Gianluca Abbate is an artist and director of experimental films based in Roma, born in 1980. In 2016, he won a Nastro d'Argento and in 2015 best short film at the Turin Film Festival. In 2020 he was awarded the Efebo d'Oro for New Languages and the Goethe Film Award at the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin. His films have been screened at the Ann Arbor festival in the United States, at the MAXXI in Rome, MMOMA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul, MOCA Hiroshima, Palais de Tokyo and broadcast on ARTE France. He has given lectures at the Civic School of Cinema in Milan, Ied Rome, the Academy of Fine Arts in Frosinone and currently teaches at the NABA in Rome.