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Zoologische Gesellschaft (Zoological Society)

Ann Oren

2021 00:10:00 GermanyColorStereo16:9HD video

Description

Audio-visual recordings of zoo-animals are woven into a fine web of actions and reactions, that finally spiral into a collective animalistic concert. Relating the different animals to each other through montage, fictional relations amongst them is created; a society of animals. The film thus comments on human communities, who created zoos as mirror images. There is an otherness there, and at the same time a disturbing proximity, which we’d like to dismiss.

Written, directed and edited by: Ann Oren 
Sound: Robert Hefter

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.