A mirror on contemporary culture
Curation Hour is a platform dedicated to video content across a specific range of categories: fashion, music, dance, art, design, lifestyle and contemporary culture. We accept independent projects as well as commercial work — as long as it fits within one of our categories, Curation Hour is your home.
Beyond video, we also publish thought pieces and cover the events shaping these industries — interviews, opinion, and reporting from the ground.
We're looking for short films, animations, documentaries and video content that make us question our understanding of society. Out-of-the-ordinary work, extraordinary work, hybrid work that doesn't quite fit conventional genres. Productions that are hard to place, but that need to be seen. Uncomfortable, yet stunning. Challenging, yet hilarious. Clever, yet unpretentious.
Beyond the screen
Curation Hour isn't just about the work on screen. Alongside our filmmaker interviews, we now curate Creative Retreats — small gatherings of eight to twelve filmmakers, directors, producers and creative collaborators, brought together for four to five days in carefully chosen locations. No panels, no lanyards, no printed programme — just enough time and space to actually talk.
Our first edition, No Man's Land, launches in Calabria in autumn 2026: a 17th-century house renovated by two filmmakers, remote, warm, and built for creative work. Wake early, swim, walk, meet people from other creative disciplines — no agenda beyond attention.
Who’s behind Curation Hour?
Publicist and festival strategist Niccolò Montanari entered the creative industry in 2012, co-founding the Berlin Fashion Film Festival. In 2016, he left to embark on a solo journey, founding MontanariPR to support film directors, production companies and brands with PR and festival distribution.