What is the best thing I like about my job? My work I could describe with three verbs: love, observe and create. A game of action that revolves around me. Take a detail in the world to enlarge it through my eyes and my photographic lens and tell it. Stories that generate stories in those who look at them. In Naples, my motherland is called “craft” and makes it all the more passionate, tiring in its beauty.

What is my idea of perfect happiness? Happiness? Make a film.

What is my great fear? Do not be really me. Do not be able to bring my idea of art and cinema into what I do.

What is the trait that deplores me in myself? I would like to increase my ability to tolerate stress and fatigue in relationships. I am a very passionate and full of life that requires the utmost and sometimes disappointed.

What people live in my profession I admire? My mentor, who saw me grow up, followed me through the studies and helped mature. My sister: a mother, a strong woman and an artist. Peter, who believes in me and who has always given me the strength to devote myself totally to this work. To my friends, colleagues with whom I hope to do great things.

What is my greatest extravaganza? In some fragments of my life I love to get out of the world and stand alone with myself. I also travel in mental travels where I recover my strength and talk to me.

In what occasion would I have lied? I lied at times to not hurt who I was in front of. Little lies about the good.

What is the thing I do not like the most in my work? When my work is not recognized and appreciated as it should. Especially badly paid because it is not considered a qualified profession. There is no valuation equilibrium in Italy.

When and where was the happiest, in my work? The work in my heart still, after so long, remains “The Artist”, my first job. https://vimeo.com/174968277

If I could, what would I change about me? I would change my pessimism, which sometimes takes over.

What is my greatest success in the job? I think I still have to reach it. There were some great goals I hope are the bricks with which I’m building my way to great success.

Where would I prefer to live? I would like to live in Africa, passing Hollywood first, certainly, the dream of the little girl who is in me. Earlier I wanted to go to Australia, I repeated that the sky looks closer and the stars are almost touching you.

What is my most treasured possession? My greatest treasure is the image, the one that takes you behind you or by chance and drags you into the composition of it itself.

What is my most striking feature? Determining what I do. I’m very tough with myself and I’m so grateful for what I do.

What is my most inspirational position in my city? When I create I like to go to the island of Elba, the island in which I grew up and always give me strong emotions.

What is my favorite place to eat and drink in my town? I love eating pizza, any place where pizza works in the wood oven is fine and make good fried and of course the sweet is never missing!

What books influenced my life and how? Federico Fellini “Making a movie” Einaudi.

Who are my favorite writers? Charles Bukowski.

Only one time. What music would I listen to on my last day? A song by Damien Rice.

Who is my hero or heroine in fiction? In my fantasy my hero is Peter Pan who takes me on the island that is not there.

Who are my heroes and heroines in real life? In my real life my heroine is my sister Lucia. She followed me, pampered, supported, and endured. She has been present in the toughest moments but also the most beautiful, if she is happy, I am also.

What movies do I recommend to see once in a lifetime? Eight and a half by Federico Fellini.

What role does the art play in my life and my work? Art is constantly around me while I’m in the subway, on the bus, I’m constantly around or at least it’s in my head.

Who is my biggest fan, sponsor, partner of crime? I do not think I have fans. Maybe I’m hidden in my dreams or nightmares.

Who would I work in 2017? I would love to work with Paolo Sorrentino, stand on his set to observe it. Its kind of language is very similar to mine, I find myself in its stylistic and narrative choices, in its colors and types of framing cuts.

What people in my profession would like to meet in 2017? I’d like to meet people who talk about cinema, I would.

What project, in 2017, can I wait to work? I am working on my own personal project, I would like to try to break away from my story and myself because it confuses me with being attached to my being, trying to tell my story that it is for me because of my fiction.

Where can you see me or my work in 2017?
You can find my job here: https://martinamonaco.myportfolio.com/

What creative heroines should invite Peter to tell their story? Peter was a beautiful discovery, gave me the opportunity to tell me about my freedom and purity, with patience, gave me the opportunity to know even more and thank you.
Peter could accommodate so many other boys and girls like me who have so much passion and courage towards this trade and dedication in carrying it out with all their own crises and successes albeit small.

How can you contact me?
You can contact me on my site where you will also find some of my works: https://martinamonaco.myportfolio.com/