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Alessia Lupo Cecchet

About the Artist

Alessia Cecchet is a maker of moving images, interdisciplinary artist, and writer. Originally from Italy, her practice is situated at the intersection of studio and media arts. Grounded in historical and archival research, her work is invested in human and non-human stories of displacement, loss, and suffering. Alessia’s work has been exhibited internationally at several film festivals and art venues, including Uppsala Short Film Festival (Uppsala, Sweden), Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, UT), Nashville Film Festival (Nashville, TN), Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK), Seattle Film Festival (Seattle, WA), Cork Film Festival (Cork, Ireland), Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH), Columbus Film and Animation Festival (Columbus, OH), and Torino Film Festival (Torino, Italy). Her films have won several awards, such as the Honorable Mention at Festival de Cine Silente (Puebla, Mexico) and the Best Fiction at the High Coast Film Festival (Sweden).