Carlo Ghioni

Réalisateur·trice

BIOGRAPHIE

Originally from Italy, I left my homeland for Canada in hopes of furthering my professional aspirations. I currently hold Canadian Landed Immigrant status. I have eleven years experience as a Steadicam and camera operator in drama, documentary and news. Merging my technical and creative backgrounds, I have directed four shorts, and twelve documentaries. In developing future projects, I look forward to producing work in both Canada and Europe. Familiar with the cultures of both North America and Europe, my artistic perspective occupies the gap between them. I bring to my craft a strong cultural heritage, a soundly developed film language, and a keen appreciation for technical enhancement when such is used as a tool to express meaning and visuals. My approach to filmmaking reflects the tradition of master cinema in my country of origin, particularly the school of Neo-realism. My work is also influenced by poetry and song writing and is characterized by a certain rhythm. Rather than delivering information along a sequential timeline, as is common in Western grammars, I prefer to create meaning through visual figures of opposition, dissociation, association and oxymoron – like the ideograms of Eastern idioms. My background, both in the technical and the creative domain, has allowed me to write screenplays while envisioning both the design of shots, and the necessary means to accomplish these shots, through traditional and innovative camera work. For me, the camera has become a pen to write stories. I bring to my filmmaking considerable life experience. I grew up close to the streets and am intimately familiar with the complex and dark realities of urban living in a multi-racial/ethnic/cultural society. As a way out, I served as a Peace Keeper/Maker with the Italian army in contexts very similar to, if not the same as, those involving Canadian Peace Keepers/Makers. Furthermore, I am presently living the “reality” of a New Canadian, experiencing on a daily basis the hope and disappointment shared by people caught between worlds. These life experiences have developed within me a compassionate interest in and understanding of the human condition, and this informs both my work and my attitude to living.

FILMOGRAPHIE