Giulio Squillacciotti

Based in Europe, represented by Pietrosanti Agenzia Letteraria

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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.


CV

EDUCATION
2018-2019 Jan Van Eyck Academie - Residency Fellow. Maastricht (NL)

2007-2009 MA in Visual Arts - University of Architecture IUAV. Venice (I)

2009 Advanced Course in Visual Arts with Walid Raad - Fondazione Antonio Ratti. Como (I)

2004 Visiting Scholar - Faculty of History and Geography - University of Barcelona (E)

2002-2006 BA in Medieval Art History - Humanities - Sapienza University of Rome (I)

SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS and FUNDS
2025
MIC Italian Ministry of Culture - Feature Film Development Grant (I)
SLOW FOOD PRIZE - CinemAmbiente Film Festival (I)
2024
SCREEN IRELAND - Feature Film Development Grant (IRL)
2023
MEDIA Creative Europe - Feature Film Development Grant (IRL, I, PL))
PAC (piano per l’Arte Contemporanea) - Production Grant (I)
2021
WINNER ‘BEST STORY’- London Film Festival. London (UK)

2020
LIMBURG FILM FONDS - Production Grant (NL)
 BRAND CULTUUR FONDS - Production Grant (NL)

KANNUNIK SALDEN - Production Grant (NL)
2019
TALENT PRIZE 2019 - Winner (I)
ITALIAN COUNCIL - Production Grant (I)
 DOMMERING FONDS - Production Grant (NL)
ALTRO/VE - Research Grant. Regione Veneto (I)
BEST DOCUMENTARY - Fiumicino International Film Festival (I)
2018
ARTE VISIONE - Production Grant. Sky Arte. Milan (I, UK)

STIMULERING FONDS for the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (NL)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - 27th International Film Festival Belgrade (SRB)

2013
MOVIN’UP - Residency Grant (I)

2011
FILM COMMISSION GRANT - Royal Spanish Academy at Rome (I)

2010
STONEFLY PRIZE - Winner. Venice (I)
 FESTARTE - Winner. MACRO Testaccio. Rome (I)

TALENT PRIZE - Special Mention (I)

2009
PORTFOLIO INVITATION - The Dock. Carrick-on-Shannon (IE)

2008
FIRST PRIZE - Group Show. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venice (I)

2007
CASINÒ AWARD - Group Show. Fondazione Bevilacqua. Venice (I)

SOLO SHOWS
2025 Wonders of the Modern World. Fondazione ICA, Milano (I)
2024 A War Play. Pinacoteca Levis. Chiomonte (I)
2021 What Has Left Since We Left. Careof. Milan (I)

2021 Artists’ Film International. Gamec. Bergamo (I)

2020 EURAMIS. Spazio Cordis. Verona (I)

2019 Vrijdag Antwerpen. Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck. Milan (I)
The Pit Call. Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)

2017 Visto due volte. Barriera. Turin (I)

2013 Academy Awards. Viafarini DOCVA. Milan (I)

2011 Dialogo. With Antoni Muntadas  - Royal Spanish Academy at Rome (E/I)

2010 Inside Stands to Outside as One to Infinite - Galleria Artericambi. Verona (I)
Ottozoo Project Room - Ottozoo Gallery. Milan (I)

2006 New, Last Year's Eve - Le Vetrine. L. Quaroni University of Architecture. Rome (I)


SELECTED SHOWS and SCREENINGS
2025
Rencontres Internationales. Loods6, Amsterdam (NL)
XXVIII CinemAmbiente Film Festival. Torino (I)
XXXI CinEco International Environmental Film Festival. Seia (PT)
XI PerSo Film Festival. Perugia (I)
X Documentaria Film Festival. Noto (I)
XXXI Film Festival della Lessinia. Verona (I)
Rencontres Internationales. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin (D)
Pensare Come una Montagna. GAMEC. Bergamo (I)
2024
Rencontres Internationales. Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles. Paris (F)
MADE Festival. Bergamo (I)
2023
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (D)
Dance Me To The End Of Love. PAC. Milan (I)
XXL Dreams. Laak. The Hague (NL)
Transitions Festival. Cinema Lumiere. Maastricht (NL)

2022
Meditations on Europe. Garage. Rotterdam (NL)
Europe doesn’t fall from the sky. Fondazione Imago Mundi. Treviso (I)
What you see is what you get. Filmhuis. The Hague (NL)
2021
Rencontres Internationales. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin (D)
RIPB. Musée du Louvre Auditorium. Paris (FR)
Not Quite Nearly Fine. Fondazione Baruchello. Rome (I)
Out of the Box. Klub Solitaer, Chemnitz (D)
Artists’ Film International. Whitechapel Gallery. London (UK)
Artists’ Film International. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (IRL)
Artists’ Film International. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (USA)
Artists’ Film International. Ballroom Marfa, Texas (USA)
Artists’ Film International. Bonniers Konsthal, Stockolm (SWE)
Artists’ Film International. Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires (AR)
Artists’ Film International. NBK, Berlin (D)
Artists’ Film International. CAC, Vilnius (LT)
Artists’ Film International. Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (TR)
 UN-sdg Action Campaign. Köln (D)

39th Bergamo Film Meeting. Bergamo (I)
2019
Once Upon a Town - Story telling Festival in Maastricht (NL)
Ce Sony Les Îles Se Déplacent. Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brest (FR)

Asolo Art Film Festival. Asolo (I)

Now Instant Image Hall. Los Angeles (USA)
Cinema Akil. Dubai (UAE)
 Open Studios 2019 - Van Eyck Academie. Maastricht (NL)

