Giulio Squillacciotti

Giulio Squillacciotti (born 1982 in Rome) is an artist and filmmaker. His work is mainly oriented on the mutation and invention of traditions by merging together fiction and historical facts. Using film, documentary, writing and scenography, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, speculative storytelling, religion and popular culture.
Squillacciotti studied Medieval Art History in Barcelona and Rome before obtaining a Master's degree in Visual Arts at the IUAV in Venice. He was a Fellow Resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht where he developed a project on the fictitious end of Europe and the loss of the shared identity of a political project. He received MEDIA Creative Europe and Screen Ireland funds to develop a fiction film co-produced by Italy, Ireland and Poland.