Guglielmo Trupia
b.1986 — Brianza — Italy
A house in Naples, a happy New Year, fireworks over the city, the kisses of midnight. Then the same house appears different: empty and silent, the director's hands searching for traces of what may already have become memory. After the death of her father, she clears the family home — lingering over clothes in orderly wardrobes, black and white photographs of her parents young and beautiful, the useless things every home accumulates. Time passes. Her two daughters, Isotta and Anna Mia, grow up, play, argue, are close. The house opens its doors to them again. The space of Via Campegna becomes an intimate dimension of grief — and its transformation gives voice to mourning, to that flow which is in existence and memory as part of oneself and one's own history.
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documentary · 78'directed by Donatella di Ciccoco-written and edited by Guglielmo Trupiasound mix Elisa Piria · ENECEfilmcolor grading Anna Lapiccirellagraphics ascionemagroproduction Donatella di Cicco, ENECEfilm
By hybridizing ethnographic interview with animated fiction, the film places the viewer at the center of a fictitious assembly of 13 riders from three continents. Through their story, it sheds light on the impact of the gig economy on daily life, urban geography and the spaces constantly redesigned around it.
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documentary · 60'directed by Luca Quagliato, Laura Carrerco-written and edited by Guglielmo Trupia · ENECEfilmDOP Luca Quagliato · sound Laura Carreraudio post Elisa Piria · ENECEfilmanimation design Marco Meloni · music Alek Hidellcolor grading Anna Lapiccirellaproduction IRPI Media with Nepente Film, ENECEfilm, Ermeswith the support of European Cultural Foundation
A family weaves its network in the Po valley lowlands. Nomadic shepherds for generations, they move continuously through a fully urbanised landscape, hidden from sight. A film without rhetoric, made for the Archive of Ethnography and Social History of Regione Lombardia.
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documentary · 51'directed by ENECEfilmedited by Guglielmo TrupiaDOP Pietro de Tilla, Tommaso Perfettisound Elvio Manuzzi, Giulia La Marcaassistant editor Marta Innocentiproduction ENECEfilm · Archivio di Etnografia e Storia Sociale, Regione Lombardia
The Siege is a journey into the ritual that comes to life every year with the Italian Grand Prix of MotoGP. Nobody cares about the race: behind high barriers, 150,000 spectators gather to live a wild experience and feel free for one night in a place with no rules.
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documentary · 60'directed by Marta Innocentiedited by Guglielmo Trupiaproduction Echi Visividistribution Minerva Pictures
Vincenzo has always led a marginal existence. Now 42, he hasn't seen his daughter for a long time. He takes the train to go and see her, not knowing if he will be welcome. The time of the journey is like his lifetime — without apparent conclusion, where everything is mixed up in the chaos of poor choices. A bitter work, almost a hallucinatory vertigo.
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documentary · 60'directed by Tommaso Perfettiedited by Guglielmo Trupia, Chiara Tognolisound Giulia La Marca · audio mix Massimo Marianiproduction ENECEfilm · Ceresa Filmscreative producer Adriana Ferrarese
On a certain morning, in an unused industrial area of northern Italy, seventy-two musicians from various backgrounds are hired to work in a factory called 'Music Production Unit'. Supplied with overalls and ID numbers, they are divided into teams and instructed to produce music industrially — for eight hours.
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documentary · 77'directed by Pietro de Tilla, Elvio Manuzzi, Tommaso Perfetti · ENECEfilmedited by Guglielmo Trupia · ENECEfilma project by Enrico Gabrielli, Sergio Giustiproduction ENECEfilm
Curzio and Marzio are two picaroons — the same two sides of the same coin. Unknowingly dead, they meet and discover they are both searching for Sant'Alessio. An opera picaresque in two acts for magnetic tape, cinematographed by Luca Ferri.
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experimental film · 41'directed by Luca Ferriedited by Guglielmo Trupia · ENECEfilmwritten by Dario Agazzi · music Dario AgazziDOP Pietro de Tilla · ENECEfilm, Luca Ferriscenography and costume design Sara Galliproduction ENECEfilm, Luca Ferridistribution M.A.P. Editions
The district of San Cataldo, on the outskirts of Bari, is an artificial peninsula cut off from the city by an abandoned industrial complex. Three family generations live gathered around mechanics — the practical skills handed down from fathers to children as the only way to act upon reality.
