In the current film scene, the inclusion of female perspectives addressing identity and desire in a radical and subversive way is becoming increasingly prominent. Ann Oren, whose work orbits the intermediate universe between the visual arts and film, joins the list alongside Julia Ducournau and Rose Glass. Piaffe tells the story of Eva, a young woman who assumes the job of her sister Zara, a foley artist, after she suffers an accident. The project that Zara leaves unfinished is to make equine sounds for an advertisement. Eva devotes herself to this task obsessively and as a result grows a ponytail. A monument to the weird filmed in 16 mm. A piece that moves between comedy and drama to explore an idea of non-normative sexuality, where desire is close to animalism and mutations are part of nature.
Ann Oren
Tel Aviv, 1979. Visual artist and filmmaker. She studied Film (BA) and Fine Arts (MA) at the School of Visual Arts, NY. Her artworks have been presented in institutions including the Moscow Biennial for Young Art, the Hammer Museum, the Tel-Aviv Museum, the Anthology Film Archives, Apexart and KINDL - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst. After moving to Berlin in 2015, her artistic focus started to shift from video art and installations to cinema. She directed ‘Passage’ in 2020, a 16mm short film that serves as a prequel to ‘Piaffe’, which premiered in Oberhausen Short Film Festival, and won many awards including Best Experimental Short at Slamdance. ‘Piaffe’, her feature debut, premiered at the Locarno Festival in 2022, where it won the Young Jury prize, before touring film competitions around the world.
Screenings
O.V. in German, English O.V. subtitled in Spanish and English
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