Informed by collage and noise music, his films and installations explore the connections between artistic creation, personal memory, and the perception of space, combining documentary and abstract imagery. His work has been shown in exhibition spaces and film institutions including e-flux Film, the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Cinematek — Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, the Beijing International Short Film Festival, and Prismatic Ground.
Alongside his artistic practice, his curatorial projects center on exhibitions featuring established and emerging moving image artists, with particular attention to long-term collaborative processes. It also extends to online initiatives: he is the founder of movimcat, a project dedicated to the dissemination of artists’ moving image, and has co-curated digital programs for Nomadica, LABA Brescia, The Wrong Biennale, Istanbul Experimental and Chute Film Coop. Since 2018, he has worked as a film programmer, curating and presenting several screenings of experimental and artists’ films, and is currently a member of the programming team of the Pesaro Film Festival in Italy.
His work has involved collaborations with a wide range of art centers, film festivals, and cultural institutions, including Bétonsalon, Courtisane, Fabrica research centre, Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Kino Climates, KORA, La Box – ENSA Bourges, La Rada, Media City Film Festival, and Optica. Stefano Miraglia is a member of the French association of art curators C|E|A.
His first book, Donda Retrieved: Inquiry Into a Disappearance (Adriatico Book Club, 2026), is one of the outcomes of his long-term activities towards the rediscovery and reappraisal of the work of writer and filmmaker Ellis Donda (1947–2023). He has also published interviews and essays in Débordements, Found Footage Magazine, Alt/Kino, and A Cuarta Parede.
Contact: studio@stefanomiraglia.eu
Instagram: @stemiraglia
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Group Exhibitions
2025 TUTTAUNANOTTE: An Italian Cinematic Showcase, e-flux Film, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi.
2021 Broadcasting Experiments for Smartphones, Collectif Jeune Cinéma, curated by Théo Deliyannis.
2021 Laboratory for Experimental and Artist Cinema, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (LABA), curated by Nomadica.
2020 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition — ANIMA: Hypnosis as a Ritual of Image Viewing, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, curated by Eva Lin and Yu Wei.
2020 Le dôme festival VI, curated by Baptiste and Constantin Jopeck.
2019 Le dôme festival V, curated by Baptiste and Constantin Jopeck.
2018 The body is the message, FILE Festival, curated by Flavia Fogliato.
2017 Shades of Today: Picking up the Pieces Post-Truth, Centrum Berlin, curated by Evanthia Afstralou, Kate Davis, Aurica Kastner, Mareike Spendel and Natalie Weiland.
Screenings
07/03/2026 Eccentrico Cineclub, Italy
11/09/2025 Emami Art Experimental Film Festival, India
25/04/2025 badnām film festival, India
14/12/2024 L'Âge d'Or Festival, Cinematek, Belgium
8/8/2024 Pantelleria Cinema, Cadavre Exquis, Italy
30/5/2024 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada
02/12/2023 Beijing International Short Film Festival, China
07/10/2023 Festival Henri Langlois, France
01/09/2023 GRAM Gaspésie, Canada
08/06/2023 Câmara Escura, Apertura Institute, Tab-Lab, Portugal
03/06/2023 Nuit Blanche, France
20/05/2023 Kabayitos Microcinema, The Clemente, USA
20/05/2023 Montreal Underground Film Festival, Canada
17/05/2023 Beijing International Short Film Festival, Goethe Institut, China
16/05/2023 Nux Vomica, France
03/05/2023 Beijing International Short Film Festival, UCCA Edge, China
01/04/2023 Cadavre Exquis, Italy
06/12/2022 Laceno d'oro, Italy
26/11/2022 Saigon Experimental Film Festival, Satellite Program, Vietnam
27/07/2022 La Karavane, L'Oeil d'Oodaaq, France
22/06/2022 Pan-Cinema Experimental - Curitiba Int’l Exp Film Festival, Brazil
21/06/2022 Dérives, France [online]
17/06/2022 Short Waves Festival, Poland
14/06/2022 Short Waves Festival, Poland
30/05/2022 6x6 Project, Germany [online]
01/04/2022 Cosmic Rays, USA
10/03/2022 Fabrica research centre, Italy
31/12/2021 Metriquadri, Italy [online]
09/12/2021 Strangelove Festival of Time-Based Media, UK
21/11/2021 Marseille Underground Film Festival, France
19/11/2021 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Turkey
19/10/2021 Athens International Film + Video Festival, USA
26/09/2021 Ibrida, Italy
09/07/2021 Non-event, USA [online]
03/07/2021 Festival Cinema Zero, Italy
16/06/2021 L'Oeil d'Oodaaq, France
28/05/2021 La Cinémathèque Temporaire du CJC, France
27/05/2021 Vienna Shorts, Austria
