Ben Thorp Brown
Ben Thorp BROWN (1983, USA) is an artist, filmmaker and teacher. He studied at Williams College, School of the Art Institute in Chicago and in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He works across a number of artistic disciplines including video, photography, sculpture and performance. His work often addresses themes like technology, memory and embodied experience. He lives and works in New York.
Filmografie
(selection, all short) Open Outcry (2013), Toymakers (2014), Drowned World (2016), Gropius Memory Palace (2018), Cura (2020)
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Ben Thorp Brown op IFFR
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Cura
Ben Thorp Brown | 17' | France | World premiere
In a modernist house in Los Angeles, a large tortoise speaks and sings about the role empathy plays in times of great ecological and social… -
Gropius Memory Palace
Ben Thorp Brown | 20' | Germany | World premiere
Through a guided meditation performed by a hypnotherapist, viewers are invited to construct a ‘memory palace’ as they experience Walter Gropius’s icon