Marco Bolognesi is a transmedial artist and experimental film director working across photography, drawing, installation, and cinema. His practice engages with found footage, materialist cinema, and appropriation art, transforming discarded reels and photocopied frames through hand-coloring, scratches, and re-editing. The result is surreal visions where cinema and painting merge, memory is distorted, and dystopian worlds come to life.
Bolognesi’s core project, Sendai City, unfolds as a self-contained aesthetic and narrative system, articulated through films, drawings, collages, and installations conceived in constant dialogue with one another. Following The Truth on Sendai City (2024) — distributed on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and Google TV — Bolognesi has completed Blackflag (2025), already acquired by the international sales agent House of Films.
He has received international recognition including Best Short Film at the L.A. Sci-Fi & Horror Festival (Los Angeles, 2022), Best Experimental Film at the Canadian Cinematography Awards (Toronto, 2022), Best Short Film at Another Hole in the Head (San Francisco, 2021), and an Honorable Mention at the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival — VAEFF (New York, 2021).
Exhibitions include MACRO Rome, Kunst Meran, PAN Naples, Month of Photography Vienna, the Bienal del Fin del Mundo (Mar del Plata, Argentina & Valparaíso, Chile), and the International Biennial of Curitiba (Brazil). Works are held in public collections such as the Collezione Farnesina (Italy), the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Brazil), and the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi (Belgium).