Self-taught filmmaker, cinematographer, editor and photographer, Pascal Greco is Swiss & Italian and lives in Geneva.
At the end of 2017, Pascal Greco presented Shadow at the LU in Nantes and at the GIFF in Geneva, a magnetic, intense and hypnotic film with actress Asia Argento and her daughter Anna-Lou Castoldi, that he codirected with Philippe Pellaud. The movie had excellent reviews in media like Numéro, Le Courrier, Le Matin Dimanche or La Repubblica. Shadow is now available, since March 2022, in free access on Vimeo.
Greco is finishing is first feature length documentary called The Scavengers on the elderly, in Hong Kong, with insufficient or no retirement to cover their basic needs and expenses, and who, to meet their needs, collect all day long, paper, cardboard or sagex, to resell them by the kilo at a ridiculous price. A first version of the film was presented in the FIFDH | International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, in Geneva in 2019. In 2008, Pascal Greco directed Super 8, a poetic and psychedelic movie with the music by composer Kid Chocolat. His second contemplative movie called Nowhere, with an original soundtrack composed by Goodbye Ivan, was showed in 2013. Stun, a movie that captives the senses, with dancer Stefania Cazzato, the last film who end his trilogy of contemplative films, was presented in 2015 at the Mapping Festival.
Seven works of his photographs have been published. Kyoshu, nostalgie du pays (Infolio, 2007) presents moments of life across Japan. Seoul Shanghai Tokyo (idpure, 2010) brings together photographs that reveal the contrast between modern architecture and the dilapidated architecture of these three big cities, RATRAK (Verlhac, 2012), with Gabriel Mauron, reveals the ski resorts, at night, with the machine’s beam of light. No Cliché (Jane & Jeremy, 2013) offers Polaroids of architectures lost in the vastness of Iceland. Hong Kong - Perspectives, Prospectives, Typologies (Infolio & Mccm Creations, 2018) describes the typology of Hong Kong’s atypical and unique architecture. After that work, Greco released his book & film Hong Kong Neon (Infolio & Mccm Creations, 2021), realized from 2012 to December 2019, which ended his diptych on Hong Kong. End of 2021 (Chambre Noire, 2021), he self published the book Place(s) an experiment involving in-game photography, photographs of a mystical and fantasized Iceland... after canceling his travel to Iceland due to the lockdown. His two last books, Hong Kong Neon & Place(s) were notably featured in The Guardian, Vice France, Vice US, Monocle, Fast Company, Les Inrocks, Libération, L’Obs, Fisheye, Télérama, Phroom, CNN and Creative Review.
He had the opportunity to show his work in solo exhibitions in Espace abstract, Lausanne, Musée Alexis Forel, Morges, Guillaume Daeppen Galerie, Basel and in group exhibitions in La Ferme de la Chapelle, Geneva, Kornhausforum, Bern and in Photo Elysée, Lausanne. And presented a live in-game photography performance, with an exhibition, in Centre de la Photographie Genève.
In the early 2000’s, he started out in the fashion industry as a model and went on to organize fashion events and fashion shows in New York and Tokyo.
Greco also worked, during 5 years, with young people without diploma and / or in social exclusion by helping them to create, write, direct and edit short films. And equally teach them and work with them on commercial videos for clients. With stage director Radhia Chapot-Habbes, they created the ELAN collective whose objective is to allow vulnerable, precarious or isolated people to make human and artistic experiences in order to regain esteem and self-confidence in order to allow better integration.
