Silvia Siberini is a philosopher, Orientalist, and documentary filmmaker.
Since 2001 she has worked in the field of visual arts, documentary filmmaking, mural painting, photography, and publishing, directing the Artsh.it project and collaborating with artists such as BLU (Muto, Big Bang Big Boom). She took part in the documentary Megunica (2008) and, as a director, signed La Pietà del Vento (2014) and Tutto è in fiamme (2016), presented in over 40 international festivals and installations.
In 2023 she made Il Padiglione sull’Acqua, a documentary on the poetic and aesthetic relationship between Carlo Scarpa and Japan, presented at the Biografilm Festival, winner of the Asolo Film Festival 2025 in the Film sull’Arte (feature film) section, and distributed theatrically in Italy and abroad.
She is currently collaborating with the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna on a documentary about architecture in the Apennines of the Bologna area. Since 2024 she has been developing a new project, Nessun Luogo è Deserto, a documentary on the Portuguese architect Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira and on Portuguese poetry.