08/04/2021 Prismatic Ground, USA
22/01/2021 Fisura, Mexico
07/01/2021 Panorama, Visualcontainer, Italy [online]
09/12/2020 Alternative Film/Video, Serbia
06/12/2020 Laceno d’oro, Italy
07/11/2020 Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida, Ecuador
02/10/2020 Lucca Film Festival, Italy
26/09/2020 Le dôme festival, France
28/08/2020 Kino Otok, Slovenia
26/08/2020 Pesaro Film Festival, Italy
10/08/2020 Small File Media Festival, Canada [online]
13/07/2020 Hambre Fórum, Brazil [online]
08/07/2020 Dérives, France [online]
01/06/2020 Seek the Sun, France [online]
20/05/2020 Istanbul Experimental, Screening Room, Turkey [online]
30/04/2020 ICDOCS, USA [online]
21/03/2020 Suspended in a Time Between, USA [online]
20/02/2020 Les Inattendus, France
25/01/2020 Maratona di Visione, Italy [online]
12/12/2019 Les Inattendus, Fundraising Event, France
09/11/2019 Vidéo/Bars, France
15/11/2019 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Turkey
26/10/2019 Panorama Internacional Vol #1, Cine Tornado, Brazil
04/10/2019 Balkan Can Kino, Meme Gallery, Greece
26/09/2019 Mirada efímera, Museo MAR, Argentina
05/09/2019 Here Comes Everybody, USA [tv and online]
20/08/2019 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Germany [online]
27/07/2019 Eldem Sanat Alanı, Istanbul Experimental, Turkey
23/06/2019 ABOPevent #6b, USA
18/06/2019 Onda, nel cosmo dell’occhio, Pesaro Film Festival, Italy
14/06/2019 Samples, James Black Gallery, Canada
06/06/2019 Traverse Vidéo, Hors Les Murs, France
26/05/2019 Montreal Underground Film Festival
23/05/2019 Here Comes Everybody, USA [tv and online]
21/05/2019 Panorama Internacional Vol #1, O Sítio, Brazil
16/05/2019 L'Oeil d'Oodaaq, Galerie Grand Angle, France
09/05/2019 ABOPevent #6, USA
28/04/2019 Traverse Vidéo, Hors Les Murs, France
27/04/2019 Ibrida, Italy
26/04/2019 L'Oeil d'Oodaaq, France
17/04/2019 Lucca Film Festival
06/04/2019 Spectral Film Festival, USA
05/04/2019 Samples, Mexico
14/03/2019 Traverse Vidéo, Cinémathèque de Toulouse, France
07/03/2019 Here Comes Everybody, USA [tv and online]
05/03/2019 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France [online]
11/02/2019 Muestra Internacional de Cine Experimental, Ecuador
02/02/2019 RPM Fest, USA
22/01/2019 Here Comes Everybody, USA [tv and online]
12/12/2018 Panorama Internacional Vol #1, Pinacoteca Ruben Berta, Brazil
01/12/2018 Απαράμιλλον, Pugnant Film Series, Greece
21/11/2018 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Turkey
17/11/2018 Filmmaker Festival, Italy
02/11/2018 Nomadica, Italy
01/11/2018 Nomadica, Italy
25/10/2018 Here Comes Everybody, USA [tv and online]
19/10/2018 Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, USA
12/10/2018 Haverhill Film Festival, USA
11/10/2018 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France
17/09/2018 The Unseen Festival, USA
15/09/2018 Pugnant Film Series, Greece
10/08/2018 Eneagrama / Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental, Argentina
08/08/2018 Marfici, Argentina
04/08/2018 Strange Umbrellas #21, UK
03/08/2018 Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida, Ecuador
14/07/2018 Le dôme festival, France
25/05/2018 Fracto, Germany
08/05/2018 Montreal Underground Film Festival, Canada
12/02/2018 Les Inattendus, France
01/11/2017 Hambre Fórum, Brazil [online]
20/10/2017 Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, USA
15/10/2017 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France
12/10/2017 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France
10/10/2017 Retransmisión, Mexico
24/06/2017 Pesaro Film Festival, Italy
02/06/2017 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada
22/02/2017 Gonville & Caius College, UK
17/05/2015 IVAHM, Spain
21/03/2015 Parachute Light Zero, France
30/11/2014 Film Dialog, Germany
29/11/2014 MetersETERS, Russia
19/11/2014 Cairo Video Festival, Medrar, Egypt
28/09/2014 Ars Independent, Poland
15/09/2014 NE Fest 2: Points of view, Bulgaria
31/07/2014 Syros International Film Festival, Greece
23/11/2013 Up-and-coming Film Festival, Germany
18/10/2013 Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival, USA
23/09/2013 Ars Independent, Poland
Awards, Grants, and Residencies
2025 La Box — ENSA Bourges, Curatorial Residency2024 Friuli Venezia Giulia — Studi e ricerche, Research Grant
2019 Acción Cultural Española AC/E — PICE, Mobility Grant
2018-2021 Le dôme festival — Les deux îles, Artist Residency
2017 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Jury Award
2014 Région Rhône-Alpes — Accueil Sup, Study Grant
Film Editing
2023 Grotta by Carlos Casas
2021 Screen Glare by Enrico Camporesi
Interviews
22/06/2025 An Interview with Jeannette Muñoz — with Cecilia Ermini, Chute Film Coop [also in the Pesaro Film Festival catalogue].
