Interiors by David Lynch.
A Thinking Room
2024

concept by David Lynch
assistant Michael Barile

curated by Antonio Monda
for Salone del Mobile
executive project by
Piccolo Teatro di Milano 

project leader
Paolo Di Benedetto
project collaborators 
Alice De Bortoli e Francesca Pedrotti
video designer Fabio Bettonica

set up by Allestimenti Arianese

Design Walk in Budapest
2024

curated by Rossana Orlandi
art director Paolo Di Benedetto

produced by Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency

site Triennale di Milano
 
project collaborators 
Alice De Bortoli e Francesca Pedrotti

light Federico Dozio
set up by Allestimenti Arianese

pics by Gianluca Di Ioia

Twelfth Night, or What You Will
2023

director Giovanni Ortoleva
script by Federico Bellini
set Paolo Di Benedetto
costume Margherita Baldoni
sound Franco Visioli
light Fabio Bozzetta
ass director Alice Sinigaglia

with
Giuseppe Aceto
Alessandro Bandini
Michelangelo Dalisi
Giovanni Drago
Anna Manella
Alberto Marcello
Francesca Osso
Edoardo Sorgente
Aurora Spreafico

produced by LAC Lugano
with Fondazione Luzzati Teatro della Tosse, Centro D'arte Contemporanea Teatro Carcano, Arca Azzurra

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Zita Sempri
2022

short film

director Stefania Spampinato
(Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19)
dop Leco Moura
production designer
Paolo Di Benedetto

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UPA
2022

Set Designer
for Ceo Conference UPA

Set Designer Paolo Di Benedetto

Video Fabio Bettonica

Pics by Masiar Pasquali

TRAUMNOVELLE
2021

script by Riccardo Favaro
on the novel by
Artur Schnitzler

director Carmelo Rifici
set Paolo Di Benedetto
costume Margherita Baldoni
sound Federica Furlani
light Gianni Staropoli

with
actors of the school of
Piccolo Teatro di Milano

produced by
Piccolo Teatro in Milano

VENEZIA.
INFINITA AVANGUARDIA
2021

film documentary

director Michele Mally
dop Marco Alfieri
set Hania Rani
Paolo Di Benedetto

MACBETH,
LE COSE NASCOSTE
2020

written by
based on the novel
byWilliam Shakespeare
dramaturg Simona Gonella

director Carmelo Rifici
set Paolo Di Benedetto
costume Margherita Baldoni
sound Zeno Gabaglio
light Gianni Staropoli
video Piritta Martikainen
assistent director Ugo Fiore

with
Alessandro Bandini, Angelo Di Genio,
Tindaro Granata, Leda Kreider,
Christian La Rosa,
Maria Pilar Pérez Aspa, Elena Rivoltini

produced by LAC Lugano 
with
Teatro Metastasio di Prato,
TPE – Teatro Piemonte Europa,
ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione

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AVEVO UN BEL PALLONE ROSSO
2018

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UOMINI E NO
2018
2017

script by Michele Santeramo
based on the novel “Uomini e no”
by Elio Vittorini

director Carmelo Rifici
set Paolo Di Benedetto
costume Margherita Baldoni
light Claudio De Pace
sound Zeno Gabaglio

with
Giuseppe Aceto, Alessandro Bandini,
Alfonso De Vreese, Salvo Drago,
Caterina Filograno, Ugo Fiore, Yasmin Karam, Leda Kreider, Marta Malvestiti,
Maria Laura Palmeri, Benedetto Patruno,
Matteo Principi, Marco Risiglione,
Elena Rivoltini, Livia Rossi, Martina Sammarco, Francesco Santagada, Sacha Trapletti,
Annapaola Trevenzuoli

produced by
Piccolo Teatro di Milano

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ANNE FRANK:
PARALLEL STORIES

2020

film documentary

directors Sabina Fedeli, Anna Migotto
with Helen Mirren,
Martina Gatti, Arianna Szöréni,
Sarah Lichtszesin-Montard, Helga Weiss

set Hellen Mirren
by Paolo Di Benedetto

set created by
Piccolo Teatro di Milano

produced by 3D Produzioni
distributed by Nexo Digital

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MALEDETTO MODIGLIANI
2020

subject Didi Gnocchi

screenplay by Arianna Marelli
e Valeria Parisi

film documentary

director Valeria Parisi
dop
set Paolo Di Benedetto

actress
Astrid Casali
Caterina Fantetti
Giulia Lombezzi (in the pics)

produced by Didi Gnocchi
with 3D Produzioni
distributed by Nexo Digital

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GAUGUIN IN TAHITI.

PARADISE LOST
2019

screenplay Matteo Testa

film documentary

director Claudio Poli
set Paolo Di Benedetto

produced by 3D Produzioni
distributed by Nexo Digital

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FREUD 2.0
2019

film documentary

director Claudio Poli
set Paolo Di Benedetto

produced by 3D Produzioni
distributed by Nexo Digital

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PICCOLO TEATRO di MILANO

Set Designer for shows,
events and exhibitions made by 
Piccolo Teatro di Milano
during the theater seasons, since 2004.

2004 - present

MILANO BEAUTY WEEK
2022

Set Designer Paolo Di Benedetto
Garden Designer Noma Flowers

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CBRE
2022

Set Designer for a TV Show

CBRE
2021

Set Designer for a TV Show

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UPA
2014

Set Designer
for Ceo Conference UPA

Video artist Masbedo

DE PADOVA

2010

First exhibition of the historical Achille Castiglioni’s maquette in the De Padova’s venue, Milano.

curator Didi Gnocchi
set Paolo Di Benedetto

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