Vito A. Rowlands
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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- Also Known As: Vito Adriaensens
