Artist Statement

My work is a psychological investigation in time, found material and image deconstruction.  Ripped apart film, dance and sound footage is altered and transformed to create existential filmic experiences. Whether it’s fragments from Maya Deren’s Ritual in Transfigured Time or Jean Luc Godard’s Contempt, single moments in time are extended, bearing the residue of cinematic and choreographic phrases.

Influenced by structuralist film strategies I employ continuous loops, repetition and re-photography (off the screen). Gestures, movement, light and sound create an experience more akin to musical abstraction than a linear filmed narrative.

In a re-staging of visual information, my collage work combines torn shapes and forms with film stills – the deliberate tears and raw edges point to a fragile, ephemeral state.  Functioning also as sculptural gestures, these works hover somewhere between sculpture and stage set.

My re-fashioned films and images are events not in the usual sense of considerable action taking place, but made eventful through a temporal conceit.

“..stripping back the narrative arc to mere moments, imbuing filmic strands with raw, sensuous, often jarring energy Annes’s work has a heightened awareness of time, frame, texture and gesture” – Meg Shiffler, Director, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

“I love your uncanny knack in choosing haunting images, slowing them down, saturating them with intense color, interspersing them with intriguing audio, interrupting and cutting the videos at precise moments” – Susette Min, Independent Curator.

“Anne brings a great sense of hybrid artistic performance to any space” – Rudolf Frieling, Media Curator, SFMOMA.