Riccardo Giacconi, born in 1985 in Italy, studied at iuav University in Venice. He has been artist in residence at the International Centre of Art and Landscape in Vassivière (France), the macro in Rome, la Box in Bourges (France) and at Lugar a Dudas in Cali (Colombia). He has shown his films at several festivals, including Critics’ Week at the Mostra in Venice, the New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival in Rotterdam and the fid in Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix de la Compétition internationale in 2015.