Ann Oren

History

Ann Oren is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her films and video installations explore performative qualities and fantasy in everyday life. The characters in her films exist in the liminal space between performers and audience as she investigates collective desire and legends from the history of literature, theater and cinema. Her work's institutional presentations include The Moscow Biennial for Young Art, The Hammer Museum, The Tel-Aviv museum, Anthology film archives, Apexart and Kindl - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst. Festival screenings include Rotterdam, BFI London, Slamdance, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Dok Leipzig, Locarno and Ann Arbor. Born in Tel-Aviv (1979), Ann studied Film (BA) and Fine Arts (MA) at the school of visual arts, NY. She lives/works in Berlin.

Movies

Piaffe
Piaffe
Editor
When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.
Piaffe
Piaffe
Screenplay
When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.
Piaffe
Piaffe
Director
When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.
Passage
Passage
Director
A foley artist creates sounds for a film starring a dressage horse, with a thrilling performance from queer artist and performer Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau.
Blue
Blue
Director
In our 'freelancer' age, many who reside in a city find themselves confined to their apartment and use a computer screen mostly to branch out. This film brings nature, lunacy, emotion and humanity into the apartment, using the colour blue as the main protagonist. It is the third instalment in an ongoing series of diaristic films.
The World Is Mine
The World Is Mine
Director
A western Cosplayer (costume player) of the popular cyber diva Hatsune Miku moves to Tokyo and gets to know the otaku community - obsessive manga fans. Her journey explores identity through cosplay and the fandom of the cyber diva Hatsune Miku, epitomizing collective fantasy as she is fan created. The film demonstrate the relevance of this behavior globally in terms of collective fantasy, with voice overs woven of lyrics fans wrote for Hatsune Miku.
Deux femmes (for Man Ray)
Deux femmes (for Man Ray)
Director
Using images from online amateur porn videos, Deux Femmes recreates pornographic footage shot by Man Ray in 1937 and found in the artist's atelier after his death. Closely following the compositions of Ray's original film, director Ann Oren presents printed frames from online videos in a stack directly below the camera—adding a single frame to the stack every few seconds. The unhurried process of stacking the images by hand slows the otherwise speedy consumption of pornographic media in a nod to Ray's preoccupation with the female body as sculpture.