Tommaso Muzzi (8 September 1981) spent the first 18 years of his life in Foligno, in Italy’s so called “green hearth” Umbria region. Between 2004 and 2005 he was at the “Complutense University” (Madrid – Spain) with a 9 months Erasmus exchange scholarship. During this time he focused on experimental cinematography and audio—visual productions, and he filmed his first long movie A Luglio Ritorno (I’ll Be Back in July). The movie is a pseudo- –self biographic cine—documentary on the Erasmus students’ lifestyle.In 2007 he graduated in “Communication Sciences” from the University of Perugia (Italy), with a dissertation on cine—documentary film. In early 2008 he was based in Barcelona, where he had the chance to get involved with the Catalan independent cinematography milieu. Here he learned about the so called “creative documentary” that is an anthropological Malinowskian style of filming: according to this methodology and for the sake of authenticity, film—makers become one thing with the context of the story. He adopted this approach between June and December 2008, when he volunteered in a foster home for mental health inpatients in Italy. Here he directed the documentary Benvenuto Signor Nessuno (Welcome Mr Nobody), and he worked side by side with people affected by either mild or severe forms of mental suffering.Starting in January 2009 he attended a 6 months Master in Digital Cinematography and New Media, by ECAM (Community of Madrid School of Audio—Visual and Cinematography) and “Ray Juan Carlos University”. In July 2009 he went to Uganda as his movie A Luglio Ritorno was selected for a festival in Kampala; the festival was among the GSItalia association initiatives for the project “Young and Active Citizenship” funded by EACEA.Between August and September he directed “Scacciadiavoli”: a documentary about the rural life and memories of Italian farmers and wine producers. In December he went to Taiwan and he took part in the “Hweilan International Artists Workshop”, involving a team of international artists with the purpose of producing contemporary art installations. He was responsible for the audio—visual part of the workshop. He decided to stay in Taiwan for a year, during which he learned about indigenous/Austronesian culture. He worked within indigenous communities and he directed a few short documentaries: During 2010 he also travelled around Eastern Asia in countries including China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Cambodia, Singapore, where he filmed repertoire contents, and he started to write the movie Stileliberty. From December 2010 he had been working almost exclusively in Umbria (Italy) on Stileliberty, until the movie was finally ready in January 2014.He is currently working on a project called Here We Are, focusing onSince 2015 he live in Hualien city on the east coast Taiwan, working on a film-documentary named –NiiNami- (Here we are) focus on the cultures of local indigenous peoples.It still in the production phase.
He currently collaborates with the main Taiwan east coast contemporary art and land-art festivals such as Mipaliw, Living Art Festival and Taiwan EastCoast festival, producing documentaries and promotion films. Between 2017 and 2019 he exhibited in the most important museums of Taiwan, respectively in MOCA Taipei with the opera -Casi Humani- and in the museum of Taitung (National Museum of Prehistory) and in that of Kaoshiung (Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts )in the Gyeonggi Museum of modern art (South Korea) and at the photography festival “Castelnuovo Fotografia”, with the installation named “K-Fragment”. On October 5 –  2019 with a video-installation named “Tribum” take part at the “Original Living Art Fest”  in Hualien City (R.O.C), a work focused on the culture and landscape of Umbria (Italy).

In 2020 He presents “A-Ken The Last of the Savages” documentary A-ken / 王 庚 (虛擬 人物), a reference figure of the new Taiwanese underground culture, who passed away at the end of 2019 and with whom he held a deep friendship.

In 2021, Dungku Asang, an environmentalist documentary, filmed on a serpentinite quarry at 1200 meters above sea level close to the Taiwanese Rift Valley, was released. The project won the award for best documentary and best editing at the Hualien film festival (花蓮鐵道電影院) and best photography at the Senao festival (2022神腦原鄉踏查紀錄片競賽－得獎公告) and in 2024 it was selected for the “Taiwan Film Festival in Australia”.

In 2021 a collaboration began with the television station TITV (Taiwan Indigenous Television) for the creation of a documentary on the traditional hunting of the Seddiq-Truku taiwan indigenous tribe. In September 2023, the film received 4 nominations at the TEEFF film festival dedicated to the environment and won the award for best editing, and was selected in three categories, including best director, at the 2023 Golden Bell awards, the annual award for Taiwanese television and radio production, winning the award for best sound setting. In 2024 he received the nomination for best director at the Asian TV Awards and won the Silver Remi Awards at the 5th Huston Worldfest.

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Tommaso Muzzi（8/9/1981）在意大利翁布里亞度過了他的前18年。在2004年至2005年間，他在“Complutense大學”（馬德里 – 西班牙）與伊拉斯姆斯交換獎學金9個月。在此期間，他專注於實驗電影。 2007年，他畢業於意大利佩魯賈大學的“傳播科學”，獲得紀錄片的畢業論文。 2008年，他自願在意大利心理健康住院病人家中指導紀錄片“Welcome Mr Nobody”。從2009年開始，他參加了ECAM電影學院數學攝影7個月的碩士學位。 2009年7月，他去了烏干達，因為他的電影“Luglio Ritorno”被選為坎帕拉的一個節日。十二月，他去台灣參加了一場國際藝術家團體“Hweilan國際美術家研討會”。 2010年，他也在東亞各地旅行。從2010年12月起，他一直在意大利Stileliberty工作，直到電影準備在2014年。他曾在台灣TEClandart節作為他的所有版本的電影製作人，目前正在開展一個名為Here We Are- NiiNami的項目，重點是條件來自太魯閣山區的土著台灣婦女，特別是傳統的編織技術。他住在意大利和台灣之間。

從2017年到2019年間開始在各地美術館以錄像裝置的方式參加展出，“人絕”是對台灣原住民社會問題議題的關注，而“k-fragment”是關於影像照片與2D動畫結合的裝置,  “Tribum”, 是關於Umbria文化的藝術式紀錄影片目前正在台灣展出。