DESIREE MARIANINI TORTA

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVIII
email: desiree.marianini@uniroma1.it




supervisor: Daniele Brigadoi Cologna, Università dell'Insubria
co-supervisor: Luisa Prudentino, Inalco - Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales

Research: Personal cinema and the creative reuse of archive material in contemporary Chinese documentary

Contemporary Chinese documentary has undergone a profound evolution from the 1980s to the present day. Starting from the works of three Chinese documentary filmmakers, through a diachronic analysis and a comparison of dramaturgy and aesthetics, the research aims to consolidate the state of the art on contemporary Chinese documentary cinema and deepen the form of artistic expression of Personal Cinema that operates the creative reuse of archival material by retracing the social traumas of the People's Republic of China over the last century. The research also aims to highlight how the contemporary practice of re-appropriation of individual memories can contribute to the discourse on amateur cinema and new technologies in China.

2025 Visiting Ph.D. Student at Peking University as part of the
Xin hanxue jihua research program.

2024 Winner of the research grant funded by Sapienza University of Rome
for the project entitled: “First database of independent Chinese documentaries".

2019 HSK Level 5

2017 Teaching Foreign Language Course (For24), European University of Rome

2013-2016 ZeLIG Film School for Documentary, Television and New Media, diploma in Directing and Project development for documentary cinema.

2012 CEDILS Certification Teaching Italian to foreigners

07/2006 Master Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations, La Sapienza University, Rome

2005 – 2007 Chinese Government Scholarship Program (CGSP) at Peking University and Huazhong Normal University of Wuhan

2003 - 2004 Beijing Language and Culture University, China Advanced Chinese Course (Confucius Institute Scholarship)

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