FILMS
Coming soon: BITTERSWEET- A queer web series.
Bittersweet explores relevant themes like gender identity and expression, queer love and mental health (issues). Visually the series is a beautifully composed and aesthetic experience to watch. The combination of beautiful imagery, expressively coloured lights, and music usage makes the confronting storylines watchable.
The pilot of
Bittersweet is co-funded by NPO 3LAB, and was released in November 2022.
Directed by Lara Sluijter
Edited by Francesca Giunta
Unheard - teaser/proof-of-concept
A proof-of-concept/teaser video for graduation project Unheard by Francesca Giunta, Audiovisual design /Honours programme Willem de Kooning Academie.
Directed by Francesca Giunta,
Written by Francesca Giunta and Liliana Rubbino
Edit: Sid Zeno Duit
Camera: Julia Gat
Assistant director: Laila Fantozzi
Sound: Giovanni Giunta and Francesca Giunta
Music: Weronika Ast
Gaffer: Bas de Haas and Jorick Buurstra
Runner on set: Giuseppe Giuffrida
RASL Minor, Re-imagining tomorrow though Arts and Sciences, 2020
Mini documentary
A short and creative video documentation of the Rasl minor course offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam in collaboration with Willem de Kooning Academy and Codarts, from the perspective of the students working in a new transdisciplinary context.
Trailer Codarts Concerts: A celebration of 250 years of Beethoven, 2020
A short teaser for one of the online concerts of Codarts held during the first lockdown in the Netherlands to celebrate 250 years of Beethoven. Realized ad a "puzzle" by editing the footage personally shot by the students involved in the project playing and sharing their emotion in connection with the music.
Trailer Ritratto di famiglia (family portrait) 2019
A peek on a family journey in search of the origins of the need for artistic expression.
Perfectly Equal, 2019
A short creative documentary about the life and achievements of Suze Groeneweg, the first woman in the Dutch Parliament, realized only by using found footage from the city archive of Rotterdam (Stadsarchief Rotterdam).
A film by Yorben den Hartog, Jasmin Madsen and Francesca Giunta
Music by Nadia Marak
Powidoki, afterimage, 2019
A short video documentation of Magdalena Wierzbicka's graduation project for her Master degree in Interior Architecture at Piet Zwart institute, Rotterdam.
The Hunting Zoetrope, 2018
IFFR 2019 official chosen teaser for the short film marathon.
A little tribute to the history of moving images, a handmade zoetrope spinning into the future with an endless, instinctive and hungry chase for something ever new.
I'm here wherever you need it, 2018
A short film essay about our relationship with AI technology and the possible alienated future we are gong towards to where the human interaction is gonna be entirely replaced by an artificial one.
A film by Lara Sluyter, Laila Fantozzi and Francesca Giunta
Humanity Mirror, 2018
A project realized for Rotterdam Theater, shown in the foyer on nine different screens (video wall).
A reflection upon the audience itself, giving an insights of the play "Headroom".
My Dark Side, 2017
A self portrait of my fears and paranoia
Mixed thecniques: live action video + hand sketched animation (frame by frame).
Teaser, 2017
A 30 second short teaser ideated for the podcast Swords Butterflies & Chewing-gums.
Unstrange_me, 2018
A social project ideated by me and the graphic designer Augustina Lavickaite, trying to understand what takes to be a real Rotterdamer and how the locals perceive the "strangers" living in their country.
The Stash Raiders and the tails of the stars (2016), 2018
A short documentary about the Stash Raiders tour through Italy in May-June 2016 as viewed from the inside of the band.
Super 8 day, 2016
A collaboration between Unza! and the students of Academy of Brera (Fine Arts Academy of Milan). The original film (super8 format) has been shooted by all the student of the couse of editing techniques (held by E. Annese), and then elaborated in this video by me.
Titles made using stop motion technique.
The sound of paper (the paper boat), 2016
A journey through the diverse sound of paper.
All the visuals and sounds had been realized using different type of paper.
Stop motion technique.