Luca Dipierro

His cut-out animations, filmed in stop motion with marionettes made out of paper and old book cloth, have been called "a perfect balance of creepy and charming" (Huffington Post).

Conrad, Mary Gaitskill, Tove Jansson, Jim Knipfel, Robert Lopez, Jenny Offil, Studs Terkel, and Leni Zumas.

[5] Between 2014 and 2015, Dipierro toured with the show Paper Circus, a screening of his animations with a live soundtrack performed with the Italian band Father Murphy.

[10] Dipierro has also published a book of short fictions in Italian, Biscotti neri (Madcap, 2011), described by Jim Knipfel as "dark, surreal, and extremely unsettling [...] folk tales of the future."

Dipierro's prose in English has appeared in Gigantic, Harp and Altar, No Colony, New York Tyrant, PANK, the anthology City Sages Baltimore,[11] and other publications.