Arturo Bandinelli
Associate Artist | Filmmaker
Arturo is an award-winning filmmaker, researcher, and psychoanalyst in formation at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London. His work explores the intersections between subjectivity and otherness, gaze and identity, sexual politics and embodiment. He holds a BA in Film and Television from the London College of Communication (UAL) and an MA in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck, University of London.
His first film, Otto Floss: Freelance Watcher (2014), gained international recognition with awards and festival selections across Europe and North America. His subsequent works bridge drama and experimental forms, often combining choreographic, performative, and psychoanalytic approaches.
Arturo’s Walls of Limerick (2018/19) — an experimental dance film examining the psychosocial effects of political borders — received over forty international screenings and multiple awards (including Certamen de Soria, Spain; InShadow Festival, Portugal; and The Richard Harris International Film Festival, Ireland). His later work Viscera: Autopsy of a (non)Human Body (2021) deepened his exploration of corporeality through performance-based collaboration, earning recognition at CineAutopsia Bogotá and the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival.
His most recent film, SOMA (2023), continues this trajectory, blending myth, movement, and psychoanalytic imagery to explore the genesis of the human body. The film has been screened and awarded internationally, including Best European Experimental Film (ECU Paris), Best Experimental (Bristol Independent Film Festival), and First Prize for Video Dance (LENS DANS, Barcelona).
Besides his artistic affiliation with KWAM Collective, Arturo frequently collaborates with choreographers, dancers, visual artists, and composers including Andrea Boccadoro, Peter Brandt, Murat Adash, and Lara Ritosa Roberts, developing cross-disciplinary projects across film, performance, and music.