Rita Casdia was born in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME) in 1977. She graduated painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo in the 2000. Afterwards she moved to Milan, where she continued her study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and achieved a specialization in Art and New Technologies for cinema/video. Her video works have taken part to numerous festival and exhibitions: tina b, the Prague contemporary festival, Trieste Film Festival -Catodica, Videoart Yearbook Bologna, Fisheye, Roma, TO FIND A VIDEO Castello di Rivara, Festival d’images artistique vidéo fiav09, Filmmaker Festival, Milano, 39°Festival du Nouveau Cinéma di Montreal, Premio Ariane de Rothschild 2011, Palazzo Reale, Milano, LOOP –Video Art Festival & Fair, Barcelona, Premio Cairo, Museo della Permanente, Milano, Video.it, Fondazione Merz - Torino