After its world premiere at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and an international premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, Berlin-based artist Ann Oren’s (*1979 in Tel Aviv) latest film Passage (2020) now will open the newly established M1 VideoSpace at KINDL in Berlin’s Maschinenhaus, to which the artist adds an olfactory and tactile layer in her installation. 

Running from September 13, 2020, to February 21, 2021, this inaugural exhibition curated by Kathrin Becker reflects on the boundaries between the human and the animal, on fictional gender roles and how they can be overcome, as well as on the early film experiments of Eadweard Muybridge with horses.

Synopsis

In Passage, a 13-minute, 16mm film, a foley artist creates sounds for a film starring a dressage horse and dissolves into his own imitation. As the character in the film, played by the gender-fluid performer Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, seems to transform into a gender-defying centaur, the film reflects on the boundaries between the human and the animal as well as on fictional gender roles and their