Sjón International Anthropological Film Festival. Copenhagen (DK)
Antropofest. Prague (CZ)

Work Body Leisure - Het Nieuwe Instituut. Rotterdam (NL)
2018
36th Torino Film Festival - Official Competition. Turin (I)
Dutch Representation at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (I)

XXVII International Festival of Ethnological Film. Belgrade (SRB)

XIII Festival de Películas Natias. Arica (CL)

Etnovideografica 2018. Zamora (E)
WOMEX 2018. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (E)

Itinerant Movies #4. Rotterdam (NL)

That’s it - MAMbo. Bolonia (I)

2017
35th Torino Film Festival - Official Competition. Turin (I)

Direct Action. The Cinefamily. Los Angeles (USA)

TODAYS Festival. Il Piccolo Cinema. Turin (I)

2016
16ma Quadriennale d’Arte. Palazzo delle Esposizioni. Rome (I)

2015
33rd Torino Film Festival - Official Competition. Turin (I)

ROMABERLIN. Galerie Patrick Ebensperger. Berlin (D)
Glitch - OCAT Shanghai (PRC)

2014
Glitch. PAC Padiglione d‘Arte Contemporanea. Milan (I)

2013
Avanca Film Festival - Cine Club de Avanca (PT)

The 338 Hour Cineclub. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Turin (I)

Video Dumbo. Eyebeam Art + Technology Center. New York (USA)

Berlin Punk Film Festival. Kino Moviemento. Berlin (D)

2012
Re-generation. MACRO Museum. Rome (I)

Cinéma Expérimental Italien. ÉESI La Fémis. Paris (FR)

RIPB. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin (D)

New York Photo Festival 2012. New York City (USA)
Les Rencontres Internationales. Beirut Art Center. Beirut (LB)
2011
RIPBM Gaîté Lyrique | Centra Pompidou. Paris (FR)

Double Identity. Macy Gallery. Columbia University. New York City (USA)

The Gentlemen of Verona - Palazzo Forti. Verona (I)

Prague Biennale. Prague (CZ)
2010
As the Academy Turns. Talk Manifesta 8. Murcia (E)

La Juste Distance. Espace Cinko. Paris (FR)

Sindrome Italiana. Magasin CNAC. Grenoble (FR)

BYTS. AKV St. Joost. Den Bosch (NL)

21 Artisti per il XXI Secolo. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Turin (I)

Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture. Istanbul (TR)

2009
Vom Labor zum Projekt. Neues Museum. Weimar (D)

Far, from where we came. Aaran Gallery. Teheran (IR)
2008
92 Collettiva Giovani Artisti. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venice (I)
TRA-BETWEEN Venezia e Istanbul. Jarach Gallery. Venice (I)
IUAV at MAXXI. MAXXI Museum. Rome (I)
2007
91 Collettiva Giovani Artisti. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa. Venice (I)

LECTURES, TEACHING and PUBLICATIONS

2020-present Teaching ‘Video Installation’ Visual Arts BA. NABA. Milan (I)
2025 Book Editor/Author ‘A War Play’ Humboldt Books (I)
2023 Lecture ‘What do we talk about’ European Parliament. Rome (I), Strasbourg (F)
2022 Book Contributor ‘A Season in Slemani’ Humboldt Books (I)
Book Editor/Author ‘Not Quite Nearly Fine’ Arbor Editions (I)
Workshop Teaching. MA in Visual Arts. IUAV - Venice (I)
2021 Book Editor/Author ‘What Has Left since we Left’ Onomatopee (NL)
2020 Book Contributor ‘New Fiction’ Bruno Publishing, Venice (I) / Motto Berlin (D)
Book Contributor ‘Les œuvres de la voix’ Université Paris 1 Sorbonne. Paris (FR)
Lecture ‘Something or Other’ Design School at LCC. London (UK)
2019 Workshop Teaching. Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona. Verona (I)
Workshop Teaching. MA in Visual Arts. IUAV Venice (I)
2018 Lecture ‘Situated Practices’ Onomatopee. Eindhoven (NL)
Lecture ‘Istituto Italiano di Cultura’ Amsterdam (NL)
Organizer ‘Shore Leaves Symposium’ Zeemanskerk. Rotterdam (NL)
2017 Lecture ‘Cecilia Pennacini Visual Anthropology Class’ University of Turin (I)
Book Contributor to Visual Ethnography Journal (I)
2013 Lecture ‘Avanca Cinema Film Festival’ Cine Club de Avanca (PT)
Lecture ‘The Counter Order of Things’ EARN Network, IUAV. Venice (I)
2012 Book Contributor ‘Shopping Hour Magazine’ London (UK)
Lecture ‘Cinéma Expérimental Italien’ ÉESI La Fémis. Paris (FR)
Book Contributor ‘Domus Magazine’ (I)
2011 Teaching Assistant 'Marta Kuzma’ MA in Visual Arts. IUAV Venice (I)
Lecture ‘Antoni Muntadas class’ M.I.T. Cambridge, Boston (USA)
Lecture ‘Irina Rozovsky Photography Class’ Art Institute of Boston (USA)
2010 Lecture ‘As the Academy Turns' EARN Network, Manifesta 8. Murcia (E)
Book Contributor ‘Videoinsight' Silvana Editoriale (I)
Book Contributor ‘Paesaggio - Artists writings on Landscape’ Blauer Hase (I)
Teaching Assistant ‘Antoni Muntadas’ MA in Visual Arts. IUAV Venice (I)