Andrea Sisson
Andrea Sisson[1] is an American is a social practice and interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles (b. 1987 Cincinnati, Ohio). They are a 2010 Fulbright Fellow hold an MFA from Bard College, Milton Avery School of the Arts.
Work[]
Their medium spans filmmaking and video, image and sound based works, participatory projects, and writing.
Sisson has been a visiting artist at Carnegie Mellon, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and her work has been shown at São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, Poetic Research Bureau in Los Angeles, Swapmeet at High Desert Test Sites, the Contemporary Art Center, several film festivals including Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and broadcast on SFE ART TV at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and on European public television stations. They’ve been a resident at PAM Residencies Los Angeles and Alternative Worksite in Roanoke, VA. Andrea also holds a peer Counseling Certificate from Southern California Counseling Center. Andrea has founded a Mental Health group for artists, was a volunteer with the 2020 Los Angeles Artist’s Census, and co-founded and ran a small experiential film studio for five years (2012-2017) as a producer, director, and maker on projects.
Sisson's experimental hybrid-documentary I Send You This Place,[2] (made in part by the U.S. Fulbright Foundation) was an official selection of the 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the 2012 Reykjavík International Film Festival, and New York's Video Art & Experimental Film Festival. Following this, Sisson and collaborator Pete Ohs were named on the list of "25 New Faces of Indie Film" by Filmmaker in 2013.
Sisson directed the widely-enjoyed film for Nowness, a short film which breaks down the complicated choreography of the popular video for 's "Chandelier" into hilarious references that even a non-dancer could understand.[3] She is co-director, producer, and visual designer of the independent film Everything Beautiful is Far Away premiering at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival, starring Julia Garner, and taking home the U.S. Cinematography Award.
Sisson's solo and collaborative work has been shown at the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Dallas Contemporary, and Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.
Andrea Sisson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, lives in Los Angeles, California, and is a current MFA candidate at the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College.
References[]
- ^ Sisson, Andrea. "Andrea Sisson". Andreasisson.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^ RAPOLD, NICOLAS. "Heady Times in Exotic Iceland". nytimes.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^ Bess, Gabby. "SIA'S CHOREOGRAPHER TEACHES YOU HOW TO "CHANDELIER"". Papermag.com. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
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