Beny Wagner

Beny Wagner
at Berlinale 2020, Berlin
Born1985 (age 39–40)
Berlin, Germany
Alma materBard College, Jan van Eyck Academie
Occupation(s)Artist, filmmaker, author
Notable workConstant (2022 film)
A Demonstration (2020 film)
Websitebenywagner.com

Beny Wagner (born 1985) is an artist, filmmaker and author.[1][2][3] He is known for his films Constant and A Demonstration.[4][5]

Early life and education

Wagner was born in 1985 in Berlin.[6]

Wagner graduated with a bachelor of arts from Bard College in 2008, and was a postgraduate fellow at Jan van Eyck Academie in 2015-2016.[7][1]

Career

Wagner's first short film Eye Farm, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017.[8]

In 2020, Wagner co-directed A Demonstration, together with his long-term collaborator Sasha Litvintseva, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and screened at the Museum of the Moving Image and the Vancouver International Film Festival.[5][9]

In 2022, he collaborated again with Sasha Litvintseva on Constant, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at CPH:DOX and the Open City Documentary Festival.[10][11] The film is a social and political history of measurement standardization, and incorporates a range of cinematographic techniques, including photogrammetry and 360-degree cameras.[2]

In November 2023, the third film in their trilogy My Want of You Partakes of Me was screened at Tate Modern.[12]

Filmography

Year Title Contribution
TBH My Want of You Partakes of Me Director, editor, cinematographer and producer
2022 Constant Director, editor, cinematographer and producer
2020 A Demonstration Director, writer, editor
2018 Outside Director, writer, editor, cinematographer and producer
2017 We're All Here Director, writer, editor and producer
2017 Eye Farm Director, writer, editor, cinematographer and producer

Publications

  • 2021 – All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film (co-written with Sasha Litvintseva)[13]
  • 2011 – Part-Time Pioneer

Awards and nominations

Year Result Award Category Work Ref.
2023 Won Academia Film Olomouc Best Film Constant [14]
2022 Won Guanajuato International Film Festival Best Documentary Short Film [15]
Won IndieLisboa Best Short Film [16]
Nominated International Film Festival Rotterdam Ammodo Tiger Shorts Award [17]
Nominated CPH:DOX New Vision Award [18]
2021 Nominated La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival Prix Nouvelles Vagues Acuitis A Demonstration [19]
2020 Nominated Berlin International Film Festival Best Short Film [20]

References

  1. ^ a b "Beny Wagner". southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-12-06.[dead link‍]
  2. ^ a b "What a Film Can and Can't Do: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner Interviewed by Jussi Parikka". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  3. ^ "OPENINGS: BENY WAGNER". artforum.com. February 2014. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  4. ^ "Information as a music video, comedy as a diagram: Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva in conversation". sensesofcinema.com. 11 July 2010. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  5. ^ a b "A Demonstration". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  6. ^ "Director Beny Wagner and Sasha Litvintseva on "A Demonstration" and the short form / interview". shortsblog.berlinale.de. 26 February 2020. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  7. ^ "Traveling Sync". janvaneyck.nl. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  8. ^ "Eye Farm". iffr.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  9. ^ Rizov, Vadim (2022-03-17). "DIY Photogrammetry: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner on Constant | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  10. ^ "Constant". iffr.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  11. ^ "A Conversation With Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner(CONSTANT)". hammertonail.com. 16 March 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  12. ^ "This programme of artists' films invites us to reflect on the interplay of anatomy and cinema". tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  13. ^ "New book: All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film". southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  14. ^ "Award-winning film screening AFO58: Constanta". afo.cz. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  15. ^ "AWARDS FOR GERMAN FILMS & CO-PRODUCTIONS AT GUANAJUATO 2022". german-films.de. August 2022. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  16. ^ "THESE ARE THE WINNING NAMES OF INDIELISBOA 2022". indielisboa.com. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  17. ^ "IFFR 2022 competitions: coming soon". iffr.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  18. ^ "CPH:DOX UNVEILS ITS FULL FILM PROGRAMME". cphdox.dk. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  19. ^ "A DEMONSTRATION (2021)". fif-85.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  20. ^ "The Best Short Films of Berlinale 2020". directorsnotes.com. 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2022-12-06.