Her practice is based on the moving image, with a focus on cinema history, archaeology of cinema, and archives. Engaging with a diverse range of media – including video, photography, performance, AI, virtual reality, and sound – she frequently revisits, reenacts, and remediates obsolete devices and iconographies to understand the influence of technologies and images on our perception and cultural imagery. As such, display and duration – especially the loop – are key elements of her practice.
Through an approach that weaves together experimentation and historical research – particularly the legacy of Fascism and the Economic Boom – Roaro actively interprets cultural texts from the past in order to critically activate them in the present, often through performance and reenactment. A part of her current research, based on archives and oral sources, investigates the relationship between architecture, spectatorship and urbanism in 20th-century cinema theatres.