“San Siro” is a film that gravitates around the world of football, offering a silent gaze at the less visible aspects of the temple of this sport: the San Siro stadium in Milan. Steering clear of what is usually captured on camera, the work lingers on the staging of the spectacle and the laborious preparation of a match, where workers, technicians, directors, and operators become the unconscious protagonists of the narrative. Like actors with their own precise choreography, they reveal the unimaginable backstage production, made up of repeated gestures in a timeless dimension and simple actions such as repainting the field lines, laying out cables for the live broadcast, or inspecting every single room. On the other side, the players—surprisingly human—approach the entrance of the grand arena. Ancarani offers a precious example of artistic research into Italian society—of which football has always been a powerful social glue—highlighting its transformations, its lights and shadows.

The project, developed within the framework of ArteVisione, was further expanded thanks to the support of the Museo MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo - in Rome, as part of the Premio MAXXI 2014.
The work has been exhibited at numerous festivals, galleries, and museums, including: Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, August 2014; TIFF - Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2014; RIDM - Montreal International Documentary Festival, Montreal, Canada, November 2014; Filmmaker Festival, GAM, Milan, December 2014; IFFR Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2015; Vienna Independent Shorts, Vienna, Austria, 2015; 32nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany, 2015; Art Basel, Basel, 2016; Interfilm Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2016; Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan, 2017; PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, 2023.