ANNA CHIARETTA LAVATELLI, video artist

ANNA CHIARETTA LAVATELLI is an artist-filmmaker interested in visibility, agency and identity. Her artistic research seeks to unravel systems of storytelling and established modes of seeing in order to destabilize the feminine image and our sense of the world. Beyond rethinking the content of moving image production, she also collaborates with creative people across professions on non-hierarchically produced creative projects.

She has worked with moving image across media for the past 20 years, from small-gauge experimental film to cinematic digital productions. Over the past eight years, she has also produced dozens of short documentary films about artists and musicians for museums and non-profits around the world.

She has participated in artists’ residency programs over the years including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Media Studies from the University at Buffalo where she studied with experimental musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California San Diego.