He studied music in Milan and philosophy in Bologna. Since 1998, he has contributed to the daily newspaper il manifesto, writing primarily for its weekly supplement Alias. From 1999 to 2021, he was among the writers of the Rai 3 television programme Fuori Orario cose (mai) viste. He has also made several short experimental films.
For many years, he wrote about cinema for the magazine filmcritica and the weekly publication nòva / il sole 24 ore, while contributing a monthly column to the rock magazine Blow Up.
In 2013, he co-authored Atlante sentimentale del cinema per il XXI secolo with Alberto Momo, with whom he founded Zomia in 2015, a company that has distributed films by Lav Diaz, Pedro Costa, Tariq Teguia and Julio Bressane in Italy and across Europe. The book won the Limina / FilmTV Award for Best Cinema Book of the Year.
He has collaborated as a producer with Amir Naderi, Jean-Marie Straub and Enrico Ghezzi, and as an actor with Tonino De Bernardi, Ado Arietta and Amos Gitai.
For television, he directed two episodes (the first and the last) of the miniseries Zaum – andare a parare, broadcast on Rai 3 in 2011.
He co-wrote the screenplay for Monte (2016), directed by Amir Naderi, which received an award at the Venice International Film Festival and was selected among the “Contenders 2016” at MoMA in New York.
He is co-artistic director of the cross-border festival Poklon Visij – Omaggio a una visione, held in Gorizia and Nova Gorica.
