ISSABELLA ORLANDO IS A FILMMAKER, WRITER, ARTIST, and CONSULTANT obsessed with our roots: heritage, craft, personal history, our relationships with place, and lived experiences of arts & culture.

THROUGH HER CREATIVE STUDIO, AETIA, she works to capture these themes and what they mean to people through documentary film, multimedia journalism, and creative content. Her Artist and Craft Profiles delve into the rich inner lives of creatives, and the origin stories of art, objects, and cultures through intimate conversations and bespoke visual vignettes.

IN HER ARTISTIC PRACTICE, she writes and makes experimental films blending poetry and moving image to further explore these roots through a more personal lens. Her work enquires into how the past shapes and remains tethered to our present lives through vehicles like mythology, memory, self-understanding, grief and the supernatural.