09/10/2024 Tatiana Mazú González — “A dark and noisy and grainy film” [also in French] — Débordements.
08/05/2024 Deborah Stratman: Object Lessons [also in French] — with Barnabé Sauvage, Débordements.
06/12/2023 Ben Rivers: Film Strata [also in French] — Débordements.
03/08/2022 Interview: Ben Russell — Alt/Kino.
25/06/2019 Malcolm Le Grice: promover unha nova cultura e infiltrarse nas institucións — A Cuarta Parede.
Essays
02/03/2026 Donda Retrieved: Inquiry Into a Disappearance — edited by Stefano Miraglia, Adriatico Book Club.
25/06/2025 Sea Change: On Watching a Fragment From Puchuncaví by Jeannette Muñoz — Chute Film Coop [online reissue].
09/08/2023 FIDMarseille, 2023 — Bon an, mal an — with Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage, Débordements.
20/07/2022 FIDMarseille, 2022 — Over Hill and Dale [also in French] — with Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage, Débordements.
18/09/2021 Sea Change: On Watching a Fragment from Puchuncaví by Jeannette Muñoz — Persistenze: Andrea Bordoli, Andrés Baron, Jeannette Muñoz, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Ben Rivers, edited by Jessica Macor & Yimei Zhang, La Rada [exhibition catalogue].
04/08/2021 FIDMarseille 2021 — Notre Musique — with Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage, Débordements.
13/04/2021 Fenestra Rotunda: A score of notes and memories following the viewing of Girardet & Müller’s Meteor — Found Footage Magazine, Issue 7.
05/03/2020 Il segno e il corpo: Ellis Donda — with Cecilia Ermini, SentieriSelvaggi21st, Issue 5.
13/09/2019 Lo sguardo ritrovato — with Cecilia Ermini, I Mille Occhi, XVIII: La macchina ammazzacattivi [festival catalogue].
04/06/2019 Movimcat: cinefilia e comisariar o dispoñible — A Cuarta Parede.
Polls
Stefano Miraglia has contributed year-end lists to numerous international film polls: Senses of Cinema (2019-2025), Desistfilm (2022), Cinesinfin (2021-2023), and Chute Film Coop (2024-2025).
Teaching
2024-2027 University of Paris 1 — Panthéon-Sorbonne, France: Pratiques Expérimentales (Atelier de création audiovisuelle), École des Arts de la Sorbonne, Centre Saint-Charles.
2023-2027 University of Paris 1 — Panthéon-Sorbonne, France: Cinéma Exposé, École des Arts de la Sorbonne, Centre Saint-Charles.
2023-2024 University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland: MFA Thesis Project Supervisor.
2022-2023 University of Paris 3 —Sorbonne Nouvelle, France: Culture numérique, UFR LLCSE, Master Industries Culturelles France-Italie.
Lectures, Talks, Workshops
25/06/2026 Cité internationale des arts, France: Kunhavigi by CEA - Association Française des commissaires d'exposition, Portfolio review.
09/03/2026 Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy: Donda Retrieved —Incontro con il curatore Stefano Miraglia, Lecture.
06/03/2026 Mediateca Cinemazero, Italy: Prima e dopo l’archivio, Screening and talk.
20-21/05/2025 ENSA Bourges, France: Manuel d’exposition, Workshop.
08/04/2025 Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy: Curating and Moving Images: from Movimcat to the Ellis Donda Project, Lecture.
05-06/02/2025 ENSA Bourges, France: Manuel d’exposition, Seminar.
31/01/2024 Centre Pompidou, France: Une Histoire du Cinéma, Laboratoire d'Histoire Permanente, Seminar.
29/05/2023 Nieuwe Vide, Netherlands: Artists' Films — From Idea to Project, Pitching workshop.
