Anna Sanders Films

08 July - 10 July 2005

'Anna Sanders is an in-between: she is the link between the films she produces and between many artists. Her presence is that of a ghost.  Her roots are in the visual art world but she evolves in the cinematic field.’

 

Anna Sanders Films is the name of a film production company based in Paris. It was founded in 1997 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Charles de Meaux and Philippe Parreno. The films are places of encounter, encounters with landscape, encounters with the other, and encounters with other artists, musicians and filmmakers such as Doug Aitken, Devendra Banhardt, Carsten Holler, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, M/M (Paris), Rirkrit Tiravanija, Dave Stewart, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

 

Anna Sanders is at the forefront of the current convergence of visual art and cinema. Her films share a general fascination with exploring our world and its relationship to personal narratives.

 

Constantly oscillating between reality and fiction, document and subjective memory, mental and visual image, off-screen and on screen these films present themselves as footnotes on the margins of reality and of film history. Stunning, often sensual, imagery combined with a constant questioning of cinema, Anna Sanders’ films retains a cool distance from their subjects, the filmmakers creating a space for the viewer to become immersed in the beauty of images and their multiple meanings, all converging in one question: how to tell the world nowadays.

 

Anna Sanders Films has blazed a trail for a new breed of cinema - one made by visual artists that is shown most often in galleries, but increasingly is finding its way into cinemas and film festivals. Indeed, the company's production with Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Blissfully Yours, won the prize Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival 2002 and the KNF prize by the Dutch critics at the 2003 International Film Festival, Rotterdam.