About us - ALAMAR LIFE

My research began with the desire to reconnect people with the natural world, restoring the sense of well-being that comes from feeling an integral part of Nature.

Cristina Fino

Alamar Life was born from a conviction developed through more than thirty years of working with moving images.

The quality of an experience is shaped not only by the beauty of a landscape, but also by the visual language through which that landscape is expressed. The observation of Nature, combined with extensive experience in directing and designing audiovisual installations, gave rise to a line of research exploring the relationship between imagery, perception and well-being.

From this research, the Alamar Life Method was born.

An audiovisual language designed to support the relationship with Nature without overshadowing it. Images, natural soundscapes and narrative rhythm do not constantly demand the viewer’s attention, but instead encourage a more natural, continuous and contemplative way of observing.

Over the years, this vision has been strengthened through experimentation, practical applications and ongoing dialogue with professionals from a wide range of fields, including medicine, psychology, culture, communication and public institutions.

The testimonials that follow represent some of the voices that have accompanied this journey, recognising its value and contributing to its ongoing development.

Julia Berger

Founder of LUX VIVENS - Sounds of Living Light

Cristina Fino is an atypical video artist. I prefer to call her a video therapist. She knows how to define the enchantment of the present. She knows the way the wind moves the leaves, how the earth sings beneath her feet as she walks, and how to calm the mind with birdsong, with the colours of the flowers, with the motions of the sea and sky. When you watch her videos, there is only you and nature around and within you. In that moment, you are at the core of your being, at peace.

ROSSANA BECARELLI

President of Mediterranean Network for Medical Humanities - Medical Director at San Giovanni A.S. Hospital, Turin (Italy)

“Cristina Fino is the person who produces these wonderful images. She is truly a messenger of nature, because she immerses herself, understands it and translates it for us. And the videos she produces are very therapeutic: they are images, they are sounds, but above all they are a distillation of nature, a distillation that has been captured with great love and great passion.”

LETIZIA ESPANOLI

Expert trainer and organiser of Alzheimer's units - Sente-Mente Project creator

“We would like to take a few minutes to help you understand the wonder of this work. But just think if in an Alzheimer’s unit there could always be these images going! Beauty heals, beauty is therapeutic. Do we want to increase our effectiveness? We must increase beauty in the places where we do our work.”

FAUSTO CAROTENUTO

Founder of Coscienze in Rete

“Beauty speaks the language of the Gods.
The artist is one who uses the divine language, that same language that is hidden in the beauty of nature, adapts that language, transforms it with his own talent, with his own divinity, to be such as to be recognised by a human consciousness, which through that language grows the highest parts of its soul. L’effetto di questo linguaggio degli Dei, che viene ripreso in maniera incredibile da Cristina, è di guarigione dei nostri archetipi interiori.The effect of this language of the Gods, which is captured in an incredible way by Cristina, is to heal our inner archetypes. These videos are already the ultimate artistic expression to have and use.”

Maurizio Forza

Naturopath, physiotherapist, researcher, writer

For years I have been asking myself: “what if it were possible, as with a PC, to download the original programmes that guided the stages of brain creation into our brains, so that we could have a hard disk of perfection and answers to every possible need?”. I have done some research and study finding the logic of thought and now with Cristina’s work there is the actual method to do this in a simple and complete way. That’s it: the perfection of creation is within our grasp.

MARISA TOLDO

Architect. Workplace Strategy & Holistic Wellbeing. FounderSpaceYourPlace.

“The work of Cristina Fino is a constant source of inspiration. Her unique focus on wellbeing through her beautifully crafted videos is not just incredible, but relevant in healthcare and businesses at large. It’s truly inspiring to see how she drives the narrative towards wellness. These videos not only contribute to overall wellness but also yield specific healing outcomes.”

Paolo Maderu Pincione

Founder of the Institute for Craniosacral Therapies, and of the Professional Craniosacral Association in Italy

What evidently happened is that Cristina, in the ‘contemplative mediation’ produced by the observation of the film and its editing, spontaneously entered into the perception of her fluid body, in contact with the internal tides. Is there a relationship between (attentive and meditative viewing of something that activates the subcortical areas) and the perception of the tides? Obviously yes, even though we practitioners consider the hands (touch, proprioception) and the heart as vehicles of listening, Cristina’s experience tells us that the eyes, under certain conditions, can also ‘take us in’.

Curriculum

The craft of filmmaking in the service of nature.

Cristina Fino began her professional career in Florence in 1982, where she trained as a director at one of Italy’s first multivision studios.

In 1987, she founded a communication agency in Turin specializing in the design of audiovisual events and installations, developing projects over the years for public institutions, museums and companies.

Her professional journey has spanned documentary filmmaking, audiovisual production and the storytelling of places, with a particular focus on the relationship between images, emotion and perception.

Through documentaries, installations and multimedia projects, Cristina Fino explored the potential of audiovisual language to create experiences that engage people not only through narrative, but also through their sensory and emotional dimensions.

It is from this extensive experience that Alamar Life emerged—a project created to explore the relationship between audiovisual language, Nature and well-being.