Ann Oren
Ann Oren is a Berlin based visual artist and filmmaker. By dissolving distinctions between plant, animal and human, she asks what it is to be human in an ecosystem immersed in digital culture. Questions about intimacy and identity keep emerging through various audio-visual approaches, while exploring gender, fictosexuality, animality, interspecies and other hybrid conditions. Employing a visceral language, she leads the spectator with their own body towards critical thinking. Her work’s institutional presentations include The Moscow Biennial for Young Art, The Hammer Museum, The Tel-Aviv Museum, Apexart, Lentos Kunstmuseum and Kindl - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst.
She directed PASSAGE in 2020, which premiered in Oberhausen Short Film Festival, and won many awards including Best Experimental Short at Slamdance. Her first narrative feature film PIAFFE premiered in the Locarno Film Festival’s International Competition and was presented in dozens of festivals including San Sebastián and BFI London. It won numerous awards including the Junior Jury Awards at the Locarno Film Festival and the Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Her work’s presentations include Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Dok Leipzig, Locarno, BFI London and Ann Arbor Film Festivals, as well as The Moscow Biennial for Young Art, The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), The Tel-Aviv Museum, Anthology Film Archives (NY), Apexart (NY) and Kindl - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst (Berlin). Ann studied Film (BA) and Fine Arts (MA) at The School of Visual Arts, NY.
