Emerson Culurgioni

Emerson Culurgioni was born and raised in Munich. He studied Art and Design at the Free University of Bolzano and at the University of the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig (HGB), where he graduated in 2014 with Clemens von Wedemeyer. The critical and interdisciplinary engagement with social issues is at the core of his artistic practice. He is co-founder of the artist* collective Filmische Initiative Leipzig. Between 2013 and 2017, he participated in the Professional Media Masterclass program for artistic documentary film at the Werkleitzgesellschaft in Halle (PMMC). The resulting films LEUNA (13') and HABITAT (79') were shown at international film festivals and various exhibitions. Since the beginning of 2018, he has been working on the hybrid feature-length documentary LA DUNA (120'). In April 2020 he made the 5-channel video installation "Exploitation or how to break the surface" (15' loop). 

Contact:
Emerson Culurgioni
Film Studies
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