Gaia Marinese is an emerging filmmaker based between Paris and Roma. Her practice centers on analog cinema, working primarily with super 8 film. In her films she explores recurring themes such as oneiric spaces ad the threshold between dreams and reality, the fragility of girlhood, memory, love and family, solitude and absence, with soft but rich and curated images. Alongside filmmaking she explores photography, collage, music, fashion, painting and drawing, developing a multidisciplinary approach that moves fluidly between image, material, and narrative. She holds a bachelor's degree in Art History from the Sorbonne in Paris, where she specialized in contemporary art with a focus on photography and cinema history. She went on to pursue a master’s degree in Fine Arts and Cinema, specializing in moving image and creative processes. Since 2023, she has been active in the film industry, she started working in camera rentals then went on to work as a camera assistant on multiple film productions, and writing and directing her own short movies.