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Giulio Squillacciotti

Based in Europe, represented by Pietrosanti Agenzia Letteraria (Italy) + C41 (France and The Netherlands)

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Giulio Squillacciotti (Rome, 1982) is an artist and award-winning filmmaker whose work navigates the speculative potential of history through fiction, mystification, and the reactivation of collective memory. After studying Medieval Art History and Humanities in Rome and Barcelona, he earned a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the IUAV School of Architecture in Venice. He was subsequently a residency fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht where he developed “What Has Left Since We Left”, a speculative project comprising a film and a book on the dystopian end of Europe and the loss of a shared fictional identity.

His works—ranging from film documentary to fiction and experimental installations—are crafted within diverse geographical and cultural contexts, creating immersive environments that reflect on how identities are constructed, performed, and remembered. Squillacciotti's practice focuses on reconstructing specific human, social and political dynamics and rituals as mirrors of broader, universal narratives. Through speculative storytelling, staged reenactments, and deliberate anachronism, he explores the interplay between fact and fiction in shaping collective narratives and shared imaginaries.

He is currently developing his first feature film, set in Ireland during the aftermath of the 2008 economic crash. The project is co-produced by Italy (Emma Film), Ireland (Wildcat Pictures) and Poland (Lava Films), and has received support from MEDIA Creative Europe, Screen Ireland, and the MIC Italian Ministry of Culture’s Film Fund.

His work has been exhibited and screened internationally at film festivals, cultural institutions and museums such as —among the others:
the MUBI platform, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Les Rencontres Internationales at Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Louvre Museum and Gayte Lyrique in Paris, the Berlin Haus der Kultur der Welt and Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Neues Museum in Weimar, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Screen Space and Monash Gallery in Melbourne, the Manifesta 8, Le Magasin CNAC in Grenoble, Cinema Akil in Dubai, the New York Photo Festival and Dumbo Video in New York City, the Art Institute of Boston, the Instant Image Hall and Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Ballroom Marfa in Texas, Het Nieuwe Instituut of Rotterdam, Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture and Istanbul Modern Museum, the Bonniers Konsthal in Stockolm, Fundacion Proa in Buenos Aires, CAC in Vilnius, the Beirut Art Centre in Lebanon, OCAT in Shanghai, the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade; in Italy, among the others, at PAC, Triennale, Careof, MACRO, MAXXI, the 16th Rome Quadriennale, MAMbo, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione ICA, GAMeC.