PENELOPE CORINALDESI
Director, Researcher,
Image-maker and Editor
email: penelopecorinaldesi@hotmail.com
Instagram: @penelope.corinaldesi
I am a London-based visual artist and filmmaker working between documentary, experimental cinema, and research-led practice. My work explores how personal and shared histories surface in urban and domestic spaces. I approach events as existing in an aesthetic realm, using filmmaking, the screen, and other media not only as vessels of transmission but as tools for questioning violence, intergenerational trauma, and the politics of space. Through investigative reconstructions, mixed documentary strategies, and multimedia layering, I attempt to expand what visual media can do.
I studied Social Anthropology (BSc) and City Design (MSc) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and hold an MA in Performance: Screen from Central Saint Martins (UAL). This academic grounding shapes my approach to film and visual research, allowing me to move fluidly between ethnographic observation, theory, and practice - without ever fully leaving one behind.
CV
FREEHOLD MAGAZINE 2025
FREEHOLD — ISSUE ONE: REFUGE
— 2025
— INDEPENDENT PRINT PUBLICATION
— LONDON, UK
— 28 CONTRIBUTORS
— FIRST PRINT RUN: 150 COPIES
EDITORS
— BRANDON ST. CATHERINE
— INDRA TINCOCA
— PENELOPE CORINALDESI
— TEDDY MALONEY
ART DIRECTION + DESIGN
— BRANDON ST. CATHERINE
— JACK EDEN
FORM
— ESSAYS + ACADEMIC WRITING
— POETRY + PROSE
— PHOTOGRAPHY + VISUAL ARTDESCRIPTION
Freehold is an independent publication about cities, bringing together academia, poetry, prose and the visual arts. It is a chorus of voices gathered to create a multivocal investigation of urban life — a space where different forms of knowledge, experience and imagination can congregate.
The name Freehold plays with the tension between its traditional meaning — the exclusive and permanent ownership of land and property — and its phonetic suggestion of something being “free to hold.” It is from this tension that the publication begins: thinking about land, cities and belonging not as fixed conditions, but as spaces that can be questioned and reimagined.
Its first edition brought together 28 contributors across disciplines, using different forms of writing, research and image-making to approach urban questions from multiple perspectives.