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documentary · 52'directed by Fabrizio Bellomoedited by Guglielmo Trupia · co-produced by Guglielmo Trupiasound Giulia La Marca
Carlo Colla e Figli is one of Italy's most celebrated puppet companies. The work behind the scenes — shaping the figures, training new arrivals, rehearsals — until the show of Macbeth on the stage of Milan's Piccolo Teatro. A film that lifts the puppeteer's art from the stereotype of a children's genre, revealing a discipline both strict and severe.
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documentary · 47'directed by Pietro de Tilla, Guglielmo Trupia, Elvio Manuzziedited by Guglielmo Trupiamusic Fabio Vacchiproduction Fondazione Milanodistribution Berta Film
Antonio Bergamoni and his family filmed, assembled and scored 9 reels of 8mm film between the 1950s and 60s. One of them, entirely silent, contains a group of strangers perhaps trapped on the wrong film stock. A family has lost its identity and dreams of appropriating another's memories. But who is dreaming whom?
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short film · 25'directed and edited by Guglielmo Trupia · ENECEfilmDOP Antonio Bergamoni, Bergamoni's Familymusic Stefano 'Urkuma' De Santissound supervisor Elisa Piria · ENECEfilmarchive images Cinescatti / Lab80filmproduction ENECEfilm · 'Reframing Home Movies' residency
A mysterious sound recordist seeks contact with the subjects met in a utopic citadel — a place in which improvisation and human interaction are not foreseen. Shot on the outskirts of Expo 2015.
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short film · 14'directed by Guglielmo Trupia · ENECEfilm, Luca Quagliatosound design Elisa Piria · ENECEfilmmusic Stefano 'Urkuma' De Santisproduction ENECEfilm
A film inspired by a poem from 1984 — 'Sottoripa' — found on a market stall in the back streets of Genoa. A chance discovery that brought together the director, a native of Genoa, and the poem's author, the British poet Julian Stannard, to reflect on a city to which both are inextricably bound.
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documentary · 6'50"directed by Guglielmo Trupiawritten by Guglielmo Trupia, Julian Stannardmusic Barrie Bignoldwith Antonio Carletti
Lucio has written an essay about his father, but when forced to show it to him, he is seized by the fear that those words may hurt him.
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drama · 17'directed by Yuri Casagrande Contiedited by Guglielmo TrupiaDOP Antonio Morra · sound Tommaso Barbaroproduction Rosso Film · Yuri Casagrande Conti, Ivan Casagrande Conti, Marco Malfi Chindemi
Set against the backdrop of fascist Italy, a man of means scrutinises the world through his small cine camera. Guiding him is a manual whose seemingly impartial tone conceals the buds of ideology. But in his films, the ineffable signs of resistance still rise to the surface.
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short documentary · 20'directed by Federico di Coratoedited by Guglielmo Trupiaproducer Tommaso Perfettisound editor Giulia La Marcagraphics and animation Sara Gallimusic Enrico Gabrielli for the recording series 19'40"bibliographical research Graziana di Santoscanning of original footage Giulia Castellettivideo post-production Pietro de Tillaassistant editor Anna Lapiccirellamixing Stefano Grosso · graphic design Fabio Scalisubtitles Marianna Silvano · translations Catherine Salbashianwith films from 'Augusto Gandini Collection' (1927–1942), Archivio Cinescatti, Bergamoproduction ENECEfilm in partnership with Lab 80 filmwith the support of Re-framing Home Movies, Vidèadoc
Vivaldi, barely a teenager, is already a former fencing prodigy. Suddenly unable to win, her mother forces her to watch herself on a videocassette. Competitions overwrite the images of the last holiday before the family broke apart. A device malfunction causes the past to resurface as enigmatic fragments — one of them, a film she made as a child, will reveal what had been kept from her.
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short film · 31' · colourdirected by Federico di Coratoedited by Guglielmo Trupiaproduction OKTA Film (Italy), Balade Sauvage Productions (France)distribution OKTA Film
The children who survived the American bombing of a Milan primary school on October 20, 1944, tell journalists Mario Calabresi and Silvia Nucini their story.
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documentary · 52'directed by Luca Quagliatoa film by Mario Calabresi, Silvia Nuciniedited by Guglielmo TrupiaDOP Max Rommelsound Mattia Romanutmusic Luca Micheliassistant editor Jacopo Beniniaudio mix Rachele De Salvocolor grading Anna Lapiccirellacamera operator Pietro De Tilla · assistant Riccardo Tampoiadrone operator Luca Rossiartistic direction Tommaso Perfettiexecutive production Elvio Manuzzi, Tommaso Arrighititles and poster ascionemagroproduction Be Water Film in collaboration with Rai Documentari · ENECEfilm
A portrait of the 1970s in Italy: terrorism, civil rights, the stories and music that marked a decade of transformation and new consciousness.
