Stefano Miraglia

Double Around the Interlude (2024)

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic architecture. Music as a tool, transcriptions of YouTube tutorials as poetry, percussion exercises as descriptions ...

Grotta (2023)

In 1907 Herman Hesse spent a few days mediating and fasting in a cave near Monte Verità. During these days he collected the visions and insights that went on to be very influential in his thinking and shaped some of the most important works of his literar ...

I'll See You Again (2022)

A group of artists settle in a swamp on the banks of the Indre River. Meanwhile, a voice describes a utopian world. ...

2021-1985 (2021)

Confidential report on designer Dino Gavina's showroom created by Carlo Scarpa between 1961 and 1963. Restoration details and stills from a 1985 film by Ellis Donda. ...

J'écoute l'univers (2021)

In the vain hope of breaking a smartphone with a film, I present to you a series of truthful images and sounds. City lights set out to communicate something, details of sixties paperback books meet the title of a French science fiction novel, and the botto ...

Collage (2021)

Considerations on collage as a cognitive act in artists' cinema. A pedagogical film adrift: 35mm photographs and other materials collected over the last fifteen years by artist Stefano Miraglia meet a text written by Baptiste Jopeck and the voice of Margau ...

Screen Glare (2021)

A text, some images, and an unstable arrangement of durations to which one can devote a fluctuating form of attention. ...

Perenne (2020)

Early/alternate edit of what became the final sequence of the film I'll See You Again. ...

Thick Air (2020)

An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to understand and to find that sound. A tale of sleepless nights and loud music, a noise-injected collage composed o ...

Ramusiana (2017)

A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to geographer and civil servant of the Republic of Venice Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557). ...

Rodez (2017)

An exploration of Rodez Cathedral and its stained glass windows: praying figures and scientific imagery. A study on color, repetition and flickering consisting of 292 photographs. ...

Anoche (2017)

Three memories that become one. An attempt to merge heterogeneous materials: a film sequence shot in Rome, a photo from the 1930s, a noisy soundtrack. Fragmented lines, exploding bass frequencies and flickering. ...

Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo (2016)

"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own irretrievable self of some 34 years ago is now also part of the subject I first saw the 'actual' 'Mona Lisa' when I w ...

Claire (2016)

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created in 2012 by French-Spanish researcher, publisher and artist Claire Latxague. While collecting drawings, written documents and other printed materials for a ...

DIVISOR / VILLEURBANNE (2014)

Documentation of Lygia Pape's 1968 performance Divisor - reactivated in the city of Villeurbanne (France) in October 2014. Commissioned by Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes. ...

Katokino (2014)

Brutalism (2014)

Black giants break classical architecture and rebuild them into Brutalistic structure. ...

memoria e imaginación (2013)

Fragments pour un film imaginaire (2023)

A variation on paroptic vision (the ability to see with the skin, without the aid of the eyes), telepathy, colour theory and the theremin. The various sequences introduce the hypothesis of an imaginary cinema. The film is presented as a series of rushes, s ...