Born in Rome in 1958. Firstly painter and graphic designer, he received the Lubiam award in 1980 by Renato Guttuso. Since 1992 he has been involved in experimental animated cinema, and his works were soon noticed by critics and by important festivals like Venice, Rome, Locarno, Montreal, Paris, Berlin. He worked with animation and set designs for Italian TV, both in RAI (Blob) and Fininvest (L’angelo). In 2025 Freelm, co-directed by Alain Parroni, won the European Cinematography Award for best experimental film. Carrying out his works Carrano has collaborated with well-known composers such as Sylvano Bussotti, Giorgio Battistelli, Ennio and Andrea Morricone, Marco Colonna, Massimo Carrano, Antonello Salis, Sandro Satta, Mark Dresser, Giovanni Sollima, Fabrizio Volpi.

Filmmaker and co-founder of Nomadica, a “thing” that intertwines in various ways cinema, thoughts, arts, sciences, and projections of all kinds, from all places, from all times. He has curated in-depth studies of authors such as Franco Piavoli and Pedro Costa. He has always collaborated in various capacities with filmmakers, musicians, journalists, artists of all kinds. He is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Syracuse and has worked at the Academies of Bologna and Brescia.