Video Essay Film Festival 2022, the winners

Tuesday July 5^th was the closing day of the third Video Essay Film Festival (VEFF), the event that celebrates one of the most innovative forms of critique of the audio-visual within the MAXXI’s 2022 Cinema programme.

A jury chaired by the director and screenwriter Enrico Vanzina with members Irene De Vico Fallani (MAXXI), Veronica Flora (Medfilm Festival), Alessandra Fontemaggi (Fondazione Cinema per Roma) and Massimo Sebastiani (Central Editor in Chief ANSA) awarded three prizes in the VEFF Competition section (Best Video Essay, Video Form Award, Video Content Award), and one in the VEFF Classic section (Best Video Essay).

Best Video Essay 
THE KENNEL – DIARY OF A DREAMER by Demetrio Giacomelli 

Best Video Essay for Form
THE ACTOR’S BODY: A SPATIALIZATION TOOL IN PAOLO SORRENTINO’S FILMS by Lucrezia Gandolfo

Best Video Essay for Content (ex aequo)
RIDING HORSES, RIDING BICYCLES. HORSES, BICYCLES AND SHIFTING HEROES by Edoardo Spallazzi, Federica Di Giampaolo

Best Video Essay for Content (ex aequo)
SCORSESE’S VOICE OVER by Lorenzo Mandile

Special Mention
THE EDDY: SHOOTING JAZZ IN THE WORK OF DAMIEN CHAZELLE by Beatrice Ambrosio

VIDEO ESSAY CLASSIC
For the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the VEFF decided to invite fans, scholars, film lovers and students of film schools and universities to try their hand at a video essay on the cinema of this great filmmaker.

Best Video Essay Classic
FIGURE by Gianluca Abbate and Angela Prudenzi