Artist Statement

I collect, dismantle and assemble images in lyrical pieces that frame memories of places and feelings in imaginary spaces. Each piece follows the urgency of my emotions as they act as passionate footprints of a non-linear story teller. In my work I am longing for depth, poetry, and the ultimate blending of sound and images.

Animation is my favorite way to experiment with generating continuity from discontinuity, motion from stillness, and vibrant spaces from flat images, reinventing and expanding the experience of classical cinema.

Honors and awards

2020

Artist in Residence at BASE-Milano with BEPART and
ARDA - A Ritmo D'Acque, Milano, Italy

2016

“Visiting Italian Anna Maglione-Sie Scholar”, University of Denver, Colorado,

Department of Languages & Literature

2011

Artist in Residence at DCCA (Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts)

Wilmington, Delaware

2009

“Italo Scanga” Visiting Artist, University of Rhode Island, Art department

2008

Artist in Residence in the Town of Breckenridge, Colorado

Brindle Foundation Residency Grant, SFAI (Santa Fe Art Institute), Santa Fe, New Mexico

Artist in Residence at Platteforum, Denver, Colorado

2007

Awarded the Centennial Celebration of TheMacDowell Colony project, in Peterborough, New Hampshire

Fellow at The Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy

Helen L. Bing Fellowship, at Djerassi, California

2006

Fellow at TheMacDowell Colony, New Hampshire

Town of Breckenridge, Colorado

Artist in Residence at Platteforum, Denver, Colorado

Fellow at Yaddo, New York

2005

Fellow at TheMacDowell Colony, New Hampshire

Fellow at The Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy

2003

Selected as one of eight Italian filmmakers for Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin, Germany

1997

Fulbright Scholarship for an MFA in the U.S.

For the film "Lo Sguardo Italiano - The Italian Gaze"

2021

Honorable Mention at Deep Focus Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2018

Audience Award for Best Short Animation at the Culver City Film Festival, Culver City, CA

Director's Choice Award at Black Maria Film Festival 2019

Best in Show Audience Award at Aggregate Animated Shorts, Oakland, CA

Platinum Remi Award at the 51st Worldfest - Houston International Film Festival, Houston, TX

2017

Special Mention at Imaginaria Animation Festival,

Conversano, Bari, Italy

Best of Festival - Experimental Short category, Richmond International Film Festival,  Richmond, VA

For the film "L.City"

2012

First Prize, James River Shorts, Richmond, VA

2007

"Sadho Seven" Award at the Sadho Poetry Film Festival, Dehli, India

2004

Prize “Panorama Italiano”, at Sonar Film Festival,

Lastra a Signa (FI), Italy

Jury Award for Best Italian Short at Immaginale, German-Italian Short Film Festival,  Roma, Italy

"Shortvillage" Award for Best Italian Short at UrbanIsland, International Short Film Festival, Roma, Italy

Prize "La Tarantola" for Best Animation Film - Short Film Festival Pergola (PU), Italy

2003

First Prize at "Inventa un Film", International Film Festival,

Lenola (LT), Italy

Kodak Prize for Best Cinematography at Siena International Short Film Festival, Siena, Italy

Prize “Artecolica” - Venice Circuito OFF, Venezia, Italy

Jury Award at the NYExpo, New York, NY

For the film "Train"

1999

Jury Award at the NYExpo, New York, NY

Finalist at the NextFrame Film Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Festivals

with "Lo Sguardo Italiano"

2019

St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, Missouri

Animaze, International Animation Festival, Montreal, Canada

FilmArte Festival, Madrid, Spain

Biennale del Cortometraggio, Vicenza, Italy

Black Maria Film Festival, several locations  (listed in “screenings”)

2018

Culver City Film Festival, Culver City, California

Animation Marathon, Athens, Greece

Blow-up International Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois

Rome Independent Cinema Festival, Roma, Italy

51st Worldfest - Houston International Film Festival, Houston, Texas

2017

Imaginaria International Animation Festival, Conversano, Bari, Italy - International Premiere

Richmond International Film Festival, Virginia

2016

Denver Film Festival, Colorado - World Premiere

with "L.City" (selected)

2012

James River Short Film Festival, Richmond, Virginia

2009

Version Festival, Short films on poems, Manchester, UK

2007

Sadho Poetry Film Festival, Delhi, India

2005

Fantoche - Int. Animation Festival, program "New York, New York", Baden, Switzerland

