Born in Torino, Italy, Stefano Canapa lives and works in Paris since 1999. He has been active in the field of analog cinema and its possibilities since the late 90s. He is part of Z.U.R (Zona Utópicamente Reconstituida), a collective of artists devoted to visual arts, theater and cinema, he is also an active member of the artist-run lab L’ Abominable and in 2007 he founded, together with Yoana Urruzola, the LIC, Laboratorio de Investigación Cinematográfica, in Montevideo. Since the early 2000 his work is affiliated to different cinema fronts: installation, films and film performances, works that have been present in a number of international festivals (from Locarno to Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Toronto, Marsella or Cinéma du Réel, among many others), and that form an investigation in progress around the particularities of the analog film format together with sonic arts.