Vito A. Rowlands

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Vito A. Rowlands (né Adriaensens, Antwerp, 1986) is a Belgian filmmaker and scholar. His feature script "Elvis, We Like Your Music" was a finalist at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival Development Track and his award-winning shorts have played around the world at venues such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Vienna Shorts, Aesthetica, the Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Raindance, the Brooklyn Film Festival, HollyShorts, Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova, and Nitehawk Shorts. Vito has taught in Amsterdam, Brussels, and Copenhagen, as well as at Columbia University. He is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a 16mm film instructor at Mono No Aware in Brooklyn. He is a co-author of "Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema" and the author of "Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: The Art of Early European Cinema." His first feature is the Metamorphoses-inspired 35mm anthology film "Ovid, New York" (2024). He is currently in pre-production on his second feature: a silent, nineteenth-century set spiritualist thriller.

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KNOWN FOR

Relax with Draco

2021

Ovid, New York

2024

For Satan: The Convert's Guide to Häxan; being tidbits, tangents & trivialities by its author, esteemed connoisseur of the kinematograph, dr. Vito Adriaensens

2024

Leaf Peeper

2026

Into the Silver Ether

2020

Twilight Triptych

2020

FILMOGRAPHY

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