLICATION, Shillong (INDIA)
2013 MMOMA, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Now&After, (RU)
2012 CASA DEL ARTE, Auf der Suche, Zurich (CH)
2010 CAMERAVIDEO, Loop Festival, Barcelona (ES), Kaunas in Art festival, (LT), Tina b Festival, Prague (CZ), Sils Project Space, Rotterdam (NL), Medionauta, Milano, Cine MPX, Padova, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
2005 Palazzo dei Congressi of Rome, 49° Congresso Mondiale IFHP, Rome (IT)
2004 Museo Civico del Santo, Quotidiana 04, Padua (IT)




2023 RIDF Rome International Documentary Festival, World Doc Competition (IT)
2023 ADOX Festival, Anykščiai, (LT)
2023 Scanorama, Vilnius, Main Competition (LT)
2023 36 IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Luminous (NL)
2023 80. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica La Biennale di Venezia, Out of Competition (IT)
2022 Now&After’22, THE POSSIBLE AND THE IMPOSSIBLE, Fabrika Center for Creative Industries (RU)
2022 Fuorinorma, Festival Simposio, SCENA (ex Film Studio) Rome (IT)
2021 The 2021 Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angeles, California (USA)
2021 Traverse Vidéo, XXIV International Encounters Traverse, Art is to do, Toulouse (FR)
2021 25. JI.HLAVA International Documentary Film Festival, Fascinations Competition, (Czech Republic)
2021 The 5th Busan Inter-City Film Fest, Busan, (South Korea)
2021 39th FIFA, International Festival of Films on Art, Action 1, Montreal, (CANADA) online
2020 Efebo D’oro Event, Palermo (IT) online
2020 Fuorinorma, (IT) online
2018 Strano Film Festival, Valle del Tirino, Abruzzo (IT)
2018 Lago Film Festival, Revine Lago, Veneto (IT)
2018 Festival Oodaaq, Rennes, Saint-Malo, France (FR)
2018 International Art Video Festival of Casablanca, (Marocco)
2018 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France (FR)
2018 Now&After’18, ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow (RU)
2017 Interference Festival, Gdańsk, Poland (PL)
2017 CologneOFF, Cologne (DE)
2016 Now&After’16, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow (RU)
2015 Festival CinemaZERO, Trento (IT)
2015 roBOt 08 Festival, Bologna (IT)
2015 Bellaria Film Festival 33, Bellaria (IT)
2015 Lago Film Festival, Revine Lago, Veneto (IT)
2015 Pesaro Film Festival, The Very Eye of Night, Pesaro (IT)
2015 CologneOFF, IMPLICATION, Shillong (INDIA)
2014 Rome Film Fest, Wired Next Cinema, Rome (IT)
2014 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France (FR)
2013 CologneOFF IX, Cologne (DE)
2013 Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro (IT)
2013 Pontino Short Film Festival, the 9th edition, Latina (IT)
2012 Exis, Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul (KR)
2011 Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France (FR)
2009 Avvistamenti, International Video Art Exhibition, Barletta (IT)
2009 Rome Film Fest, FishEye, Rome (IT)
2008 Rome Film Fest, Extra, L’immagine, il movimento, Rome (IT)
2008 A Corto di Donne Festival, Naples (IT)
2007 Big Screen Festival 2007 of Kunming (CHINA)
2007 Emovie, Arcipelago, Cinema Intrastevere, Rome (IT)
2002 Festival Sonìcity, Corviale, Rome (IT)
1999 Premio [Duel] Videoclip, MEI, Faenza (IT)




2023 THIS IS IT, When East Meets West, Trieste Film Festival (IT) | AMOR
2022 Milano Film Network Atelier, Milano Industry Days (IT) | AMOR
2021 Vision Du Réel Industry, VdR-Industry (CH) online | THE WATER'S TALE
2018 IDS, Italian Doc Screenings, Bari (IT) | AMOR




2022 UNARCHIVE, Suoni e Visioni Masterclass, Le immagini che ci ri-guardano, with Gianluca Abbate, curated by Giacomo Ravesi and Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, Rome (IT)
2022 Fuorinorma, curated by Adriano Aprà and Ivelise Perniola, Roma Tre University, Rome (IT)
2019 Contemporary Women's Cinema And Media Aesthetics, Identities, and Imaginaries | XXV International Conference of Film Studies, Roma Tre University, Rome (IT)
2017 Cinema Performance, curated by Marco Bertozzi, Iuav Venice University, Venice (IT)




2021 CINEma e oltre, donne e pratiche audiovisive in Italia a cura di Lucia Cardone, Elena Marcheschi, Giulia Simi, Flussi e stratificazioni della memoria nell’opera di Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri, saggio di Lucia Tralli, Postmedia Books
2019 Fuorinorma. La via neosperimentale del cinema italiano, curated by Adriano Aprà, ARTdigital
2018 Quaderni del CSCI, n 14, Controcorrente. Cinema neosperimentale italiano, curated by Adriano Aprà, Daniela Aronica




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