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Passage

Ann Oren

2020 00:12:48 GermanyColorStereo16:916mm film
Tags:
Animals, Body, Film or Videomaking, Gender, Sound

Description

A foley artist creates sounds for a film featuring a dressage horse and dissolves into their 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.

Written, Directed, Produced & Edited: Ann Oren 

Starring: Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau 

Cinematography: Juan Sarmiento G.

Sound Design & Original Score: Manuela Schininá

About Ann Oren

Ann Oren is a 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 on intimacy and identity keep emerging through various audio-visual approaches, while exploring gender, fictosexuality, animality, interspecies and other hybrid conditions, employing a visceral language.
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.

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, winning numerous awards including the Junior Jury Awards at the Locarno Film Festival, the Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival and Best Debut from The German Film Critics' Association.
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.