Irene Dorigotti is a visual anthropologist and filmmaker with degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (University of Bologna) and Political Sciences (University of Turin). Her research focuses on sensory perception, temporality, spirituality, and experimental ethnographic methods at the intersection of cinema and anthropology. Her films include Apnea (2019 Torino Film Festival), Herz-Jesu-Feuer (2021), Le Grand Reve (2022 Trento Film Festival), and the epic film Across (2023), which won Premio Solinas 2017 and premiered at Venice Film Festival (Giornate degli Autori). Across resulted from eight years of multi-sited fieldwork exploring the sacred through cinema, combining participant observation, visual documentation, and performative intervention across Italy, Vietnam, Mexico, and Cambodia. Her work bridges anthropology, cinema, and performance art, examining how rituals and sacred practices resacralize reality in late modernity. She has collaborated with cinematographer Simone Rosset and producer Carlo Shalom Hintermann in creating works that challenge conventional boundaries between ethnographic documentation and artistic creation.