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TV documentary · 120'directed for television by Luca Quagliatovideo editor and assistant director Guglielmo Trupiafrom the live show by Bruno Fornasariproduction Bewater Live, Will, Chora Media, HeartTV adaptation Bewater Film
A collective film shot across four residential contexts in Bergamo, where a camera traveled from hand to hand and house to house over the course of a year. Residents of four different social housing communities — elderly, young adults with disabilities, families in difficulty, teenagers — were each given a camera and asked simply to film their daily lives. What emerged is a portrait made of gestures: cooking, waiting, playing, resting. The film does not observe from outside; it inhabits. For the screening at Lo Schermo Bianco, the film was accompanied by a live soundtrack composed and performed by Enrico Gabrielli.
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collective film · 2024project by ENECEfilmin collaboration with Fondazione Casa Amica, Cooperativa A.E.P.E.R., Cooperativa Ruah, Generazioni Fa, Il Pugno Apertolive soundtrack Enrico Gabrielliwith support from Fondazione Cariplo
On a sun-drenched July day, a group of teenagers moves from the outer suburbs of Bari towards the sea, along a post-industrial coastline of derelict beach clubs and forgotten ruins. Their day — lived with the crystalline ease of that age, between TikTok dances and ball games, swimming and songs from morning to dusk — becomes an unexpected moment of discovery: an abandoned villa belonging to a vanished painter opens its doors. A film about youth, inheritance, and the sudden encounter with beauty.
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documentary · 42'directed by Fabrizio Bellomoedited by Guglielmo Trupiaphotography Christian Mantuano · sound Domingo Bombiniproduction Associazione I Bambini di Truffaut
An experimental 360° film exploring the dialectic between the humanisation of humanoid machines and the dehumanisation of human beings. The project developed over years of research into labour exploitation, illegal recruitment and the role of new migrants, weaving participants' real-life stories into a circular, immersive narrative. Shown as an installation, the film surrounds the viewer: no single point of view, no safe distance from what is being said.
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360° round-film · 74' · colour · 4K · 2019written and directed by Nico AngiuliDoP and lights design Giuseppe Valentinovideo editing Guglielmo Trupiavisual effects and compositing Raffaele Fiorellasound design Duccio Servi · color Pietro de Tillaoriginal soundtrack Rino Arboreboom operator Nicholas Ferraracostumes Augusta Tibaldeschi, Roberta Vacchetta · make up Daniela Melisexhibition design Alessandro Vangiproject coordinator Juan Esteban Sandovalproduction Andrea Abate, Ilaria Bernardi, Clara Tosettiproject by Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistolettowith Luca Antonello, Eleonora Battaglia, Tatiana Cazzaro, Shahzada Husnain Fiaz, Elena Gugel, Cece Mannazza, Seth Oppong Osuwu, Noemi Ivara, Erica Massaccesi, Graziella Panetta, Kastriot Shehi
A video interweaving historical accounts of political struggle among agricultural workers in southern Italy with the more recent story of a Ghanaian community that has occupied abandoned houses while working in the fields of the Tre Titoli district near Cerignola, Puglia. Participation and documentary merge into a collective form of storytelling across two generations and two continents.
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documentary video · 34' · HD · colour · 2015 directed by Nico Angiuli video editing Guglielmo Trupia curated by Vessel supported by Connecting Cultures · MiBAC · Casa di Vittorio
A music performance that reconfigures the factory floor as a score. Twenty-four musician-workers are divided into rotating teams: eight write music based on a video projected before them, eight perform what the previous group has written, three overseers manage the shifts. The cycle runs for two hours under strict rules. A re-elaboration of the system invented for the film 'Unità di Produzione Musicale'.
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performance · 2015a project by Enrico Gabrielli, Sergio Giusti and ENECEfilmFabbrica Europa, Stazione Leopolda, Florence — May 17, 2015
Milan, April 2015. While the Salone del Mobile celebrates beauty and possibility, anonymous figures move through the city and paste images onto walls — war photographs from Ukraine, the Middle East, a world in pieces. The outside forcing its way in. An instant film about this gesture: brief, silent, irreducible.
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instant film · performance · street art · 2015
A film made for Olivari — the celebrated Italian door handle manufacturer — for the 2017 Milan Design Week. One hundred years of craftsmanship compressed into one hundred seconds: the hands, the metal, the gesture of making.
