Alessia Cecchet

Alessia Lupo Cecchet is a maker of moving images, interdisciplinary artist, and writer who grew up in the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy and is now based in Los Angeles, CA. Her practice is situated at the intersection of studio and media arts; Alessia constructs sculptural objects that she then activates through animation, film, and video. Grounded in historical and archival research, her work is invested in human and non-human histories of displacement, loss, and suffering.

In June 2022, Alessia completed her Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, defending her dissertation “Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal Bodies, Death, and Western Culture.” Alessia also holds an MFA in Film from Syracuse University as well as a MA in Film Studies from the University of Bologna, Italy. Her thesis about American Propaganda Animation during WWII won the Franco La Polla prize (Future Film Festival) which awarded its publication as a book.