Sara Bonaventura is an Italian visual artist and educator, working at the intersection between visual and media arts, lens based media and new media. As an independent videographer she has been collaborating with performers and musicians, directing clips, ads, and curating visuals.

Her video works have been screened worldwide: at the NYC Anthology Film Archives, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival, at the Montreal Nuit Blanche, the Miami New Media Festival, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, at Rome MACRO Museum, the Asolo Art Film Festival, the Cinemateca do MAM in Rio for Dobra Festival, the MOMus in Thessaloniki for Videolands curated by Miden, the Mexico City CODEC festival, Other Cinema at San Francisco ATA Gallery, at L’Alternativa in Barcelona, the LA Echo Park Film Center, the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, the Boston Goethe-Institut with RPM festival etc.

She won the Veneto Region Award at the 10th Lago Film Fest and a 4th prize for the 2019 Sino per NIIO Illumination Art Prizes, with one of her work displayed in one of the world biggest public screen in Hong Kong’s harborfront; she has been selected for several residencies, i.e. in 2016 by Joan Jonas at Fundacion Botin (Santander, Spain). Selected for the ISEA 2019, the International Symposium for Electronic Arts, exhibiting at the National Asian Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea. Finalist for the call Shut up, or rather speak, of La Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2020).

Her debut feature documentary, Forest Hymn for Little Girls, was screened at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and the Ortigia Film Festival among others. Her recent research-based Iconoplast, inspired by scientific models, won the best experimental at the Annual Aarhus Film Festival and at the Melbourne G biennale and has been screened at the COP27 at Sharm El-Sheikh with ikonoTV, at Amsterdam FIBER festival, at Doc.Sydney, at the Copenhagen Nature & Culture festival, at the South Bend Art Museum, at Pleasure Dome in Toronto.

She has been recently selected for several mentoring programs and incubators: the 6 months long PIP of the Institute for Postnatural Studies, the EU co-funded 25AV platform, the Hybrid semester of the Transmedia Research Institute by Umanesimo Artificiale, and the EU co-funded ART4SEA platform and artists-in-residence.