Reel of the Dead

Gianni Carbotti is an Italian director, photographer, and reporter based in Rome. In 2023, he directed the short film Angelica. Active in the field of journalism, he has produced documentaries, reports, videos, and photo essays, alongside writing articles, interviews, investigations, and reviews over the years. At the same time, he has been involved in contemporary art, collaborating with artist Benjie Basili Morris in exhibitions, events, and video installations. His passion for underground music, which began in the 1990s when he started performing as a rock singer and performer, has led him to direct several music videos.

Camillo Maffia is an Italian writer born and raised in Rome. He is the author of four novels—Marian, Aurora, Gloria, and La ghironda di Lady Winter, published by Elison Publishing—as well as several short stories. Three of these—La Beccamorta, Sliding Gore, and Jerry's Halloween Special—were included in the Halloween all'Italiana anthologies of 2021, 2022, and 2023, published by Letteratura Horror. Two others—10 minuti and Lo scrigno a forma di bara—appeared in the Racconti dal Lazio anthologies of 2023 and 2024, published by Historica. He wrote the story and screenplay for the short film Angelica (2023), directed by Gianni Carbotti. Since 2021, he has been running the blog Relitti. Since 2010, he has worked in journalism, producing articles, interviews, investigations, reviews, documentaries, reports, and features for various publications. He has also composed and contributed to the soundtracks of some of these works, drawing from his experience in post-punk and experimental music groups from the late 1990s to 2010.