Witnessing the Unseen Life of Art: A Documentary in Progress
Romulus Folio is proud to announce significant progress on a compelling new documentary project, currently titled Living Canvas. This film offers an intimate exploration of the interdisciplinary contemporary art practice of our artist-in-residence, Angelina Mirabito, tracing the emotional, intellectual, and tactile realities that shape her work.
Filming began in January 2025, when Romulus Folio existed purely as an online initiative. The documentary unfolds within the same living movement that shapes the art itself. Rather than a static record of change, both the art and the documentary continually evolve into a reflection of how creativity, identity, and collaboration continually express one another.
The Creative Team
The project is produced in close collaboration with a highly experienced team:
Director and Video Editor: Ben Hall.
With over twenty years of experience in documentary storytelling, Ben brings a deeply perceptive lens to the emotional and artistic interplay at the heart of the project. His editing practice balances craft with empathy, revealing the human depth within the creative process.
Angelina Mirabito & Scott Ross at the Affordable Art Fair 2025
Creative Steward & Videography: Scott Ross.
Scott supports and amplifies Angelina’s practice, documenting the unfolding process with sensitivity to gesture, movement, and atmosphere, while supporting navigating the many dimensions of her artistic life and managing the Romulus Folio project.
Contributing Videographer: Samuel Galloway
His early footage and interviews continues to inform and enrich the evolving edit, reflecting the project’s layered creative journey.
The project captures the quiet, often unseen moments inside the studio: the gestures that happen without thinking, the textures that emerge from instinct, and the subtle decisions that slowly give form to an idea.
A core element of the documentary is its spontaneity. Alongside longer interviews, the team captures “upsots,” brief, unplanned fragments of studio life. These pieces of footage sit alongside her broader professional practice, demonstrating how art can be a bridge to connection, renewal, and growth.
Focus of the Documentary
Rather than following events in sequence, Living Canvas dwells in the present tense of creation, where art and life merge. It explores how collaboration becomes a language of empathy and discovery; how the act of making art reframes experience and identity; and how beauty and purpose emerge through vulnerability and connection.
At its heart, the documentary reflects Angelina Mirabito’s perspective as an interdisciplinary contemporary artist whose work is informed by lived experience. The challenges within life have shaped her consciousness and expanded her creative vocabulary, revealing new ways of seeing, feeling, and expressing the world. Through art and collaboration, she transforms fragmentation into wholeness, creating a life of meaning beyond mere survival, navigating interdisciplinary collaboration that thrives at the intersection of art, design, and myth.
Here, art is not the subject or the setting, but the living force itself: a presence that holds, reveals, and transforms, the quiet truth through which life becomes a loving canvas.
Scott Ross | Angelina Mirabito | Ben Hall planning meeting October 2025
Why This Collaboration Matters
This film extends Romulus Folio’s ethos: to create spaces where art and community merge through transformation and truth-telling. With Ben Hall’s direction and Scott Ross’s stewardship, Living Canvas becomes both document and invitation, an exploration of what happens when art transcends medium and becomes relationship.
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