Umberto Baccolo

Born in Voghera in Italy 17 june 1987. Degree in Communication at Pavia University. Studied filmmaking at School Sentieri Selvaggi in Roma. Lives between Roma and Berlin. First short movie as director, screenwriter and actor is Chiesa e Stato vol.1 - Potere spirituale in 2013. Then he has been author of a very successful multimedia web project Umberto Baccolo's (n)INFOmaniac composed by three videos, 17 photos, 17 paintings from authors like Italian comic book star Akab and a soundtrack. He has directed and written two video clips, Transmutation, in which he's also actor together with Lilith Primavera and Saretta Rosa, for Analogue Sensation Modelling (german electronic duo composed by Konik Polny and Francesco Zappalà) and Volevo essere la luna nei campi for Oliviero Malaspina, starring Carlo Passamonti and Amodio Iezza, both in 2014 and with cinematography and editing by Gabrielle Fiore. He's also a performer: in 2013 he reads in Roma his novel La naissance de l'amour with electronic live music by Event99 Banned Records. Now he's working on a short movie written with Gino Roberti, Le sorelle K, and on his first feature film, Temporal Power, written, directed, produced and starring him.