Ann is a visual artist and filmmaker. In her films, videos and installations she explores the performative quality of everyday life. As social media turned relationships into a dynamic of performers and audience, the line between exhibitionism, voyeurism and spectatorship has evaporated. Similarly, the characters in her projects exist in the liminal spaces in between.
Working at the intersection of the narrative and the critical, she investigates collective desire. Ordinary behaviors are exaggerated to highlight the theatricality of the everyday, winking at collective legends from the history of literature, theater and cinema.
Born in Tel-Aviv 1979, studied Film (BA) and Fine Arts (MA) at The School of Visual Arts, NY. Her works were exhibited at The Moscow Biennial for Young Art, WRO Media Art Biennial, B3 Moving Image Biennial, The Hammer Museum, The Tel-Aviv Museum, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Apexart. Film Festivals include: Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Dok Leipzig, New Horizons, Locarno and Ann Arbor. She lives/works in Berlin and Tel-Aviv.
Contact: annoren (at) gmail.com
Education:
2009 Skowhegan School of Art, ME
2007 The School of Visual Arts, NY. MFA. Major: Fine Arts
2004 The School of Visual Arts, NY. BFA. Major: Film & Television
Selected Solo Screenings, Exhibitions and Commissions:
2017 DEUX FEMMES Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI, USA 2016 THE SUPREME SPASM Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2016 THE SUPREME SPASM Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY
2015 InContact APEXART, NY
2015 InContact PrintScreen, Holon Museum, Israel
2013 InContact The Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, Israel
2013 InContact Carnegie Mellon Film Festival, Pittsburgh
2012 InContact Anthology Film Archives. New York, NY
2010 COLOR OCCURRENCE MediaLab Prado, Madrid. In collaboration with Zevan Rosser
2009 IN SECURITY multi-media play, collaboration with Unbound Collective. 3LD, NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings:
2020
(UPCOMING) INTERNATIONALE KURZFILMTAGE HAMBURG
(UPCOMING) HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
(UPCOMING) EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONALE KURZFILMTAGE OBERHAUSEN
VIRTUAL POOL, MICROSCOPE GALLERY, New York
ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER
KINODOT EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL St. Petersburg
JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, Otaru
2019
L'ALTERNATIVA Barcelona Independent Film Festival. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
KLEX Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival
HAIFA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, VR/AR 2018
MONITORING with KASSELER DOKFEST, Germany
EUROVIDEO 2018 Théâtre de Liège, Belgium
2017
B3 MOVING IMAGE BIENNIAL Frankfurt
LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL, presented by The Parders
VIDEOFORMES 2017 festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
MUSRARA MIX FESTIVAL, Jerusalem
RADIATOR GALLERY, Space Odyssey beyond Material Confinements, NY
2015
CINDY RUCKER GALLERY the trees the trees the trees, NY, NY
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, NewFilmmakers. New York, NY
2014
Le Deuxieme Sexe Nuit Blanche aux Salaisons, Les Salaisons, Paris.
SLAG GALLERY Preliminary Study: RSI –T , Brooklyn, NY/ MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART, MI
FILE FESTIVAL FIESP Cultural Centre - Ruth Cardoso, Sau Paulo, Brasil
SEOUL NEW MEDIA FILM FESTIVAL
2013
WRO ART CENTER BIANNIEL Wroclaw, Poland
PRINT SCREEN FESTIVAL Holon Museum, Israel
NARS FOUNDATION F_ll in the bl_nk. Brooklyn, NY
2012
THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART - Epos Cinepublika
ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER Me Pix, NY
THE INTERACTIVE MEDIA ARTS CONFERENCE (IMAC) Re-new, Copenhagen
CABINET + LAXART The Double, NY + LA
2010
MOSCOW BIENNIAL OF YOUNG ART Tsaritsyno Museum, Moscow
TALLER BARICUA (IN)TANGIBLE, NY, NY
2009
WRO 13TH MEDIA ART BIENNALE WRO ART CENTER, Wroclaw, Poland
2008
APEXART Come Out & Play, New York, NY
2007
WHITEBOX THE ANNEX Crude Technology, NYC
PS122 View From Here, New York, NY
2006
THE HAMMER MUSEUM Too much freedom? ‘Freewaves’, LA
Awards:
2019 Israeli Films Competition Winner, EPOS Film Festival, The Tel-Aviv Museum
2019 Ostrovsky Family Fund Grant
2018 Best IT Documentary Award, DOKer Moscow International Documentary Film Festival
2017 Best Artwork Award, B3 Moving Image Biennial, Frankfurt
2017 The New York State Council on the Arts Project Grant
2016 Rabinovich Foundation Grant
2016 Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts Grant
2016 Ostrovsky Family Fund Grant
2014 New Artist Award, NeMaf 2014 Seoul International New Media Festival
2014 Nars Foundation Fellowship
2012 Special Jury Award, The Social Media Film Festival
2009 Spiro Arts Fellowship
2008 The Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
2006-2007 Scholarship from The School of Visual Arts
2004 Visual arts fund grant, The School of Visual Arts
2003 The National board of reviews New York Grant
2015 - 2016 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2014 Nars Foundation, NY
2013 HomeBase Build V, Berlin
2013 I-Park, Connecticut
2013 Aljira Emerge 11, NJ
2010 NES, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2010 Open Up MediaLab Prado, Madrid, Spain
2009 Spiro Arts Park City, UT