Donato Sansone

Luca is a forty-year-old teacher experiencing a relationship crisis with his wife, Sara, who is much wealthier than him. During the lockdown, Luca finds himself a bystander in the life of his new neighbor, Amanda, and decides to bridge the distance between them, with disastrous consequences.

An artistic improvisation in real time led day in and day out, inspired by international events as taken from the pages of the French daily newspaper Libération.

It all starts with the discovery of a severed head and a dead cat, and ends up with a journey into the bowels of dreams and nightmares.

A humble paintbrush assumes unprecedented powers in this bravura display of eye-popping, mind-bending, and body-morphing ingenuity.

Short animation by Donate Sansone

Human beings have become war machines, unstoppable destroyers of everything that surrounds them. Is there still hope for the future or are we stuck in an endless nightmare?

11 totally inexplicable car accidents filmed live.

A slow and surreal video slideshow of nightmarish, grotesque and apparently static characters.

Two cyborg warriors face off in a battle to the death. ‘An eye for an eye’ is the least of it.

A destructive sequence with infinite consequences.

This is a video collage created using mash-up and split-screen techniques. It is linked to the idea of dance that allows the body to change shape and content in a grunge and punk surrealistic manner.

A prodigious animated short film created using sketches scribbled on sheets of paper scattered around a room, which the author folds and unfolds as the story unfolds.

A short animated visual madness, where body parts merge and transform through one continuous and strange metamorphosis.

Short experimental animation by Donato Sansone and Enrico Ascoli

A television crew decides to make a documentary about the spread of a new, highly transmissible virus responsible for Gerber syndrome—a disease with devastating effects. Through the accounts of three people closely affected by the condition—a doctor, an infected young woman, and a young security guard—the crew discovers that no authority has ever told the truth about the situation and that the virus has already infected a large portion of the population, spreading even through a simple handshake.

Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the city of Turin, Italy. It mixes the documentary language with comedy and fiction, and is enriched by interviews to some of the most important voices of Turin cinematography. The film follows the evolution of movie theaters by enlightening its main milestones: the pre-cinema experiences in the late 19th Century, the colossals and the movie cathedrals of the silent era, the arthouse theaters, the National Museum of Cinema, the Torino Film Festival, the movie theaters system today and the main hypothesis about its future. The mission of Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is to explore and give back to the audience a deep reflection about the identity and the value of movie theater, in its social and anthropological role and as a mass media, and to analyze the experience of the viewer.

Tormented pencil-drawn creatures and shapes try to escape their canvas.

The video clip was created through painstaking hand and rotoscoped one-step animation work under a 3D structure created in computer graphics. The video, which serves as a backdrop to a musical piece by electronic music composer Max Cooper, is conceived through the use of simple structures and shapes in continuous “sound” transformation. Geometric elements, which are the visual equivalent of sounds, evolve into an abstract, undefined dimension, creating a colorful “dance” of signs in space.

A chain reaction as a new Olympic sport.

This docuseries sheds light on the killing of a German teenager in '78 through the accounts of his sister and the royal family involved in the case.