Biography

Lorenzo Gattorna is a filmmaker and curator originally from New York now residing in Baltimore. He received a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in 2007. His short films have screened in exhibitions associated with ARKIPEL, Artsfest Film Festival, Baltimore City Paper, CCNY, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Colour out of Space, EMP Collective, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Images Contre Nature, LMAKprojects, Les Rencontres Internationales, Maryland Film Festival, Maysles Cinema, Microscope Gallery, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Plug Projects, Sonic Circuits, Spectacle Theater, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, UnionDocs, Utopia Film Festival, Videofag, VIDEOMEDEJA and Views from the Avant-Garde at the New York Film Festival. He has programmed screenings for Anthology Film Archives, Antimatter [Media Art], Maysles Cinema, Spectacle Theater and UnionDocs. Recently he received the 2012 Creative Alliance Media Makers' Fellowship for Falling Out and was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the 2013 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize as well as the 2014 Trawick Prize for Coupled Vision. Currently Lorenzo is co-founder, director and curator of a nomadic entity in Baltimore known as Sight Unseen, supported by the MICA LAB Award, fiscally sponsored by Artists Public Domain and partially funded by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.