Locarno Spring Academy 2022

Michelangelo Frammartino

Michelangelo Frammartino was born in 1968 in Milan, to parents originally from the small town of Caulonia, in Calabria. He studied architecture at the Milan Polytechnic and later film at Milan’s Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti. He began working in the field of video art, making video installations. In 2003 he made his debut full-length feature, The Gift, set in his parents’ birthplace and presented at Locarno and Rotterdam. In 2010 he wrote and directed Le quattro volte, presented in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, and in 2013 made the cinematic installation Trees for the opening of MOMA’s new PS1 center in New York. In 2021 he presented his third full-length feature, The Hole, with cinematography by Renato Berta, in competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize.