Anna Sibylla is a filmmaker and photographer of Asian descent, born in the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol and raised in the Netherlands.

She graduated in film directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, after previously studying Film & Television Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.

Her photographic work emerged during a prolonged period of chronic illness marked by memory loss, sensory hypersensitivity — most notably photophobia, an extreme sensitivity to light — alongside a pervasive sense of emotional numbing and detachment, during which perception and the experience of reality itself became increasingly unstable.

Confined largely to domestic spaces, she began photographing intuitively, working exclusively with natural light and the subjects within direct reach. Photography became a way of reconstructing presence: an attempt to approach through images what could not fully be experienced or felt in the moment itself. Shaped as much by absence as by observation, the work explores fragile states of connection, distance, metamorphosis, and the instability of memory and perception.

Anna Sibylla’s work has been exhibited and published internationally. She currently lives and works between the Netherlands and Italy.