Robert Iolini is an internationally recognised filmmaker, radio producer, composer and artist. For the past twenty years he has been producing innovative works that are stylistically diverse and united by a philosophical approach. His current focus is the ART e FACTs Film Series, producing narrative films and music about human progress and potential futures. The first feature length film is ART e FACT, a music driven speculative intrigue about creativity and freedom.
In 2015 Iolini established Studio Syncandi Kyoto, a boutique digital platform to produce and distribute commissioned content for I IN THE 22ND CENTURY (i22), a transmedia art narrative that presents a future history of Japan.
Iolini’s other large scale projects include the experimental hybrid documentary The Hong Kong Agent which exists as 18 short films, gallery installation, radio drama, online interactive and augmented reality.
Iolini’s radio dramas feature multi-layered storylines incorporating rich soundscapes and spoken and sung voices. His works for radio have been nominated for international competitions, notably Hong Kong: City in Between, which was a prize-winner at the Amsterdam Soundscapes (be)for(e) 2000 festival.
Iolini’s compositions span a wide spectrum of musical genres and are ever-evolving. He has written for chamber ensembles and theatre and composed numerous large-scale electro-acoustic works for radio broadcast. He has two critically acclaimed solo albums released on British avant-garde music label ReR Megacorp. Iolini has worked on numerous socially engaged theatre productions and was the musical director for Big hART, Australia’s foremost arts and social development organisation, for ten years.
Iolini holds a Master of Arts degree in advanced composition from Macquarie University, Sydney Australia. His thesis was on Simultaneity in Music.