Signora Penelope Studios was founded by film director and producer Barbara Brogi
Official teaser of experimental feature film MORPHIC. In MORPHIC bipolar disorder pushes Barbara — its writer and producer — into a hallucinatory dream world born from her excesses in Berlin, a world that gradually breaks into abstraction. The film expands the themes of her book Autobiographical, available on Amazon.
Produced by Barbara Brogi / Signora Penelope Studios / AI Studios TV. Runtime 87 min - 2025
About the founder
Barbara Brogi, professionally known as Signora Penelope, is an Italian film director founder of Signora Penelope Studios and AI Studios TV. She works at the edge of cinema, memory, and dreams.
With a background as a model and actress in Paris, Los Angeles, Berlin, and Milan, Barbara brings her deep experience in visual storytelling and performance into a new realm of digital filmmaking.
Her films explore themes like memory deletion, identity collapse, emotional trauma, and surreal time structures. Her unique style blends reversed narrative logic, visual abstraction, and dreamlike pacing.
She is currently based in Italy.
Barbara Brogi
Creating conceptual cinema through surrealism and dream logic.
“Dreams can be either nightmares or dreams.” Cit. Signora Penelope
Film Director | Former Actress & Model (Paris, Los Angeles, Berlin, Milan)
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SPECIAL MORPHIC EDITION Hardcover –
by Barbara Brogi (Author)
In this radical special edition, Autobiographical expands beyond the page and enters the visual world of MORPHIC, Barbara Brogi’s hallucinatory feature film.
Written with brutal honesty and visionary clarity, Autobiographical traces the journey of a young woman escaping the suffocating structures of her birthplace after a bipolar diagnosis at twenty-two. Moving through Los Angeles, Paris, and finally Berlin, Barbara confronts love, addiction, techno nights, destructive excesses, and the unstable magnificence of a mind that breaks and reforms.
In Berlin’s chaotic beauty she spirals, crashes, resurrects, and transforms — a life lived at extremes, where pain becomes material and survival becomes art.
This special Morphic Edition includes 50 stills from the feature film, creating a hybrid object at the border of cinema, literature, and visual diary. Images and text collide to form a vivid, destabilizing self-portrait: a woman split open and reassembled through dream logic, memory fractures, and visionary intensity.
Written in a sharp, intimate, dreamlike voice, Autobiographical is not a confession — it’s an incision.
A book about escaping, breaking, becoming, and turning one’s own chaos into creation.
For readers interested in experimental writing, autofiction, bipolar narratives, Berlin memoirs, queer and hybrid cinema, and the violent tenderness of self-transformation. Autobiographical is Barbara Brogi’s experimental memoir where memory, trauma and surreal perception intertwine. Told through fragmented scenes and altered states, the book explores identity, dissociation and rebirth - forming the narrative foundation of her feature film MORPHIC. Click here to buy the book on Amazon.