Author – Shelter

Enrico Masi (1983) is an italian film-director, independent researcher and musician.

He developed his signature in visual language from a cross contamination between experimental film, visual anthropology and creative documentaries. Mixed digital formats, magnetic tape and film is a constant of his work, as is the employment of post-modern meta cinematographical structures. After working within the Department of Educational Sciences as a film director and researcher and having produced and directed numerous scientific videos, among which Khalid awarded in 2009 by CNR in Rome, he moved to London where he attended SOAS. In London he written and directed The Golden Temple – Olympic regeneration of East London, his debut feature documentary. The film premiered in Venice Film Festival in 2012 and then in 15 countries around the world (Reykjavik International Film Festival, Festival dei Popoli, Cinemateca Uruguaya, Honk Kong University, Urbanize!), both as a cinematic and academic work.

In 2014 the documentary Sinai – Un autre pas sur la terre premiered at Torino Film Festival and Cineteca di Bologna, as the first result (digital and 16mm) of a long visual and sociological research, started in 2003, in the territories of former Yugoslavia. In 2014 he moved to Berlin, supported by Alma Mater Studiorum and the Marco Polo scholarship at UDK, where he completed the Brazilian core of the trilogy composed of Lepanto – Ultimo Cangaceiro, Terra Sem Males and Historia do Futuro, presented at Mostra del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro and various cinémathèques in Germany, Italy, Portugal and Brazil. In 2016 he concluded a Phd project at University of Bologna, using film as a tool of research. Shelter – Farewell to Eden is the final chapter of a broad trilogy (2012 – 2019) where the ultimate mega event is related to the international humanitarian crisis and third landscape theory.