CREATIVE STUDIO

CLIENT WORK | JOURNALISM

CREATIVE PRACTICE

WRITING | FILM

CURRENTLY WORKING ON

  • SHORT FILM: TOPOS, A POETIC DOCUMENTARY

    Releasing a poetic documentary exploring ancestral landscapes, cultural identity and topographies of the Mediterranean.

  • FOOD JOURNALISM: VAL D'ORCIA & TERRONI

    Research, interviewing, script writing & audio production for 2 upcoming radio profiles for Monocle’s The Menu.

  • WRITING: MY MOTHER'S CLOSET

    A personal essay about my relationship with my late mother through our interactions with clothes, for fashion journal Vestoj.

  • LOCATION PROFILE: VENICE CRAFT

    Investigating the relationship between Venice’s crafts and Carnival, and the hidden artisans of a city visited by many but known by few.

ABOUT ISSABELLA

I AM A FILMMAKER, WRITER, ARTIST, and COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT obsessed with our roots: heritage, craft, personal histories, mythology, human relationships with places, and the stories behind arts & culture.

THROUGH MY CREATIVE STUDIO, AETIA, I bring a thoughtful, layered approach to profiling art & artists, creatives, craft, cultures, places and communities. My work with clients and on journalistic projects investigates the art of real life - through culture, craft, creative people and their processes - and the life behind art - the people, processes, meanings, and experiences that give a work its power.

IN MY CREATIVE PRACTICE, I make films and write editorials & poetry following similar themes; exploring how the past shapes and remains tethered to our present lives through mythology, self-understanding and the supernatural.