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PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL
THE MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSTIY OF REGGIO CALABRIA
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Eric Romeo is an architect, lighting designer and filmmaker. Romeo’s work in design began at The University of Texas at Arlington, where he received a B.S. in Architecture in 2004 while studying film and video simultaneously. He continued his studies in 2014 at Parsons, the New School, where he studied environmental sound design, architecture, landscape design and urban design and received an M.Arch in Architecture in 2016.
Romeo has worked professionally as a design architect + project manager throughout his career in both a freelance and full-time capacity for over 12 years with diverse project experience. He worked as a lighting designer for 2 years as an attempt to bridge the gap between architecture and film. Independently, he has worked on several research/design projects that involved creating a master plan to better understand various urban environments and developed large scale urban/landscape projects within. He has had the opportunity to work on a few solo projects, including the creation of a Mobile Aedicule Bedroom dubbed “the living installation”, served the role of exhibition designer for Parsons’ Alumni Show in 2015 and recently he had the opportunity to collaborate with The Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria for the 2023 Venice Biennale, where he re-envisioned a portion of Nile River Front in Cairo, Egypt. Reintroducing Papyrus as a method of cleaning the river. Most recently, he developed a speculative civic park and train station in Wrexham, Wales.
Romeo has made a feature length documentary film entitled, And the Worlds that Surround which is a rear window into the lesser seen worlds of NYC. He served the role of Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor and Sound Designer. He filmed over 4,000 individual clips for the film and was responsible for the creative trajectory for the project. The film premiered at Fotografiska in 2022 in NYC with a live score (violin + cello) during David LaChapelle’s ground breaking building wide exhibition at the Museum. It has since screened at The Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and is scheduled to screen at other institutions throughout 2023. The film won a Bronze Remi Award in the category of Best Documentary at Worldfest Houston International Film Festival 2022 and was an Official Selection in the Montreal Independent Film Festival 2022.
Romeo is currently in pre-production on his second feature length documentary called Six Rooms in the South, which is an attempt to better understand the changing social and physical fabric in the Province of Calabria, the southernmost on the Italian Peninsula; using the medium of film to capture varying characters or “Rooms” of Southern Italy. These “Rooms” of the region are identified as Tradition, Abandonment, Connection, Production, Desperation and Fantasy and reveal themselves in the form of Festivals, Religion, Myth, Migration, Architecture, Terrain, Transportation, Agriculture, Manufacturing and Ruins. Each room will have an associated character who is documented during their daily lives in a cinema verite style. These “Rooms” will be edited into six vignettes that will be threaded together to create a feature length film
Romeo was a part-time professor at Parsons from 2019-2023, where he taught in the first-year program. The course he taught was Sustainable Systems, which challenged students to better understand that what they make comes from the earth and will ultimately go back into the earth, while giving them the tools they need to design more consciously. He taught the course 11 times.
EXHIBITIONS/NOTABLE EXPERIENCE
May 2022
And The Worlds That Surround Feature Length Documentary
Official Selection/ Bronze Remi Award For Best Documentary WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
Houston Texas
January 2022
And The Worlds That Surround Feature Length Documentary
Official Selection Montreal Independent Film Festival (Semi-Finalist for Best Documentary)
Montreal, Quebec
November 2016
Living Installation at Factory ArtSpace
Bedroom Aedicule (Mobile Bedroom for Artist in Residence) + Exhibition
Queens, NY
October 2015
Parsons the New School
Parson’s Alumni Show 2015
Sole Exhibition Designer
New York, NY
April 2015
First Bridges Exhibitions/ Concert Series
Experimental Music Entry
New York, NY / London, UK
April 2007-July 2008
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, ASU
Permanent Art Installation, South Façade (winning competition entry)
Vox Manufacturing / Ehrlich Architects
Phoenix, AZ
December 2006-May 2008
10th & G/First Congregational United Church of Christ
Lighting Design & Consulting
Vox Manufacturing / Tod Williams & Billie Tsien Architects
Washington, DC
November 2005
New York International Independent Film Festival
Three Entries Accepted (Pill Poppers, Compositions of Light & Bats…an Experience & Process) award of “Best Art Documentary” for Bats…and Experience & Process
New York, NY
Expanded Resume available upon request.