PENELOPE CORINALDESI
Director, Researcher, Image-maker and Editor
email: penelopecorinaldesi@hotmail.com
Instagram: @penelope.corinaldesi

I am a London-based visual artist and filmmaker working between documentary, experimental cinema, and research-led practice. My work explores how personal and shared histories surface in urban and domestic spaces. I approach events as existing in an aesthetic realm, using filmmaking, the screen, and other media not only as vessels of transmission but as tools for questioning violence, intergenerational trauma, and the politics of space. Through investigative reconstructions, mixed documentary strategies, and multimedia layering, I attempt to expand what visual media can do.

I studied Social Anthropology (BSc) and City Design (MSc) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and hold an MA in Performance: Screen from Central Saint Martins (UAL). This academic grounding shapes my approach to film and visual research, allowing me to move fluidly between ethnographic observation, theory, and practice - without ever fully leaving one behind.


CV
WORK
CORPO-DE-OBRA
TWO CHANNEL//INSTALLATION_2026

Corpo-de-obra (Body-of-work) is a two-channel documentary installation following four workers in Trancoso, Bahia, a former fishing village which over the past fifteen years has been transformed by tourism, land speculation and high-end development. The work was born from a desire to understand this change through the people who physically shape and sustain the landscape.

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DIRECTOR
RESEARCHER
EDITOR

Wu-Lu and POiSON ANNA - KING KONG (Official Video)
MUSIC VIDEO_2026

Directed by Ayomide Tejuoso and Tobi Tejuoso for Wu-Lu & POiSON ANNA's "King Kong," taken from their collaborative EP Bakerz Dozen (Warp Records, 2026). I led the art department as Head of Art Department, overseeing props and set design, and co-edited the offline cut alongside director Tobi Tejuoso. Shot by DP Brandon St Catherine, with overall creative direction by Tobi Tejuoso.

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 Set Designer
Co-Editor
TERRAIN
FILM_2025

Terrain is a movement-based experimental short film set over a condensed period of time in Trancoso, Brazil, where I grew up. Once a small fishing village, Trancoso has seen its relationship to land shift — from soil to property — under the pressures of tourism and real estate.

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DIRECTOR
RESEARCHER
EDITOR
IT TAKES TWO
THREE CHANNEL//INSTALLATION_2025

It Takes Two to Make an Accident and Three Screens to Fail to Represent It touches on the difficulty and absences present in the representation of traumatic events. This specific piece focuses on an event which happened in my childhood, when my mother suffered a home accident within the larger context of domestic violence. The piece struggles with how we can verbalise, and visualise violence without furthering its effects.

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DIRECTOR
RESEARCHER
EDITOR
  FREEHOLD
MAGAZINE_2025

Freehold is an independent publication about cities, bringing together academia, poetry, prose and the visual arts. It is a chorus of voices gathered to create a multivocal investigation of urban life — a space where different forms of knowledge, experience and imagination can congregate.

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CO-FOUNDER
CO-EDITOR
BRING UP THE EARTH
FILM_2025

Bring Up the Earth is a work that meditates on the exclusionary and selective practices embedded in core–periphery relations of production and consumption in the city of London, using the frame as both material and metaphor.

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CO-DIRECTOR
RESEARCHER
EDITOR
FEATHERBONES
EXPERIMENTAL_DOCUMENTARY_2025

Featherbones follows four women filmmakers entering London's Smithfield Meat Market at night — a male-dominated space where access isn't guaranteed. Shot guerrilla-style, the film documents negotiations over who belongs, who gets to film, and what it costs women to enter spaces built on masculine labour and legacy.

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CO-DIRECTOR
RESEARCHER
EDITOR


BITTER SLEEP
DOCUMENTARY_2024

Directed by Brandon St. Catherine, Bitter Sleep is a documentary rooted in oral history, shaped by the urgent need to record lived testimony in the absence of a robust archival record on the island of Montserrat.

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DoP
RESEARCHER
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