Marina Pellanda graduated with a degree in literature from the University of Ca’ Foscari of Venice with a thesis on Andrei Tarkovskij. In 1999 she was awarded with a MURST study grant for young researchers for her research project entitled Spazio e tempo nel cinema.  She has participated in specialised course, round tables, and critical writing workshops on the subject of cinema, as well as in various conferences (including, the International Conference of Research on Andrej Tarkovskij, held in Venice, 2003).

She has worked in collaboration with the Biennale of Venice International Film Festival and with the «Circuito Cinema» of the City of Venice, and also curated the exhibition Cinema e città tra America e Europa in 2001. She completed a masters degree in Theatre and Multimedia from the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice in 2003. The following year she was in charge of the archival research for the book Venezia è una città. Un secolo di interpretazioni del cinema documentario, published by Marsilio. Since 2003 she has taught at and collaborated with the Faculty of Arts and Design of the University Iuav of Venice.

 

Among her publications:

 

A spasso per i labirinti con Kubrick in F. Borin (edited by), The Kubrick After. Influssi e contaminazioni sul cinema contemporaneo, Padua, Il Poligrafo 1999.

 

La macchina da presa dalla parte dei registi vietnamiti, «Venezia Arti», Journal of the Department of Art History and Criticism  «Giuseppe Mazzariol» of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, n°13, 1999, Rome, Viella 2001.

 

Andrej Tarkovskij tra un violino e due alberi. Il rullo compressore e il violino, in « AAM TAC Arts and Artifacts in Movie Technology, Aesthetics, Communication», International Journal n.1, Pisa-Rome, Publishing Institutes and International Printing 2004.

 

Venezia è una città. Un secolo di interpretazioni del cinema documentario in L. Ciacci (edited by  L. Ciacci), Venezia: la singolarità di un soggetto mutevole, Venice, ed. Marsilio 2004.