Since 2008, he has taught at Università Iuav di Venezia, where he founded the Documentary film laboratory and was the scientific coordinator of the doctoral research area in Visual, performative and fashion arts. After a degree in Architecture from Florence, a doctorate in History and philology of cinema at the University of Bologna and a post-doctorate at the University of Rome 3, he is part of the group of authors contributing to the rebirth of Italian documentary film with a strong commitment in theory - in books such as “Storia del documentario italiano”, “Recycled cinema”, “Documentary as art” – education (at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography, DAMS of Roma3, University Paris 8 and the University of Quebec in Montréal), curatorial (with Villa Medici, the Audiovisual Archive of the Workers' Movement, the Cinémathèque québécoise, the M9 Museum in Mestre... ) and production - in documentaries such as “Appunti romani”, “Il senso degli altri”, “Predappio in Luce”, “Profughi a Cinecittà”, “Cinema grattacielo”, presented in national and international festivals. Recently he has hosted “Corto reale. The Italian Documentary Years”, a television series for RAI Storia, and is part of the team - with Studio Azzurro and others - designing the Fellini Museum in Rimini. His latest book is “Fellini's Italy. Images, landscapes, forms of life” (2021). In 2022 he was awarded the Minister of Culture Prize for art criticism from Accademia dei Lincei in the presence of President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella.