ISSABELLA ORLANDO IS A CANADIAN-ITALIAN WRITER & DIRECTOR WORKING IN DOCUMENTARY, EXPERIMENTAL, AND ARTISTIC & CULTURAL SHORT FILM.
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TOPOS, a poetic documentary.
An experimental short combining poetry and moving image to explore ancestral landscapes and generational memory in the Mediterranean.
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✯ SCREENING & ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION – Reference Point Presents: A Journey Through Ancestral Landscape, Memory & Migration | MONDAY 23 JUNE, 7PM | TICKETS
✯ PREMIERE – BAD GAL FILM CLUB PRESENTS: TOPOS, A POETIC DOCUMENTARY | SUNDAY 25 MAY, 4.30PM @ CLOSE-UP FILM CENTRE
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THE INVISIBLES
An experimental documentary exploring the emotional impacts of remote work and invisible labour.
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An Award-Winning Short Documentary
The Return Address (2020)
To connect the conversation around the repatriation of museum collections to wider audiences, I wrote, directed and produced this short documentary presenting both sides of a long-running art world debate.
Through conversations with industry leaders, the film breaks down the question of whether artefacts belong in museums or in their home territories, outlines benefits and challenges of repatriating cultural objects, and invites viewers to form an opinion on an important conversation that was, prior to the release of this film in 2020, highly gatekept.
The Return Address continues to be used as a teaching resource in museums and universities around the world, ensuring that this conversation can powerfully facilitate arts engagement.
Holy Craft! (2023)
I wrote, directed and produced Holy Craft! (2023), an independent documentary film series following a potter, printmaker, and team of historic boat restorers and tapping into their relationships with their work.
This three-part series of shorts takes an intimate look at the art of making and its connection to our cultural identities, emotional worlds, capacity for long-term thinking, and deeply creative brains.
Find commercial + client work in documentary-style video content HERE.
Self-shooting on SONY A7IV + Sigma lenses.