Sara TIRELLI is an Italian artist and filmmaker based in Venice. She received her MFA in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna in 2003 and in the same year, she obtained her Filmmaker Diploma at Scuola Civica di Cinema e Nuovi Media at Politecnico in Milan.

Her works are focused on technology, the politics of media, and immersivity and explore how the “cinematic experience” shapes and redefines the concept of Reality and they have been featured in several exhibitions such as Q16. Quadriennale d’Arte, Sonje Art Centre of Seoul and Gothenburg Film Festival amongst others. In 2017, she won third prize of the Deutsche Bank Video Award and in the same year she was selected as Artist in Production in Residency in Sweden, where she developed her first VR artwork Medusa. She has held various panels about her research within immersive storytelling such as Bodies, Movement and AI in VR at Goldsmiths University of London, Future Narrative with Laurie Anderson at Film Festival Gothenburg. In 2019, she co-founded the VR Pavilion, an independent curatorial project launched in conjunction with the 58th Venice Art Biennale.

Sara Tirelli is currently the Artistic Director of CSC Immersive Arts, a new department of the National Film School of Italy dedicated to XR media.

Filmography

(selection, VR) Medusa (2017), The Invisible Hand (2021), Cilia (2021), Fathoming (in development)