The first thing I do, whenever I return to my family home in Northern Italy, is to empty drawers and closets in my childhood bedroom (still immaculately kept by Mrs.…
Once upon a time, I used to have a blog called “Girl with a Movie Camera” – at first chronicling the post-production of my feature-length film Dove Sei Tu, and…
The weather in Paris has been absolutely terrible for the past week – gray skies, the occasional drizzle, low light... bref, a photographer's nightmare. Experiencing sharp pangs of photography withdrawal…
The area surrounding the François Mitterrand branch of the Bibliothèque nationale de France is one of my favorite sites in all of Paris. It's a sparsely populated, spacious, green, modernist…
I'm trying to turn it into a daily habit: a stroll around Paris with my camera during the "magic hours" when the sun is setting. This weekend I walked around…
On Wednesday night I caught a glimpse of the opening shots of Bertolucci's "Last Tango in Paris" – an iconic film of the 1970s that I had already watched a…
Last Saturday was the Nuit Européenne des Musées (European Evening of Museums): a grand total of 2,200 European museums had special evening hours, staying open till midnight, and offered free…
Read Elena Rossini's About page, which includes her biography and a description of her most notable projects.
The Illusionists
The Illusionists is Elena Rossini's most notable project – a documentary about the dark side of advertising and the marketing of unattainable beauty ideals around the world.
100 Days of Women in Film
A blog series by Elena Rossini that celebrates the careers of unsung heroines from the world of film and television.