ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup

ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is an italian collective founded in 2000 and based in Roncofreddo, Emilia-Romagna. Led by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi (producers, authors and directors), Zapruder relies upon a stable working team formed by co-founder Monaldo Moretti (director of photography) and trusted sound-makers and sound-engineers. The group experiments in the film field on the border between figurative, performing and cinematographic arts, headed towards an immersive and polycentric experience. Through a process that never stops questioning language and medium, underlying their practice, they conceived several devices and ways of fruition, as in the case of ‘Chamber Cinema’: video-installation projects and multimedia works where cinema and object merge, in reference to the technique of stereoscopic film -or the illusion of three dimensions- as well as to expanded cinema. Exploration in 3D introduces the element of ‘time sculpture’, in which the vision delivers itself as an enigma, involving the viewer. Since 2012 they develop installations, environments, video sculptures, filmic happenings and set-performances that incorporate spectatorship into the idea of a living image. The films and works of the group have been presented in international festivals and art centers (including Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Berlinale, Rotterdam film Festival, Festival del Cinema di Roma, Milano Film Festival, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Biennale de l’image en mouvement Ginevra, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Centre Pompidou Paris, Live Arts Week Bologna, Transmediale Berlin, Netmage Bologna, Santarcangelo Festival, Art Fall Ferrara, PAC Milan) with prestigious awards. Zapruder collaborated with italian theatre companies such as Fanny & Alexander, Romeo Castellucci/Societas Raffaello Sanzio and Motus.