MONTAGE series

ABOUT THE ARTIST

CÉSAR MENEGHETTI is a Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist based in Rome. His work is centred on social issues, migration and the concept of borders, political, social and individual edges, the interaction with people and media between the North and South hemisphere. He uses the cinema medium as well as film, video, photography, painting and installation in art to give images a new approach to the world. Through the mix of various technical supports he uses these electronic/digital instruments to extract and isolate frames of reality and re-elaborate them in a new context. He has shown his art work in more than 39 countries around the world and has made about 60 films and videos including 2 feature films, 4 documentaries, 53 short films and experimental videos. In the last 23 years he had received 59 awards, prizes and scholarships for his work.