2004

SonarFilmFestival, Lastra a Signa (FI), Italy

Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong

Immaginale - German-Italian Short Film Festival, Roma, Italy

Maremetraggio - International  Short Film Festival, Trieste, Italy

Urban Island – Short Film Festival about City and Cinema, Roma, Italy

Festival  "La Tarantola", Pergola (PU), Italy

2003

International Short Film Festival - Siena, Italy

Matita Film Festival - Guardiagrele(CH), Italy

London Film Festival, London, Great Britain

Fantoche - International Animation Festival, Switzerland

Turku International Animation Festival – Finland

Mediawave, travelling Art  Expo, Hungaria, Czech Republic, Romania

Philadelphia Film Festival – Philadelphia, PA

Taiwan International Animation Festival, Taiwan

Tehran International Animation Festival  – Iran

Anima - Brussels, Belgium

Animac - International Animation Festival Lleida, Spain

2002

NYExpo - Film and Video Festival, New York

Officinema, Bologna, Italy

Tenerife International Animation Festival, Tenerife

Castelli Animati – Genzano di Roma, Italy

Leipzig - International Festival for Documentary and Animation, Germany

SITGES Barcelona, Spain

Nantucket Film Festival, Nantucket Island, U.S.A

IFP/West Los Angeles Film Festival

Venice Circuito OFF, Venice, Italy

Annecy International Animation Festival, France

Fantoche - International Animation  Festival, Zurich, Switzerland

Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands

Prend ça court, Montreal, Canada

2000

NYExpo - Film and Video Festival, New York, NY

NextFrame Film Festival – Philadelphia, PA

Screenings

with "Lo Sguardo Italiano - The Italian Gaze"

2019

Bickford Theatre, Morris Museum, NJ

Judy K. Jolliffe Theatre, Kalamazoo, MI

Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ

2018

"Eravamo gli Altri: sguardi animati su migrazioni e Memoria," VIEW Fest, Torino, Italy

2016

"Festival Internazionale di Poesia," Fondazione Bogliasco, Genova, Italia

with "L. City"

2007

"CalArts: the school of movement," Centre Pompidou, Feb/Mar 2007, Paris, France

"Tomorrowland: CalArts in moving picture," MoMa (Museum of Modern Art), May 2006,  New York

2003

"Open Roads," selection of new Italian Cinema at Lincoln Center, New York, New York

2002

CalArts Experimental Animation Showcase, North Hollywood, U.S.A

Bijou Theater/CalArts, Valencia, California

"Il fiume e la Memoria" (The River and The Memory), Pescara, Italy

with "Train"

2000

FinalCut - KCET/Public Television Los Angeles

1999

NYExpo, New York, New York

NextFrame Film Festival, Philadephia, Philadelphia

Exhibitions

2024
"Animation as Art - A multi-sensory experience", Texas Tech Museum, Lubbock, TX

"New Faculty Show", Harry Wood Gallery, School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2021

NOMAD, Torrance, CA

2018

UnRULY - a celebration of 15 years of artists at PlatteForum,
Denver, CO

2017

"Lo Sguardo Italiano", solo show,Fondazione Pescarabruzzo, Pescara

"Radius250 2017" 7th biennial juried exhibition, ArtSpace, Richmond, Virginia

2013

Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

Spacewomb Gallery, Long Island, New York

“Liminal Variance”, Gallery of the Weinstein International Center,

University of  Richmond, Virginia

2009

"Human's Shouldn't Do Machine's Work"

 Eileen Braziel Fine Art at VIP Lounge of Red Dot Fair, Miami, Florida

2008

"Unframed Experience: Conjoining Historic Architecture and Installations",

 Eileen Braziel Fine Art at El Zaguan Historic House, Santa Fe, New Mexico

"Simultaneous Visions: the City Raises", PlatteForum, Denver, Colorado

2006

Gallery440 - Small Work Show, New York, NY

Platteforum, exhibiton with paintings from "Lo Sguardo Italiano", Denver, CO - solo show

2004

Gallery 825/LAAA – Los Angeles, California

2002

"Il fiume e la memoria" (River and memory) Screening and exhibition, Pescara, Italy - solo show

Press and News

"Lo Sguardo Italiano - The Italian Gaze" reviewed on Short Films Matter

"Lo Sguardo Italiano - The Italian Gaze" featured on Zippy Frames

"Lo Sguardo Italiano" in the review of Giannalberto Bendazzi for the magazine Cineclub

Sandro Del Rosario Artist in residence at BASE Milano with BEPART for the project "ARDA - A Ritmo D'Acque"

Sandro Del Rosario interviewed on VoyageLA Magazine about his story and work

Sandro Del Rosario interviewed about "Lo Sguardo Italiano - The Italian Gaze" on We Are Moving Stories

"Lo Sguardo Italiano" original oil pastels and the film exhibited at the Fondazione Pescarabruzzo, in Italy

"Lo Sguardo Italiano" protagonist of a successful crowd-sourcing campaign on Kickstarter

Featured with "Lo Sguardo Italiano" on Wired.it (in Italian)

Sandro Del Rosario and "Lo Sguardo Italiano" twice featured in the website of Italian writer and translator Silvia Pareschi: here in 2014 (article in Italian), and here in 2011 (article in English)

In the news at the University of Richmond after winning the James River Film Festival  in 2012

At the DCCA (Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts) as an Artist in Residence

Sandro Del Rosario Artist in Residence at Platteforum with project "Simultaneous Visions"....

