Director's Works
The Cranberry Effect Mathery
Mathery is the Italian directing duo of Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli, whose background in design and photography forms the foundation of a bold, visual storytelling practice. Based between Milan and Brooklyn, the pair craft surreal, color-saturated worlds that transform everyday life into cinematic experiences infused with irony, humor, and meticulous art direction.
Meeting while studying product design at NABA, New Academy in fine arts in Milan, Zorzi and Sangalli began a multidisciplinary practice that spans film, photography, spatial design, and immersive installation. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including the acclaimed interactive project Pastello for the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and they are part of the Young Guns winners community.
In film, Mathery has charted a nontraditional trajectory. Their short Fiber Affair premiered on Nowness and was shortlisted by the Berlin Commercial International Film Festival, while The Artists’ Room featuring Emma Laird (The Brutalist, Mayor of Kingstown) opened the OFFF Festival and Blue or Green was screened at the Chelsea film Festival. Their most recent project, The Cranberry Effect, marks their debut in narrative filmmaking.
Represented by 1stAveMachine, Mathery’s commercial and branded films for Samsung, IKEA, American Express, Delta, Klarna and Facebook have earned multiple awards and international recognition. Their work fuses design precision with cinematic imagination, each frame a portal to a world both familiar and profoundly strange, filled with mystery, irony, and poetic subversion.
As Italians, we talk about food constantly...it’s an obsession passed down through generations in both our families. Naturally, we combined that with our other love: a good murder mystery and a splash of blood.
In this short film we've been lucky enough to have on board Harriet and Amber, two young British actresses from the Netflix series of Black Mirror and Bridgerton.
