James Sansing
James SANSING (USA) has been making experimental films for 30 years. He is a graduate from San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied with Ernie Gehr, Lawrence Jordan, Janice Lipzin, George Kuchar and Craig Baldwin. Sansing’s films have been featured at many festivals worldwide, including Ann Arbor Film Festival, IFFR, New York Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival and Images Film Festival, among others. He has won many awards and residencies including from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Pirkle Jones Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts and Princess Grace Foundation, among others.
Filmography
(all short, selection) Still Life In Motion (1993), Caress (1995), Tunnel Vision (2003), Birds (2005), Forsaken (2010), Verses (2012), Unfinished Film: Part 1 (2015) Unfinished Film: Part 2 (2017), A Light Unseen (2024)
James Sansing op IFFR
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A Light Unseen
James Sansing | 10' | USA | International premiere
The beautiful and near-invisible world of spiderwebs as you’ve never seen before! -
Verses
James Sansing | 4' | USA | International premiere
Animation made from mould-damaged juvenile hall ledgers. Full of Rorschach-like patterns that reveal detention’s impact on young inmates.