Karen Yasinsky
Karen YASINSKY (1965, USA) is an artist working primarily with animation and drawing. She studied art history and mathemathics at Duke University in Durham and received a master’s degree in painting from Yale University. Her video installations and drawings have been shown in many venues internationally and with her animations she was present at several film festivals worldwide.
Filmografie
(all short) Drop That Baby Again (1998), No Place Like Home #1 & 2 (1999), Fear (2001), Research of Time’s Loss (2001), Still Life with Cows (2002), Boys (2002), Animal Behaviour (2003), Who’s your true love? (2003), La matin (2007), La nuit (2008), I Choose Darkness (2009), Enough to Drive You Mad (2009), Marie (2010), This Room is White (2011), Pools of Shadow from an Older Sky (2011), Pathetic Magic (2011), Life is an Opinion, Fire a Fact (2012), Audition (2010), The Lonely Life of Debby Adams (2013), After Hours (2013), The Perpetual Motion of my Love for You (2015), The Man from Hong Kong (2016)
Karen Yasinsky at IFFR
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Life Is an Opinion, Fire a Fact
The self-immolation of a character from Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia triggers a meditation on faith and irrevocable actions. A haunting play with music and
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Signals: Regained
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Audition
Frames from Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie trigger a beautiful study in dot-matrix printing, mysteriously followed by vintage Japanese ph
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Signals: Regained
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A Woman in Trouble Is a Temporary Thing
A fictional film portrait of Victoria Legrand of the band Beach House, set in a vague dystopian space.
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Wait and See
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The Man from Hong Kong
Attractive collage combining the soundtrack of a 1975 Bruce Lee vehicle with French fashion photography and amateur films from the American middle cla
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Deep Focus
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Regained
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I Choose Darkness
For this deadpan, and yet moving puppet animation, Karen Yasinsky used Robert Bresson’s film Au hasard Balthazar as a starting point.
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Break Even Store
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Signals - RE: Reloaded
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