Born in Genoa in 1975, Marco Cucurnia began to be passionate about the cinema shooting stills among the coal heaps in the port of Genoa and passionately following the dramatically smiling comedy of Mario Monicelli and Dino Risi. His passion led him on a path that already at the age of eighteen led him into the world of Mario Monicelli, working with him then for almost twenty years.
Over the years work and awards, 2006 his first film SOLOMETER took him to the Ajaccio Prize.
Numerous other awards have always accompanied his path in the world of cinema, from the short film of national cultural interest LALIBI in 2008the Kodak Prize in 2004, the Magazine Prize Ciak to the best Italian short film and the First Prize at the Genova film festival 2004.
On 5 September 2016, he presented a tribute to Dino Risi at the Casa del Cinema in Rome. In 2015, the short film 'NIENTE', represented Italy in Mexico City. Other works include Genoa, Amore Mio (documentary film with Paolo Villaggio - 2004 RAI TRE), Mario Monicelli, l'artigiano di Viareggio - portrait - 2001 RAI UNO, premiered in the cineasti del Present at the 2001 Locarno Film Festival.
His is indeed a vision of a different and straightforward cinema, a vision also much rewarded through his numerous works in film and photography, most recently, in 2021, the Photography Awards 2021 for the photographic work 'Mask of her'. And also Best experimental award NYNG for "Café Crème avant d'entrer" Best experimental film- Five Continets international film festival Venezuela for "Zone d'attente" Best experimental film - Silk Road Film Award Cannes 2020 for "Dedicated to cinema".
And again the awards: Honorable Mention of the Berlin Flash Film Festival 2020 for 'To Tornatore with love', Outstanding Achievement Berlin Flash Film Festival 2020 for 'Antivirusface', Honorable Mention of the Berlin Flash Film Festival 2020 for 'Emral' Honorable Mention MonoVisions Photography, Award for the photographic work 'Differita'.
We met him and asked him what cinema is.
And he answered us like this:
"I thought about what I would have answered in second grade: the cinema is that place where there are films. Those things that are inside the cinema. The cinema, for me, is a place. If my father had not taken me there, I would be much more melancholic than I already am. Nowadays you can also see films on your mobile phone, but I don't care. After all, man has also invented the electronic cigarette, cardboard wine and the electric scooter. True filmmakers have made it so that there are two lives for each of us. Then we choose. My grandmother once asked me: but when you see a dream in the cinema, do they really have to realise it? And I still think about this question... I think the concept of cinema is linked to the dreams and memories of each one of us, to that extremely intimate and personal place where our whole story is written, made up of experiences and memories, often made up of a melancholy and nostalgia that is all our own. No one must iron the wrinkles of my memory, no one must touch my nostalgia"..
