Mathery is the Italian directing duo Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli, whose background in design and photography forms the foundation of a bold, visual storytelling practice. Based between Milan and Brooklyn, the pair craft surreal, color-saturated worlds that transform everyday life into cinematic experiences infused with irony, humor, and meticulous art direction. They have lived in Australia and the US, which became their home for 8 years, after winning Young Guns. Their art work has been exhibited internationally, from Europe to Asia and at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. In film, Mathery has charted a nontraditional trajectory. Fiber Affair short premiered on Nowness and was shortlisted by the Berlin Commercial International Film Festival, while The Artists’ Room featuring Emma Laird (The Brutalist, Mayor of Kingstown) opened the OFFF Festival and Blue or Green was screened at the Chelsea film Festival. Their most recent project, The Cranberry Effect, marks their debut in narrative filmmaking. Mathery’s branded films for clients such Samsung, Ikea, Amex, Delta, Facebook.. have earned multiple awards and international recognition. Their work fuses design precision with cinematic imagination, each frame a portal to a world both familiar and profoundly strange, filled with mystery, irony, and poetic subversion.

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