Teresa Castro is an Associate Professor in Film and Audiovisual Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Trained in history and art history, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Musée du quai Branly and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. A significant part of her recent research focuses on plant life forms in visual culture, as well as the connections between cinema, photography, environment, and ecology. In this context, she published The Mediated Plant (E-flux, 2019) and co-edited, with Perig Pitrou and Marie Rebecchi, the collective volume Puissance du végétal et cinéma animiste. La vitalité révélée par la technique (Dijon, Presses du réel, 2020).

She also works on feminist film theory and contributed to the collective book Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image (MIT Press, 2022). She wrote the introduction to the French edition of Laura Mulvey’s collected texts, Au-delà du plaisir visuel. Féminisme, énigmes, cinéphilie (Mimésis, 2017)

He is currently working with artist Leandro Erlich on a major project called the ReefLine, which will  revitalize the coral reef through art. The submerged reincarnation of Leandro Erlich’s celebrated  “Order of Importance (2019),” will install a life-size, traffic jam of concrete car modules for sealife  to colonize, creating a new marine environment for generations to come. 

Castoriano is also working in partnership with Luciana Brito Galeira of São Paulo, to promote  interdisciplinary dialogue and commerce between Brazil and the world, through artistic connection. 

He has directed several short films for contemporary artists and brands such as Romina de Novellis,  Youssef Nabil, Mastercard, Casa Cipriani NYC and Milano. His latest short film, “Carlos Gómez  Centurión: I Say Mercedario” premiered at the acclaimed International Festival of Films on Art (Le  FIFA) in Montreal in March of 2023.