Vit à : Paris , France
Stefano Miraglia (Málaga, 1988) is an Italian-Spanish artist, curator and writer based in Paris. His activities focus on artists’ film and video. Since 2018 he has curated and presented several programs of experimental and artists’ films. Stefano is the founder and principal curator of Movimcat, an online project for the dissemination of artist’s cinema. Since 2019 he has been working on the rediscovery and reappraisal of the work of Ellis Donda.
His films have been presented internationally in exhibition spaces such as the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (Taipei), Fabrica research center (Treviso), Centrum (Berlin) and in numerous film festivals such as Beijing International Short Film Festival, Prismatic Ground, ICDOCS, Vienna Shorts and Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris – where his film Anoche received an award in 2017. His work is distributed by Collectif Jeune Cinéma.
Stefano Miraglia works/has worked with Bétonsalon – centre d’art et de recherche, Braquage, Cineclube de Compostela, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Courtisane, Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, Espace Le Carré, Fabrica research centre, Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Hambre, I Mille Occhi, Istanbul Experimental, Kino Climates, KORA – Contemporary Arts Center, La Rada – Spazio per l’Arte contemporanea, Le Dôme Festival, Les Inattendus, L’hybride, Nomadica, Optica – Centre d’art contemporain, Reading Bloom, RN13BIS — art contemporain en Normandie, Roger Deutsch, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Sorbonne Nouvelle, The Wrong Biennale, Toc, Up-and-Coming International Film Festival.
His texts have been published in A Cuarta Parede, Alt/Kino, Débordements, Found Footage Magazine and Senses of Cinema.
EXHIBITIONS
Carlos Casas / Fieldworks
La Rada (Switzerland)
Curated by Stefano Miraglia and Jessica Macor
05//08/2023 – 10/09/2023
Format à l’italienne 10. Matériaux résistants, entre histoire et utopies
Espace Le Carré (France)
Works by Clio Simon, Daniela Lorini, Noé Grenier, Corinna Gosmaro
12/09/2019 – 27/10/2019
Movimcat presents Ethel Stein by Gautam Valluri
Le dôme festival (France)
13-14/07/2019
(*preview only)
Le dôme festival (France)
Works by Dan Browne, Nick Collins, Brian L. Frye, Aurélie Percevault and Antoine Ledroit, Leandro Varela, Pierre Voland
14-15/07/2018
Zahid Jiwa : Six dérives
Le dôme festival (France)
14-15/07/2018
Lightness / Une légère tension
Galerie La Librairie @ ENS de Lyon (France)
In partnership with Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
Works by Ann Veronica Janssens, Jean-Marie Krauth, Ange Leccia, Giulio Paolini, Richard Serra. Co-curated with Olga Bychkova, Marion Dupont, Johara Maury, Madeleine Savart
15/05/2014 – 18/07/2014
ONLINE PROJECTS
Collage
Nomadica at LABA
Works by Mary Helena Clark, Ross Meckfessel, Charlotte Clermont
05/05/2021
Laboratorio per il cinema d’artista
Nomadica at LABA
21/04/2021
To Love and Repel (Interiors/Exteriors)
Istanbul Experimental
Works by Emily Chao, Roger Deutsch, Noé Grenier, Lyra Hill, Margaret Rorison, Gautam Valluri
29/06/2020 – 04/07/2020
Three silent pieces
Hambre
Works by Warshadfilm (Tiziano Doria and Samira Guadagnuolo), Leandro Varela, Ignazio Fabio Mazzola
22/06/2020 – 06/07/2020
Speak Volumes
The Wrong Biennale
Works by Elsa Brès, Blanca Regina and Pierre Bouvier Patron, Mauricio Freyre, Samira Guadagnuolo and Tiziano Doria, Pierre Lefrançois, Ignazio Fabio Mazzola, Luján Montes, Tinne Zenner
01/11/2019
FILM SCREENINGS
An animal’s carefully guarded space – Le cinéma de Josh Weissbach
Braquage (France). Co-curated with Alma-Lïa Masson-Lacroix.
22/11/2022
Kora Film Series: Ignazio Fabio Mazzola
Kora – Contemporary Arts Center (Italy)
16/12/2021
Le parole della notte
Nomadica (Italy)
Works by Elisa Celda, Félix Fattal, Carlo Galbiati, Ignazio Fabio Mazzola, Nour Ouayda
29/10/2021
Hopefully this is just the beginning!
Toc (France)
Works by Sabine Gruffat and Marina Fomenko
29/08/2020
You are now facing a crack in a stone
L’Hybride (France)
Works by Diana Vidrascu, Shambhavi Kaul, Salomé Lamas, Nour Ouayda
13/03/2020
Music Sounds Better With You
Nomadica (Italy)
Works by Alessandra Beltrame, Charlotte Clermont, Vincent Guilbert, Luján Montes, Lee Ranaldo, Georges Rey, Lee Anne Schmitt
31/10/2019
Out of the Past: Ellis Donda
I Mille Occhi (Italy)
Co-curated with Cecilia Ermini
14-15/09/2019
O catálogo e as súas extensiones
Cineclube de Compostela (Spain)
Works by Mary Helena Clark, Leandro Varela, Nick Collins, Gautam Valluri, Nazlı Dinçel, Clio Simon, Zahid Jiwa, Chiara Caterina and Nicola Di Croce
29/05/2019
Nomadica Odeporica Plastica
Nomadica (Italy)
Works by Pauline Rigal, Julio Fermepin, Pierre Voland, Elsa Brès, Mauricio Freyre, Tinne Zenner, Leandro Varela
01/11/2018
FILM FESTIVALS
2020-22
Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris
Member of the selection committee for the International Competition.
