Mariano Baino

Mariano Baino - , Director, Writer, Editor known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Tales of the Uncanny» (2020), «Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror» (2021), «Dark Waters» (1993), «Hidden 3D» (2011),

Mariano Baino is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist, hailed by Montreal's FantAsia Film Festival (where his film “DARK WATERS” received the coveted Prix Du Public) as “one of the great torchbearers for expressionistic genre cinema”. He won the “Vincent Price Award for outstanding contribution to fantastic cinema” and the "Silver Bat Career Achievement Award" at Rome’s FantaFestival.

His feature film DARK WATERS, “a veritable object of veneration among horror fans” in the words of Italian newspaper La Repubblica, received prestigious gala screenings at Lincoln Center in New York, the National Cinema Museum in Turin, Italy, the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theater and the Italian Cinematheque in Rome, and has been released to great acclaim all over the

world. DARK WATERS has been named one of the 20 films with The Creepiest Nuns In Movie History by VARIETY and top of the 10 Best Italian Horror Movies on Shudder by SCREENRANT.COM

His latest feature film is ASTRID'S SAINTS.

Mariano is also a renowned multimedia artist with successful art exhibitions and installations in the USA and Europe, most recently ARS INFECTA at Rome's Museum of Contemporary Art, IMAGO IGNIS and VULTUS VELI at the magnificent Hall of the Leprosarium, in Naples, Italy, LUCTUS IGNIS at the Savoy Multiplex in Rome, the LADY M 5.1 installation at Mana Contemporary, NJ, and CYPHERS AND FLAMES at The SoapBox Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

The most significant works of Mariano Baino

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