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corporate film · 100" · 2017 directed by Masiar Pasquali, Guglielmo Trupia edited by Guglielmo Trupia production ENECEfilm
Luciano is serving his sentence at home, between narrow walls and days that never change. His punishment is emptiness — the anguish of a life spent waiting. He sings dramatic, passionate songs that perhaps nobody understands. His parents care for him, and are also his jailers. A young man with the face of a troublemaker, preparing to start all over again.
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short film · 20'directed by Tommaso Perfettiproduction ENECEfilm
Four women, four pregnancies, four stories of motherhood — from Lucy's pregnancy to the first three years of Laura's child, the seven of Sara's, the seventeen of Chicca's daughter. The director searches in observation and dialogue with her friends for the answers to the questions that arise when deciding to become a mother.
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documentary · 90' · 2016 directed by Donatella Di Cicco supervising editor Guglielmo Trupia editor Chiara Tognoli audio editor Giulia La Marca color grading Paolo Romano production ENECEfilm
A pregnancy documented from within the intimacy of the director's family is compromised at week 27. At six months, Anna Mia is born prematurely due to pre-eclampsia, weighing only 740 grams. Three months in neonatal intensive care — progress measured in grams, step by step. The film becomes the means by which the director refuses to lose hope. A primal instinct for life, turned into cinema.
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documentary · 85' · 2021 directed by Donatella Di Cicco assistant editor Guglielmo Trupia editor Tommaso Perfetti audio editors Giulia La Marca, Elisa Piria titles ascionemagro producer Tommaso Perfetti production ENECEfilm
Don Luigi Ciotti travels with two texts under his arm: the Gospels and the Italian Constitution. Together they are the tools of the 'revolution of conscience' he practices every day — a tireless effort to stitch together the healthy parts of Italy, to restore meaning to words like justice, solidarity, and democracy that have been emptied and betrayed. A rebel priest, charismatic and uncompromising, one of the most exposed and at-risk figures in the country.
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TV film · 85' directed by Paolo Santolini editor Jacopo Quadri additional editor and trailer editor Guglielmo Trupia music Billy Martin with Don Luigi Ciotti production Oktafilm
A journey through the geography of the contemporary factory — abandoned plants, mines converted into tourist attractions, Eastern European factories producing Italian cars, industrial towns like Sesto San Giovanni and Lumezzane. Video and audio fragments collected along the way: phone calls, poems, old films, commercials, experimental performances. A single narrative that expands in multiple directions, like the factory itself.
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documentary · 2021directed by Fabrizio Bellomo
A young woman prepares to receive a client in her apartment. The man — a transposition of Don Quijote in 1990s Milan — ritually cleans four rooms with manic precision. The woman eats, reads, paints her nails, dresses and undresses, as if he were not there. Between the two, no exchange: only a choreography of solitude, fetish and obsessive repetition.
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feature film · 64' · 16mm/HD · colour · 2018 directed by Luca Ferri assistant DOP Guglielmo Trupia edited by Chiara Tognoli music Dario Agazzi · costumes Michela Borsotti · scenography Samantha Angeloni with Naomi Morello, Vincenzo Turca, Dario Bacis production ENECEfilm in collaboration with Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti
Liguria is a steep region, squeezed between mountains and sea. Its slopes collapse, its valleys are carved by torrents. The landslide has always been native to this territory — not a catastrophe but a condition, a geological and ontological fact. Those who live here resist the sliding of the soil with tenacity: terracing after terracing, stone after stone, the landscape becomes a vast deposit of human and animal labour. Two forces in permanent dialogue — one pulling downward, one holding on. A film about a landscape in perpetual transformation, where geology and daily life are inseparable.
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documentary · 2025directed by Sofia MerelliWe live in an era in which the image is undergoing a definitive mutation. Not merely a technological shift, but a displacement in the way we perceive reality, time and memory. Against this fluid landscape, this space does not aspire to be a showcase. It is a dynamic archive: a cartography of work undertaken so far — an attempt to decode the present and, above all, to trace the coordinates of possible futures.
Guglielmo Trupia is a filmmaker, editor and educator based in Milan. Co-founder of ENECE Società Cooperativa (2024) and the ENECE collective, active since 2012. His work has been selected at Venice Orizzonti, Locarno, Visions du Réel, Raindance, Filmmaker Festival, Festival dei Popoli and Biografilm, with broadcast on Rai 3, Sky Arte and Discovery Italia / NOVE. He teaches editing at CFP Bauer and at the Master in Journalism at Università Cattolica di Milano.
Rushes and fragments shot since childhood — super8, VHS, miniDV. Films made before knowing what a film was.
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