Biography
Danilo Torre (born in Catania, Italy 1978) starts working in the audiovisual field as a film editor in between anagogic and digital systems in 1999. In 2003 he graduates in editing at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (National School of Cinema) in Rome, where he currently teaches editing techniques, and work as a film editor for cinema and the audiovisual industry. Danilo works with analogical techniques, Super8 and film, achieving a position among the few Italian film- makers whose first work is dated 1999. Since 2007 he has been carrying out research on the contemporary art world, through the themes of found-footage, Remix and expanded cinema, working on the matter composing images and dragging the cinema out of the conventional cinematographic spaces. Therefore, he is conjugating cinema and video art in order to lead them back to a language confluence. He lives between Rome and Milan. Cinema is the tool I favor to explain myself. I grew up between old analogical machines and the new technologies and I cannot give away the old system to build new images. Cinema and audiovisual culture are for me the main area for art works. I never understood the difference between video art and cinema, because in my opinion moving images is moving images, but during my studies I discovered that the analogical video recorders are sons of the magnetic recording sound systems, and, for this reason, the video art pioneers are very close to musican. Nevertheless, it isn't a good reason for not considering it cinema.
