Bio
Mirko Aretini is a writer, director, video artist present in various collections and music composer under the pseudonym of "Xanadù Kane".
He was born in Lugano on 24 December 1984. As an author of documentary films he shot "Iceartland" (2012) set in Iceland, which was followed by "Poetico Respiro" (2014) and "Full Metal mind" (2017). He has been able to collaborate with artists such as Sigur Ros, Patty Smith, Philip Glass, Vinicio Capossela, Paolo Villaggio, Gino Strada, Alessandro Bergonzoni, Pierpaolo Capovilla, Alessandro Haber, Daniele Finzi Pasca, Francesco Tesei, Mogol, Goran Bregovich and many others.
He is currently working on the documentary transposition of "Why the Swiss are smarter" freely based on the book by Jacopo Fo and Rosaria Guerra (produced by IFDUIF, like all the other document-films) and various projects.
For EIC Edizioni he has written 2 books, both collections of short stories:
"The Wings of Nothing" (2009)
"The blindness of dreams (2012)
"All you can read" is his third book, closer to the novel although divided into two clear different narrative segments.
Filmography
SRG SSR - Stories (RSI LA1)
Producer Michael Beltrami
IFDUIF Film External Procurement
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
A Father (2020) Author and director
Look at me I'm not there (2021) Author and director
Me and Her, Story of Me (2022) Author and director
Knight Delpho (2023) Author and director
So Distant, So Close (2023) Author and director
SRG SSR - Pacte de l'audiovisuel
Production Silvana Bezzola
Producer Silvano Repetto IFDUIF Film
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Artist My Way (2023) Writing, Photography & Editing
APP - ARTE PENSIERI PRODUZIONI
Christian Marinotti : 25 years of books (2022) Direction and editing
Remembering Max Huber (2024, in production) Writing, directing and editing
IFDUIF FILM
Iceartland (2012) Writing, directing and editing
Poetico Respiro (2014) Writing, directing and editing
Full metal mind (2016) Writing, directing and editing
Why the Swiss are smarter (2019) Writing, directing and editing