Sandro Del Rosario Artist in Residence  in the Town of Breckenridge, Colorado

Biography

Sandro Del Rosario's films and installations are inspired by places, feelings and memories of feelings, distilled through a labor intensive animation process that transforms still images, photos, paintings and collages in moving, imaginary spaces.

Born in Italy, with a background as a multi media designer, Del Rosario came to the U.S. with a Fulbright Scholarship in 1998. He received an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts.

His work has been awarded and exhibited in many festivals and venues worldwide, including at the Annecy Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Berlinale Talent Campus, the MoMa, the Lincoln Center and the Hong Kong Film Festival.

Over the past twenty years Del Rosario has been a fellow in residence with his work at a number of prestigious foundations in Europe and in the U.S, at the Bogliasco Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Santa Fe Art Institute among the others.

Currently Assistant Professor of Animation at Arizona State University, in Tempe, Arizona, Del Rosario previously worked as Art Director in Los Angeles, and traveled extensively as a Visiting Artist and Visiting Assistant Professor at non-profit foundations and universities across the United States.

Artist Statement

I collect, dismantle and assemble images in lyrical pieces that frame memories of places and feelings in imaginary spaces. Each piece follows the urgency of my emotions as they act as passionate footprints of a non-linear story teller. In my work I am longing for depth, poetry, and the ultimate blending of sound and images.

Animation is my favorite way to experiment with generating continuity from discontinuity, motion from stillness, and vibrant spaces from flat images, reinventing and expanding the experience of classical cinema.

Honors and awards

2020

Artist in Residence at BASE-Milano with BEPART and ARDA - A Ritmo D'Acque, Milano, Italy

2016

“Visiting Italian Anna Maglione-Sie Scholar”, University of Denver, Colorado,

Department of Languages & Literature

2011

Artist in Residence at DCCA (Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts)

Wilmington, Delaware

2009

“Italo Scanga” Visiting Artist, University of Rhode Island, Art department

2008

Artist in Residence in the Town of Breckenridge, Colorado

Brindle Foundation Residency Grant, SFAI (Santa Fe Art Institute), Santa Fe, New Mexico

Artist in Residence at Platteforum, Denver, Colorado

2007

Awarded the Centennial Celebration of TheMacDowell Colony project, in Peterborough, New Hampshire

Fellow at The Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy

Helen L. Bing Fellowship, at Djerassi, California

2006

Fellow at TheMacDowell Colony, New Hampshire

Town of Breckenridge, Colorado

Artist in Residence at Platteforum, Denver, Colorado

Fellow at Yaddo, New York

2005

Fellow at TheMacDowell Colony, New Hampshire

Fellow at The Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy

2003

Selected as one of eight Italian filmmakers for Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin, Germany

1997

Fulbright Scholarship for an MFA in the U.S.

For the film "Lo Sguardo Italiano - The Italian Gaze"

2021

Honorable Mention at Deep Focus Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2018

Audience Award for Best Short Animation at the Culver City Film Festival, Culver City, CA

Director's Choice Award at Black Maria Film Festival

2019

Best in Show Audience Award at Aggregate Animated Shorts, Oakland, CA

Platinum Remi Award at the 51st Worldfest - Houston International

Film Festival, Houston, TX

2017

Special Mention at Imaginaria Animation Festival,

Conversano, Bari, Italy

Best of Festival - Experimental Short category, Richmond International Film Festival,  Richmond, VA

For the film "L.City"

2012

First Prize, James River Shorts, Richmond, VA

2007

"Sadho Seven" Award at the Sadho Poetry Film Festival, Dehli, India

2004

Prize “Panorama Italiano”, at Sonar Film Festival,

Lastra a Signa (FI), Italy

Jury Award for Best Italian Short at Immaginale, German-Italian Short Film Festival,  Roma, Italy

"Shortvillage" Award for Best Italian Short at UrbanIsland, International Short Film Festival, Roma, Italy

Prize "La Tarantola" for Best Animation Film - Short Film Festival Pergola (PU), Italy

2003

First Prize at "Inventa un Film", International Film Festival,

Lenola (LT), Italy

Kodak Prize for Best Cinematography at Siena International Short Film Festival, Siena, Italy

Prize “Artecolica” - Venice Circuito OFF, Venezia, Italy

Jury Award at the NYExpo, New York, NY

For the film "Train"

1999

Jury Award at the NYExpo, New York, NY

Finalist at the NextFrame Film Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania