Alberto Redighieri

Filmmaker. Builder. Storyteller.

Alberto Redighieri works across documentary storytelling, AI-generated video, institutional production, net art and code. From intimate personal films to commissioned work for universities and EU grant projects — and, lately, images made entirely with generative AI that could never otherwise be shot.

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Documentary — personal films

L'origine della specie

Documentary

An intimate chronicle of my encounters over several months with the former leader of Banda XXII Ottobre, one of Italy's first armed militant groups, based in Genoa.

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Il Pelèr

Essay Film

An essay film about unemployment, province, family, and rage. A necessary reckoning with where I stood at a specific moment in my life.

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L'Immobile

Short DocumentaryFaito Doc Festival · Culture Unplugged · Fondazione Milano

In a remote mountain village, an unknown disaster has erased all human presence. A camera moves through what remains while a woman's voice wanders between memory and the present.

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Milanin Milanon

Documentary

A documentary production for the University of Milan exploring the city's identity and memory. Role: general producer and camera operator.

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AI Video — no actors, no cameras

The Satanic Verses

AI Short Film

Imagining the opening of Salman Rushdie's novel as film — two men falling from an exploding plane, one becoming an angel, the other a devil. Made entirely with generative AI (Seedance 2.0).

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Otrebla

AI Short Film

A tragicomic short on the inner shadow and self-sabotage, built through a generative-AI pipeline. Directed and produced by Alberto Redighieri.

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Work — commissioned & institutional

ERC Grant — Stefano Forte

Institutional DocumentaryUniversità degli Studi di Milano

A documentary portrait of physicist Stefano Forte and his EU-funded research on the structure of matter.

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The Balkan Echo

Commissioned DocumentarySFERA International · EU Grant Project

A documentary commissioned as part of a European grant project on art and culture in the Balkans.

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Code & Net Art — things built in code

FlagByte Palestine

Net Art · Ongoing

One pixel per day. 365 days. The Palestinian flag rebuilt one pixel at a time on Instagram, with a physical installation concept for cultural venues.

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Chaos Chess

Interactive · Web

A chess variant where pieces randomly reshuffle after every move. Play against Stockfish, running entirely in the browser. Built and deployed independently.

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ChromeChain

Data Visualization · Web

A Bitcoin blockchain visualizer. Each block becomes a colored pixel by XOR-ing its SHA-256 hash bytes across three groups — R, G, B — producing vivid, deterministic colors. 952 pages, ~951,000 blocks from 2009 to today.

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About

I tell stories with whatever medium the story needs — film, generative AI, or code.

Ten years directing documentaries — intimate personal films, institutional portraits, EU-funded productions — taught me that the story comes first and the tool comes second. Lately that tool is often generative AI: not a shortcut, but a way to shoot images no camera ever could.

The same instinct pushes me into code — building the things I imagine rather than waiting for someone else to. A chess engine, a Bitcoin visualizer, an ongoing net-art project: different mediums, same question — what's the truest way to show this?

Selected credits

Faito Doc FestivalOfficial selection — "L'Immobile"
Culture UnpluggedOfficial selection — "L'Immobile"
Fondazione MilanoScreening — "L'Immobile"
Università degli Studi di MilanoERC Grant documentary, Milanin Milanon & institutional productions
SFERA InternationalEU grant project — "The Balkan Echo"
Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreInstitutional production