Nicola Mai

Nicola Mai is a filmmaker, ethnographer and sociologist. His films focus on the experiences and representations of migrants working in the sex industry. Inspired by Jean Rouch's ethnofictions, Nicola Mai developed a participatory, creative and collaborative filmmaking methodology transcending the distinction between fiction and non-fiction, participation and observation, knowledge and emotions. By combining collaborative fictional methodologies and mainstream observational filmmaking his films involve marginalized migrant groups and individuals in the self-representations of their complex experiences. Mai's current film projects adopt the same collaborative and co-creative approach to explore the relationship between climate change the transition to green societies and the displacements and social responses that are emerging in the process.