Graduated in the Art Institute of Florence, from 1984 she has been creating black and white animations such as Lucidi folli (1986), Congiuntivo futuro (1988), Come persone (1995), and realized her first color film Quasi niente only in 1997. La partita (2002) was presented in Turin and won the Kodak Award for the best Italian short film; other films were presented in Annecy, Cannes, Zagreb, London, Edinburgh and Berlin. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Imaginaria 2024 festival.