Marco Dalla Gassa is an associate professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he teaches Film Analysis, Film Theory, and Cinema and Visual Cultures. His research focuses on the circulation of cultural paradigms and stereotypes in the history of cinema and media, with particular attention to phenomena such as the international circulation of Asian cinema, the proliferation of film festivals, representations of travel, and the ways authorial identities are constructed and positioned. Besides writing essays and co-editing special issues for international academic journals — including Cinema & Cie, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, and Studies in European Cinema — he has authored several monographs and textbooks on contemporary Asian cinema. His most recent book, La condizione del senso (Marsilio, 2024), explores the experimental cinema and artist's films of Abbas Kiarostami. He also curates retrospectives and festival sections, and is co-director of the "Biblioteca: Cinema, Media e Studi Culturali" series for Meltemi Editore.