Donato Sansone

Since the early 2000s, he has been directing short films, commercials, viral videos, and music videos for Italian and international musicians (including Afterhours, Subsonica, Verdena, Max Cooper, and Tony Iommi). In 2011, the Cinémathèque québécoise ranked “Videogioco” among the 50 short films that changed the history of animation. In 2014, his Grotesque photobooth was selected among the 20 videos of the year by Saatchi & Saatchi as part of the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. In November 2016, “journal animé” was selected as one of the five finalists for the César Award and was included in the list of 70 short films competing for the Oscars. In June 2018, his video “Ghost Crash” went viral on Facebook, reaching 250 million views. In 2022, the Chicago-based agency High Dive commissioned him to create a TV commercial for the NHL hockey playoffs. In 2020, the Arte TV show Tracks produced documentaries about his work. From April 7 to October 8, his solo exhibition “metaverse” was held at the National Cinema Museum in Turin, at the Mole Antonelliana.