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.
Picture (135mm – Kodak) by Stefano Croci
Filmography
Individual projects
2009 Khalid
Visioni Italiane – Cineteca di Bologna
Menzione speciale CNR come Documentario Scientifico
2012 In Calabria o del Futuro Perduto
Tirana International Film Festival
Festival di Paesologia di Aliano
2012 The Golden Temple: Olympic Regeneration of East London
Mostra del Cinema di Venezia
Reykjavik International Film Festival
Festival dei Popoli
Stories from the Anthropocene – Stockholm
Cinemateca Uruguaya
Humboldt University – Berlin
2016 Lepanto – Último Cangaceiro
Cineteca Nazionale di Roma
Fuori Norma di Adriano Aprà
Polytechnic University of Turin
Cineteca di Bologna
Festival del Cinema Latino Americano di Trieste
2016 Historia do Futuro
Cineteca Nazionale di Roma
Cineteca di Bologna
National Museum of Cinema – Turin
2014 – 2018 Reiseland
Collaborations
2007 La Situation est Claire; con Jerome Walter Gueguen
2010 Giussano – Instant North Blues;
con Fausto Di Quarto, Stefano Migliore, Stefano Croci, Anna Romani
Palazzo Hercolani – Università di Bologna
2011 Ulisse Futura; con Stefano Croci
Genova Film Festival
2012 I Colonnelli di Roma; con Alberto Gemmi, Stefano Migliore
RIFF, Casa del Cinema di Roma
2012 Respect the Brutal; con Mike Wells
EAST END FILM FESTIVAL – London
2014 Muro Basso – se la decrescita è anche uno spazio;
con Stefano Migliore
Museo Nazionale del Cinema – Torino
2014 Sinai – un altro passo sulla terra; con Alberto Gemmi
Torino Film Festival
2016 Giappone, Roma, Bologna; con Francesco Lizzani
Scuderie del Quirinale – Roma