Italian film director and actress Colagrande was born in Pescara Abruzzo Italy She studied in Italy Switzerland and Australia and in 1995 she moved to Rome where she began making video art and documentaries on contemporary art From 1997 to 2000 she joined the art project VOLUME making a series of video portraits of seven contemporary artists Jannis Kounellis Alfredo Pirri Bernhard Rüdiger Nunzio Raimund Kummer Gianni Dessí Maurizio Savini and Sol LeWitt She made three short films Carnaval 1997 Fetus 4 brings death 1999 and n3 2000 In 2001 she wrote directed and starred in her first feature film Aprimi il Cuore Open My Heart which opened at the Venice Film Festival 2002 and then was selected by many international film festivals such as the Tribeca Film Festival 2003 in competition and Paris Cinéma 2003 where it won the award Prix de lavenir Giada was also nominated for Best New Director at the Silver Ribbon 2003 Open my Heart was released in Italy by Lucky Red and in the USA by Strand Releasing In 2005 she directed her second feature Before it Had a Name which she cowrote and costarred in with Willem Dafoe The film opened at the Venice Film Festival 2005 was then showed in San Sebastian Film Festival and various other international festivals It was distributed worldwide by Millennium with the title Black Widow In 2010 she wrote and directed her third feature A Woman starring Willem Dafoe and Jess Weixler It also premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2010 and then screened at many other international film festivals In 2012 she made The Woman Dress the third short film of the PRADA series The Miu Miu Womens Tales and completed the featurelength film Bob Wilsons Life Death of Marina Abramovic a documentary on the opera directed by Robert Wilson based on Marina Abramovi?s biography starring Willem Dafoe Antony Hegarty and Abramovi? herself which was screened at MoMA in New York and at the Louvre Museum in Paris Both films premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2012 In 2013 the film The Abramovic Method which continues her collaboration with performance artist Marina Abramovi? was presented at the Venice Film Festival and is now being shown in various museums around the world Wikipedia
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