2022
Les Inattendus
Member of the selection committee.
PUBLICATIONS
2023
FIDMarseille, 2023. Bon an, mal an, co-authored with Occitane Lacurie and Barnabé Sauvage – Débordements, Issue 21.
2022
Interview: Ben Russell – Alt/Kino, 03/08/2022.
FIDMarseille, 2022. Par monts et par vaux, co-authored with Occitane Lacurie and Barnabé Sauvage – Débordements, Issue 13.
2021
Sea change. On watching a fragment from Puchuncaví by Jeannette Muñoz – Persistenze: Andrea Bordoli, Andrés Baron, Jeannette Muñoz, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Ben Rivers, curated by Jessica Macor and Yimei Zhang, La rada – Spazio per l’Arte contemporanea (catalogue).
FIDMarseille 2021: Notre Musique, co-authored with Occitane Lacurie and Barnabé Sauvage – Débordements, Issue 4.
Fenestra Rotunda: A score of notes and memories following the viewing of Girardet and Müller’s Meteor – Found Footage Magazine, Issue 7.
2020
Il segno e il corpo: Ellis Donda, co-authored with Cecilia Ermini – Sentieri Selvaggi, Issue 5.
2019
Lo sguardo ritrovato, co-authored with Cecilia Ermini – I Mille Occhi, XVIII: La macchina ammazzacattivi (catalogue).
Malcolm Le Grice: promover unha nova cultura e infiltrarse nas institucións – A Cuarta Parede, Issue 40.
Movimcat: cinefilia e comisariar o dispoñible – A Cuarta Parede, Issue 40.
SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, ROUNDTABLES, TALKS AND MORE
Portfolio reviews: Présences – Rencontres professionnelles, RN13BIS — art contemporain en Normandie (France), 08-09/06/2022
Screening and talk: Carlos Casas Sound Workshop, Fabrica research centre (Italy), 10/03/2022
Loop Studies / Pro Meetings: Expectations, disappointments, uprisings…, Loop Barcelona (Spain), 18/11/2021
Loop Studies / Pro Meetings: Curating at stake, Loop Barcelona (Spain), 18/11/2021
Loop Studies / Pro Meetings: Take or leave it, Loop Barcelona (Spain), 17/11/2021
Live chat-performance: Intruders at the Window, Cinema plural conference, Woche der Kritik (Germany), 19/02/2020
Round table (moderator): Three ways of talking Cinema #1, Nomadica (Italy), 01/11/2019
Round table: A cosa serve il cinema?, 55a Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro (Italy), 18/06/2019
Seminar: Un an après / Materiali, Le dôme festival (France), 14/07/2019
Seminar: Crítica y Programación Online, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico (Spain), 01/06/2019
Workshop: Cinéma ABC, Traverse Vidéo (France), 15/03/2019
Round table: Breakfast with MOVIMCAT, Nomadica (Italy), 04/11/2018
Screening and talk: Images itinérantes. An evening of short films, Gonville & Caius College (United Kingdom), 22/02/2017
IN CONVERSATION
A conversation with Charlotte Clermont, OPTICA, centre d’art contemporain (Online), 03/06/2021
A conversation with Tinne Zenner, Nomadica at LABA (Online), 19/05/2021
Q&As
Annik Leroy and Julie Morel, Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art (France), 04/06/2023
Josh Weissbach, Braquage / Espace en cours (France), 22/11/2022
Gautam Valluri, Stéphanie Lagarde, Maxime Hot, Noé Grenier, Roger Deutsch, Anna Marziano, William Hong-xiao Wei, a. laurel lawrence, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Cinéma Le Grand Action (France), 14-15/10/2022
Ignazio Fabio Mazzola, Kora – Contemporary Arts Center (Italy), 16/12/2021
Annik Leroy, Courtisane festival in Paris, Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche (France), 10/12/2021
Carlo Galbiati, Ignazio Fabio Mazzola, Nomadica (Italy), 29/10/2021
Bruno Delgado Ramo, Jules Bourbon, Marylène Negro, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Cinéma Le Grand Action (France), 15/10/2021
Patrick Bokanowski, Yuyan Wang, Gautam Valluri, Nafiseh Moshashaeh, Luis Ricardo Garcia Lara, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Cinéma Le Grand Action (France), 16-18/10/2020
Ellis Donda, Luciana Sacchetti, I Mille Occhi (Italy), 22/09/2020
Nour Ouayda, La Clef Revival (France), 05/03/2020
Clio Simon, Noé Grenier, Institut Français – Centre Saint-Louis (Italy), 04/12/2019
Alessandra Beltrame, Nicole Guerzoni, Roger Deutsch, Nomadica (Italy), 31/10 – 03/11/2019
Ellis Donda, Rossella Or, I Mille Occhi (Italy), 14/09/2019
Elsa Brès, Nomadica (Italy), 01/11/2018
JURY DUTY
International jury member, Up-and-Coming International Film Festival, Hannover, DE, 2015
GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2020
Artist-in-Residence, Le Dôme Festival, Montbazon, FR
2019
Artist/Curator-in-Residence, Le Dôme Festival, Montbazon, FR
Grant recipient, Acción Cultural Española AC/E, ES
2018
Artist/Curator-in-Residence, Le Dôme Festival, Montbazon, FR
2017
Award, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, FR
EDUCATION
2020
Doclisboa Filmmaking Seminar by UnionDocs.
2014-15
Institut d’Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, ENS Lyon, Masterclass in Contemporary Art Curating.
2014-15
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Master 2 Recherche (Master’s degree) in Film Studies.
2013-14
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Master 1 (Master’s degree) in Film Studies.
2009-13
DAMS Roma Tre, Bachelor’s degree in Cinema, Television and Media studies.