Marica De Michele (Italy, 1986) is a filmmaker and visual artist working across experimental fiction, non-fiction, documentary, video art, and installation. Her work explores themes of presence and absence, often using the human body as both subject and material: at times fully present, at others dissolving into space. Embracing film as an experiential and spatial form, she is drawn to the abstraction of reality and its contemplative potential. Her practice merges visual composition, movement, perception, and sound to create poetic, sensory, and immersive experiences. Deeply rooted in a multidisciplinary approach, she combines scenography, performance, design, and sound, with video editing as the central tool through which she constructs and manipulates new realities. Even when working with real elements, her lens often departs from traditional documentary language, leaning instead into abstraction and sensorial reinterpretation. Marica studied Set Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and later graduated in Man & Communication from Design Academy Eindhoven. Alongside her studies, she explored photography, video, and performance during an exchange at Sabancı University in Istanbul and later deepened her practice through residencies and workshops, including a reportage project in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. She has collaborated with artists, performers, musicians, and researchers, and believes in the power of creative exchange to expand perception and narrative. Whether working in the art world or on commission, she continuously adapts her language while staying true to her experimental spirit.