PASSAGE
13 mins, 16mm film, 2020.
A foley artist creates sounds for a film starring a dressage horse and dissolves into his own imitation.
As the character in the film, played by the gender fluid performer Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, seems to transform into a gender-defying centaur, the film reflects on the boundaries between the human and the animal as well as on fictional gender roles and their transcendence.
Shot on 16mm film, PASSAGE alludes to Eadweard Muybridge’s pre-cinematic experiments with horses.
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Distribution:
VDB, Oberhausen, Ann Oren Studio
Written, Directed & Edited by
Ann Oren
Featuring:
Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau
Exhibition highlights:
PASSAGE (solo)
Kindl Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
(postponed)
STRANGERS TO OURSELVES
Pori Art Museum, Finland
DAS UNERWARTETE
(group exhibition)
Kunstverein Wolfsburg
HYBRIDS - FROM THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS
Lele Art Space, Warsaw
PASSAGE Installation view @Kindl
Festival highlights:
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
BFI London Film Festival
PÖFF Shorts Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn
Slamdance
Tampere Film Festival, Finland
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
BOGO Shorts, Bogotá Short Film Festival
Hamburg Short Film Festival
Kasseler Dokfest
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival
OFF - Odense International Film Festival
Tirana International Film Festival
Antimatter Film Festival
Videomedeja Novi Sad
Awards:
Slamdance Film Festival Best experimental short
Tirana International Film Festival Best video art & Experimental
BOGO Shorts Best experimental international short
Black Canvas Film Festival Special mention
Onion City Experimental Film Festival Honorable mention
Funding support:
The Ostrovsky Family Fund
Epos
Artis
Dramaturgy:
Dafne Narvaez Berlfein
Sound Design & Original Score:
Manuela Schininá
Foley Artists:
Production Design & Props:
Tail Master & Makeup:
Sada Leigh
Costume Design:
Morgan Young
Color Correction:
Steve Sebban
Sound re-recording Mixer:
Robert Hefter
Poster Design:
Produced with the support of
The Ostrovsky Family Fund
