Genre
Synopsis
In a meditative, ritualistic atmosphere, a digital moving painting ANOMIE expresses a sense of drift, disintegration and instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values in late modern times. With its vivid colors and palpable aliveness it reminds us of a nature on which we rely for a more organic connection and purpose, generating a non-anthropocentric perspective of our individual and collective living together. The people in crowds are caught between the sense of loss and a desire for wholeness in the ongoing flux of connections and separations. This effect is achieved by recording and manipulating natural shapes and colors via a variety of digital techniques into an art form that resists easy categorization. With layered images merging figures and flowers into an animate kaleidoscopic collage, ANOMIE explores the enigmatic borders between artifice and nature, the technical and the intuitive, the female and the male, at a moment of unprecedented crisis in what it means to be human.
Bio
Slovenian born filmmaker and visual artist Nataša Prosenc Stearns earned her BA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She moved to Los Angeles on a Fulbright Grant for her MFA at California Institute of the Arts. Her body of work ranges from single and multi-channel videos, video installations to short and feature films. She is known for creative use of non-gallery spaces and large multi-channel installations. Her films Souvenir, (released by Cinema Epoch), The Trial of Socrates, (collaboration of 23 filmmakers), Hotel Diary and others explore innovative strategies in storytelling and visual expression.
Nataša's work has been featured at the Venice Biennale, in Douloun Museum of Art in Shanghai, ARCO Fair in Madrid, Lancaster Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and in festivals such as SXSW, Films de femmes Paris, AVIFF Cannes, Brooklyn Film Festival, Chicago Independent Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives Berkeley, RedCat at Disney Music Hall in Los Angeles and others. She is a recipient of the Durffee and Soros Grants.
Nataša lives in Venice California and in Ljubljana Slovenia.
Screening History
World Premiere: Exhibition Eho / NLB Contemporary Art Collection in Dialogue 2025
Credits
Composer - Milko Lazar
