Pascal Greco is a self-taught Swiss and Italian artist who works as a director, cinematographer, editor, artistic director, and photographer.
His filmography encompasses a dozen films. At the end of 2018, Pascal Greco presented Shadow at the LU in Nantes and at the GIFF in Geneva, a magnetic, intense and hypnotic film with actress Asia Argento and her daughter Anna-Lou Castoldi, that he codirected with Philippe Pellaud. The movie had excellent reviews in media like Numéro, Le Courrier, Le Matin Dimanche or La Repubblica. Shadow is available, since March 2022, in free access on Vimeo.
In 2023, Pascal Greco directed SOMNIA a film he made on a carte blanche from the MAH - Museum of Art and History Geneva. And recently he decided to make a “side b” of the film, with the images he didn’t use for the editing of SOMNIA. This new film is called INSOMNIA and it will be only available via a QR code in the vinyle of the OST composed by talented composer and musicien Goodbye Ivan which will be release in June 2026 in France (published by labels Urgence Disk and Chambre Noire). In 2008, Greco directed Super 8, a poetic and psychedelic movie with the music by composer Kid Chocolat. His second contemplative movie called Nowhere, with an original soundtrack composed by Goodbye Ivan, was showed in 2013. Stun, a movie that captives the senses, with dancer Stefania Cazzato, the last film who end his trilogy of contemplative films, was presented in 2015 at the Mapping Festival.
Ten works of his photographs have been published. His photographic work primarily investigates the relationship between architecture and landscape. Kyoshu, nostalgie du pays (Infolio, 2007) presents moments of life across Japan. Seoul Shanghai Tokyo (idpure, 2010) brings together photographs that reveal the contrast between modern architecture and the dilapidated architecture of these three big cities, RATRAK (Verlhac, 2012), with Gabriel Mauron, reveals the ski resorts, at night, with the machine’s beam of light. No Cliché (Jane & Jeremy, 2013) offers Polaroids of architectures lost in the vastness of Iceland. Hong Kong - Perspectives, Prospectives, Typologies (Infolio & Mccm Creations, 2018) describes the typology of Hong Kong’s atypical and unique architecture. After that work, Greco released his book & film Hong Kong Neon (Infolio & Mccm Creations, 2021), realized from 2012 to December 2019, which ended his diptych on Hong Kong. With Place(s) (Chambre Noire, 2021), as well as his new book PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO GAMES, LANDSCAPE (IDPURE éditions & Chambre Noire, 2025) Greco ventures into the emerging field of post-photography through in-game photography. His images, characterised by their unsettling realism, focus on natural-looking virtual landscapes, challenging our perception and construction of reality in the digital age. His book (& film, inside the book on a QR code) KWAI SHING WEST ESTATE is about a residential complex in Hong Kong that is home to 18,000 people (Building Books & Chambre Noire, 2024). Greco’s upcoming book TOKYO FLASH (Infolio, Camera Museum & Chambre Noire 2026) will be release on May 11 in France. His books and photographic work were notably featured in The Guardian, Le Monde, Vice France, Vice US, Monocle, De Standaard, Fast Company, Les Inrocks, Libération, L’Obs, Télérama, Phroom, CNN, Fisheye Immersive, Creative Review, Blind Magazine, Polka and Fisheye Magazine.
He had the opportunity to show his work in solo exhibitions in Espace abstract, Lausanne, Musée Alexis Forel, Morges, Guillaume Daeppen Galerie, Basel, Musée Suisse du Jeu, Vevey and in group exhibitions in Octobre Numérique, Arles, La Ferme de la Chapelle, Geneva, Kornhausforum, Bern, Journées Photographique de Bienne and in Photo Elysée, Lausanne. And presented a live in-game photography performance, with an exhibition, in Centre de la Photographie Genève. His films were also in presented in film festivals and art digital festivals, GIFF, FIFDH, Ecrans Urbains, Close Up Festival, Renaissance 2.0 biennial, Mapping Festival, Milan Machinima Festival and les Journées de Soleure.
In the early 2000’s, he started out in the fashion industry as a model and went on to organize fashion events and fashion shows in New York and Tokyo.
Beyond his artistic practice, Greco is committed to social engagement. He mentors young people who are marginalised or lacking formal qualifications, guiding them in creating short films and commercial videos for clients while helping them develop professional audiovisual skills. He founded in 2020 the ELAN collective with director Radhia Chapot-Habbes, which offers transformative artistic experiences to vulnerable and isolated individuals. They work with diverse communities, including young migrants, refugees, people with intellectual disabilities, individuals struggling with addiction, and older adults. Their accomplishments include three theatrical productions at the Comédie de Genève, bringing these different communities together on stage and creating powerful, moving performances that showcase the authentic voice of each participant.
