Ilaria Di Carlo is an Italian visual artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She studied at Central Saint Martin's College of Art in London and at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. She subsequently studied filmmaking at the SAE Institute of Berlin. Her visually driven films explore the role of myth and poetry as a reflection on contemporary life while focusing on the themes of journey and identity in relation to spaces, landscapes, and architecture. Her films have been screened at numerous prestigious international film festivals and have been presented in various museums, exhibitions and institutions. She is a member of Bundesverband Regie (German Directors Association) and one of the founders of the film production company LHOOQ Films GbR and of the Foundation Cinema e Luce.
Monolithic power plants; billowing columns of smoke; the backdrop of a red sun. _Sirens_ is an experimental short documentary that captures Germany's coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses' boat through the Sirens' strait. An odyssey thr...
Monolithic power plants; billowing columns of smoke; the backdrop of a red sun. _Sirens_ is an experimental short documentary that captures Germany's coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses' boat through the Sirens' strait. An odyssey thr...