16/11/2022 Loop Barcelona, Spain: Digital Collections, Loop Studies / Pro Meetings.
08-09/06/2022 RN13BIS — art contemporain en Normandie, France: Présences — Rencontres professionnelles, Portfolio review.
10/03/2022 Fabrica research centre, Italy: Carlos Casas Sound Workshop, Screening and talk.
18/11/2021 Loop Barcelona, Spain: Expectations, Disappointments, Uprisings…, Loop Studies / Pro Meetings.
18/11/2021 Loop Barcelona, Spain: Curating at Stake, Loop Studies / Pro Meetings.
17/11/2021 Loop Barcelona, Spain: Take or Leave It, Loop Studies / Pro Meetings.
19/02/2020 Woche der Kritik, Germany: Intruders at the Window, Cinema Plural Conference, Live chat-performance.
01/11/2019 Nomadica, Italy: Three Ways of Talking Cinema #1, Roundtable.
18/06/2019 Pesaro Film Festival, Italy: A cosa serve il cinema?, Roundtable.
14/07/2019 Le dôme festival, France: Un an après / Materiali, Lecture.
01/06/2019 (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Spain: Crítica y Programación Online, Seminar.
15/03/2019 Traverse Vidéo, France: Cinéma ABC, Workshop.
04/11/2018 Nomadica, Italy: Breakfast with Movimcat, Roundtable.
22/02/2017 Gonville & Caius College, United Kingdom: Images itinérantes. An Evening of Short Films, Screening and talk.
12/2014 Université Lyon 2, France: Heimat d'Edgar Reitz : contre la standardisation de la mémoire, LARHRA, UCBN, Laboratoire Junior Imagination et Histoire, ENS de Lyon, Journée d'études L'Histoire à l'épreuve de la fiction.
04-2014 ENS de Lyon, France: Deux et deux fois dans l’œuvre de Jean-Luc Godard, Séminaire Deux fois, Département des arts.
In Conversation / Q&As
16/20/06/2026 Pesaro Film Festival, Italy: Giorgiomaria Cornelio, Andrea Balietti, Nicolas Carrasco, Liam Baldini Friedl vom Gröller.
18-20/06/2025 Pesaro Film Festival, Italy: Jeannette Muñoz, Assia Piqueras.
17-19/06/2024 Pesaro Film Festival, Italy: Ross Meckfessel, Valentina Alvarado Matos, Pesaro Film Festival.
04/06/2023 Festival de l'Histoire de l'Art, France: Annik Leroy, Julie Morel.
22/11/2022 Braquage, France: Josh Weissbach.
14-15/10/2022 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France: Gautam Valluri, Stéphanie Lagarde, Maxime Hot, Noé Grenier, Roger Deutsch, Anna Marziano, William Hong-xiao Wei, a. laurel lawrence.
16/12/2021 Kora — Contemporary Arts Center, Italy: Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.
10/12/2021 Bétonsalon — Centre d'art et de recherche, France: Annik Leroy, Julie Morel, Courtisane festival in Paris.
29/10/2021 Nomadica, Italy: Carlo Galbiati, Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.
15/10/2021 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France: Bruno Delgado Ramo, Jules Bourbon, Marylène Negro.
03/06/2021 OPTICA — Centre d'art contemporain, Canada: A conversation with Charlotte Clermont, Online.
19/05/2021 Nomadica, Italy: A conversation with Tinne Zenner, Nomadica at LABA, Online.
16-18/10/2020 Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France: Patrick Bokanowski, Yuyan Wang, Gautam Valluri, Nafiseh Moshashaeh, Luis Ricardo Garcia Lara.
22/09/2020 I Mille Occhi, Italy: Ellis Donda, Luciana Sacchetti.
05/03/2020 La Clef Revival, France: Nour Ouayda.
04/12/2019 Institut Français — Centre Saint-Louis, Italy: Clio Simon, Noé Grenier.
31/10 - 03/11/2019 Nomadica, Italy: Alessandra Beltrame, Nicole Guerzoni, Roger Deutsch.
14/09/2019 I Mille Occhi, Italy: Ellis Donda, Rossella Or.
01/11/2018 Nomadica, Italy: Elsa Brès.
Education
2020 UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, Doclisboa Filmmaking Seminar
2014-2015 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Master 2 Recherche, Études cinématographiques
2014-2015 Institut d’Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne / Rhône-Alpes, ENS de Lyon, Masterclass Initiation au commissariat d’exposition d’art contemporain
2013-2014 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Master 2 Recherche, Études cinématographiques
2009-2013 Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, DAMS, Bachelor's degree, Cinema, television and new medias