TALE of LOVE

Marica De Michele (Locorotondo, Apulia, 02/09/86) is an Italian freelance filmmaker, editor and set designer based in the Netherlands. She approached for the first time photography, video making and editing during an exchange study program in Visual Arts at Sabanci Universiteti in Istanbul. After she obtained her BA in Set Design from Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, she started working as an assistant scenographer for independent theatre companies, but she also kept experimenting on her own with photography and video-editing. In 2011 she attended a Photography Reportage Class by Dario De Dominicis in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Thanks to her multi-disciplinary approach, in 2018 she obtained another BA in Man & Communication from Design Academy Eindhoven. Trough these years of study, constant search and research, new experimentations and never-ending personal reflections, Marica slowly realised her devotion for the audiovisual. During her internship period in New York, while assisting the absurdist photographer Alison Brady and the activist poet and performer Jamie Olowale Kosoko, Marica proclaimed film as her main medium. Since then, by maintaining the same self-taught approach, her movie production has grown exponentially. Currently, while developing her own artistic voice, Marica mostly collaborates with artists, performers, designers and musicians.