Ilaria Pezone

Ilaria Pezone serves as a Professor at the Academy of Bologna, teaching across multiple departments including Painting Visual Arts, Fashion Design, Photography, and Cinema and Audiovisual Languages. Her academic work centers on the evolution of audiovisual technologies and the conceptual framework of proximity cinema.

Pezone holds a Master's degree in Cinema and Video from the Brera Academy. Her educational background informs her interdisciplinary approach to audiovisual media, blending historical film techniques with contemporary digital practices.

Her research explores the intersection of personal craftsmanship and digital abundance, particularly through the lens of proximity cinema – a concept she developed that merges pre-existing archival materials with individual artistic expression. This work spans

• Experimental and amateur film traditions
• Non-fiction cinema techniques
• Audiovisual language evolution from analog film to 4K digital
• Local cinema practices and cultural contexts
• Neuroscientific perspectives on cinematic empathy
• Historical analysis of film formats (35mm, 16mm, Super8, DV)

Her scholarship emphasizes the relationship between technical mastery and content creation rather than purely technical instruction.

Pezone maintains regular office hours (Wednesday 10:30 AM-4:30 PM, shifting to Monday in second semester) and requires students to possess audiovisual recording equipment. Her teaching methodology combines frontal lectures with hands-on laboratory work, culminating in student-produced videos.