"Emotions and beauty are the weapons of Valerio Rocco Orlando’s utopia. The erudite aesthetic component of his works is not a sterile exercise in style but a necessary instrument (revolutionary?) of communication and participation. In his case, beauty is the name of a particular interaction between two beings, a ‘Self’ and an ‘Other’... Beauty and emotion imply an idea of movement: interior but also towards the 'Other'. Though he rapidly shifted from cinematography to art, in reality Valerio Rocco Orlando has continued to “do” cinema in the etymological sense of the term: indeed, kinema means movement. Entering the space sketched out by one of his video installations implies not only the movement of vision, but also of bodies and emotivity".〔Corbetta, Caroline, 2011. http://www.moussepublishing.com/working/products-page/product/valerio-rocco-orlando-endless Mousse.〕

"In order to investigate a universal theme, Valerio Rocco Orlando thinks, builds, and weaves relationships with the other, in such a direct and essential way that the artist’s main medium become the encounter itself. Einfülhung, what German philosophers refer to as empathy, is both a prerequisite and a direct consequence of the methodology of Orlando. Conceiving the production as a long-term process based on trust and intimacy, the audience gets to feel the other, participating in his points of view and feelings, by mirroring and questioning their own experience. Only through this new exchange with the viewer the research is completed and the artwork can respond to its function of radical education".〔Florian, Federico, 2015. http://www.klatmagazine.com/art/valerio-rocco-orlando-ritratti-in-movimento-interviews/15795 Klat.〕