Andrew Norman Wilson
Andrew Norman WILSON (1983, USA) is a visual artist, filmmaker, curator and lecturer based between Europe and the US. He works in video, sculpture, photography and performance. The aesthetics of corporate America, the economics of production and the mysteries of technology are recurring themes in his work, which engages audiences at a pre-cognitive level. Wilson obtained an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. He is best known for Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011), in which Wilson critically examined Google’s labour practices. His work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Getty Museum, Centre Pompidou, LUMA Arles, MoMA PS1 and the Gwangju and Berlin Biennials. Festival screenings include Sundance, the New York Film Festival and IFFR. Wilson has lectured at Oxford University, Harvard University, Universität der Künste Berlin and CalArts. His semi-biographical fiction Kodak had its international premiere at IFFR 2019, competing in the Tiger Short Competition. Returning to Rotterdam in 2020, Wilson premiered Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome as part of the Bright Future programme.
Filmography
(selection, all short) Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011), Free (2012), SONE S/S 2014 (2014), The Unthinkable Bygone (2016), Reality Models (2016), Ode to Seekers 2012 (2016), Kodak (2018), In the Air Tonight (2020), Impersonator (2021), Silvesterchlausen (2024)
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Andrew Norman Wilson op IFFR
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Silvesterchlausen
Andrew Norman Wilson | 12' | USA | World premiere
On New Year’s Eve strange and beautiful things take place in the Swiss Appenzell. -
Impersonator
Andrew Norman Wilson | 17' | USA | None
Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET -
In the Air Tonight
Andrew Norman Wilson | 11' | USA | None
Andrew Norman Wilson sheds his fascinating light on the meaning of Phil Collins’ 1980 hit ‘In the Air Tonight’. -
Kodak
Andrew Norman Wilson | 33' | USA | International premiere
In 2012, Kodak went bankrupt. Enter the mind’s eye of a blind former Kodak film technician, reconstructing the past in hallucinatory detail. -
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome
Andrew Norman Wilson | 14' | USA | World premiere
In this tongue-twister of a tale, camera zooms break open the domestic cocoon and pull us into the world of Pokémon.