Ariana Gerstein

Ariana Gerstein utilizes the mechanics of process to explore how we create and consume cinema. Using non-traditional methods for making and showing movies can encourage us to see and experience a wider potential for working with time, allowing for opportunities to digress, reconsider, recycle, complicate and slow down- affecting the way we represent our world and our relationships. Her techniques include desktop scanners in place of cameras and other single-frame approaches. Her films have been screened at many wonderful venues including IDFA, European Media Arts Festival, Media City, 25FPS, New York Film Festival, MOMA, and received awards and support by way of the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film from Ann Arbor Film Festival, Golden Gate Award from San Francisco International Film Festival, a Truer Than Fiction/Independent Spirit Award in collaboration with partner Monteith McCollum, Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, New York Council on the Arts, New York Foundation of the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and Illinois Arts Council. Her experimental documentary work has been nationally broadcast on the P.B.S. series P.O.V. Ariana holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Professor at Binghamton University’s Department of Cinema.