Mariano Baino
Directing
Biography
Mariano Baino is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist, hailed by Montreal's FantAsia Film Festival (where his film “DARK WATERS” received the coveted Prix Du Public) as “one of the great torchbearers for expressionistic genre cinema”. He won the “Vincent Price Award for outstanding contribution to fantastic cinema” and the "Silver Bat Career Achievement Award" at Rome’s FantaFestival. His feature film DARK WATERS, “a veritable object of veneration among horror fans” in the words of Italian newspaper La Repubblica, received prestigious gala screenings at Lincoln Center in New York, the National Cinema Museum in Turin, Italy, the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theater and the Italian Cinematheque in Rome, and has been released to great acclaim all over the world. DARK WATERS has been named one of the 20 films with The Creepiest Nuns In Movie History by VARIETY and top of the 10 Best Italian Horror Movies on Shudder by SCREENRANT.COM His latest feature film is ASTRID'S SAINTS. Mariano is also a renowned multimedia artist with successful art exhibitions and installations in the USA and Europe, most recently ARS INFECTA at Rome's Museum of Contemporary Art, IMAGO IGNIS and VULTUS VELI at the magnificent Hall of the Leprosarium, in Naples, Italy, LUCTUS IGNIS at the Savoy Multiplex in Rome, the LADY M 5.1 installation at Mana Contemporary, NJ, and CYPHERS AND FLAMES at The SoapBox Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
Known For
An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to its resurgence in the last decade.
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
Tales of the Uncanny
Following the death of celebrated scientist Susan Carter, her son Brian is surprised to inherit her controversial experimental addiction treatment center. When he and some friends visit the property, they uncover a terrifying and deadly secret.
Hidden 3D
After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.
Dark Waters
A grieving mother forced to unravel the mysteries that bind her to other grieving mothers, their children and the Saints to whom all of them are devoted.
Astrid's Saints
Three dark and bizarre shorts from Mr. Baino's feverish imagination, praised by The Daily Star as "a man with an overflowing and wild imagination that Bram Stoker could envy". The Trinity of Darkness gives a new meaning to the old sentence.
The Trinity of Darkness
A short horror film by director Mariano Baino about a female vampire.
Caruncula
Documentary about the life and career of actress Carolina Cataldi-Tassoni with special focus on her work in Dario Argento's "Opera".
Opera Runs in the Blood
In a dystopic future where all books have been eliminated and tablets are compulsory, the last human on earth must battle relentless drones designed to blind humans to prevent them from reading.
A Moving Read
A man became obssessed with a dream car, soon his dream become a claustrophobic nightmare.
Dream Car
A woman's dissatisfaction with her body leads her to agree to a strange operation.