Luca Grazioli
Directing
Biography
Luca Grazioli, class 1998. He was born in Brescia, but he trained in Milan where he still lives. In 2021, he graduated with honors from the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti with a thesis on Takeshi Kitano. He made his debut the same year with the short film Donne Senza Uomini. His Super 8 diptych Portrait de Rosa, à la française and Ritratto di Rosa, all’italiana explores form and memory through an experimental lens. His latest short film, Dolci Acque (2024), has been selected for Dieci Corti in giro per il Mondo 2025, an initiative by the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio. In 2025, he made a video essay with and about Oscar-winning editor Joe Walker, titled A Life in Frames. He works primarily as art director and head of post-production at Karmachina, focusing on large-scale multimedia projects. Since 2023, he has been a university lecturer in editing and multimedia at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti.
Known For
In the summer of 1981, Renzo and Monica, two twenty-year-olds from different worlds, fall in love against the backdrop of Lake Garda. Their story reflects the intimacy and challenges of an era, with dreams of social redemption juxtaposed against bourgeois privileges.
Smooth Runs the Water
Italy 1965. Marcello, a middle-class man, decides to spend the night with a prostitute. He gets in touch with a luxurious brothel managed by a very strict owner with draconian rules. Among multiple women introduced to him he chooses Bice, a young woman in her early twenties. After their sexual intercourse the bedroom’s phone rings.
Women Without Men
Filmed on Super 8 in Paris, Portrait de Rosa, à la française portrays an intimate love story through quiet images and gentle emotion.
Portrait de Rosa, à la française
"Ritratto di Rosa, all'italiana" stands as the second act of the trilogy begun in 2019 with "Portrait de Rosa, à la française." The poetry of the first chapter is replaced by a melody that takes the viewer back among the waves of a journey, among rocks and shells. A song full of love and hope from the past, setting the end of youth and the beginning of maturity.
Ritratto di Rosa, all'italiana
A Life in Frames explores Joe Walker's work, tracing his career from early life to his most recent films. Through detailed analysis and discussion, it examines the techniques, choices, and creative vision that define his editing.