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Martina Amati (born 14 May 1969) is an Italian BAFTA winning filmmaker and artist. Her work is known for underwater and gravity defying scenes.
Martina Amati was born on 14 May 1969 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for A'Mare (2008), I Do Air (2009) and The Last King of Scotland (2006). She has been married to Charles Steel since 2004.
Martina Amati, born in Milan, Italy in 1969, is an Italian BAFTA-winning filmmaker and artist. She lives and works in London. Amati studied in Milan, Italy, at the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera. Upon graduation Amati’s work was selected for the first Salon Primo di Brera.
In this immersive work artist and BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Martina Amati returns to her artistic roots to express her passion for freediving: the act of swimming underwater on a single breath of air without artificial aid.
Mar 22, 2018 · Martina Amati is a film-maker and artist based in London. Many of her films study the human body crystallised in movement, and the limits of its strength and fragility. She grew up close to the sea in Italy, and water is a recurring theme in her work.
Submission is a mini film – the result of a collaboration between Bella Freud and film maker Martina Amati. Martina is the BAFTA award-winning director of three short films: A’Mare, I Do Air and Chalk. Submission is set in the world of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu where you learn to use your opponent’s strength to vanquish them.
Sep 30, 2022 · BAFTA award-winning filmmaker and artist Martina Amati (pictured) has unveiled her latest project at London’s Ambika P3 gallery, an immersive, multi-screen installation on the art of freediving. (Image credit: Daan Verhoeven)
Martina Amati is a film-maker and artist based in London. Many of her films study the human body crystallised in movement, and the limits of its strength and fragility. She grew up close to the sea in Italy, and water is a recurring theme in her work.
Martina Amati brings her love of freediving to the film Under (Depth). Using only a single breath, she swims down into the ocean: ‘I let go of everything and enter a totally new world where I need to find my stillness in order to consume as little oxygen as possible. It is a form of meditation’.
Oct 3, 2015 · Martina Amati sweeps you away into the mysterious realm of the freediver in her mesmerising multiscreen installation Under. Here is a beguiling world: dreamy and It’s an entrancing...
