My name is Cristina Marinelli, I lived my childhood in the 70s in Ivrea, the Olivetti socio-cultural environment of those years strongly contributed to my artistic training.
I was lucky enough to have two parents who never hesitated to take me with them to the screenings of the Ivrea film club; despite my young age, I soon fell in love with auteur cinema.
I have an artistic training, the “Art Institute” of Turin 1980/85 and “School of Professional Photography” 1986/89 in Lausanne.
I moved to Paris in 1990 where I worked for the major French newspapers as a portrait photographer.
All my work has always been conditioned by two great filmmakers Ingmar Bergman and Andrej Tarkovskij.
Curiosity prompted me to continue my training in photography by attending various workshops at the TPW, furthermore in 2021 I took degree in Psychologists at the University of Valle d'Aosta, finally, I’m finishing my degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at University of Torino.

INSIGHT is my first short film, not entirely mine as it was a collaboration with two of my film classmates, Zacht and Loris, at Cinelab in Turin