Helen Anna Flanagan
Helen Anna FLANAGAN (Birmingham, UK) is an artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam. Influenced by popular culture and shaped by her working-class background, her films examine how we navigate our place in society and how we construct our understanding of ourselves and others. The result is a subjective, associative investigation into themes such as performance and agency, social class and collectivity, language and emotion, overlooked histories and media, and everyday forms of resistance.
Flanagan’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including FACT, WIELS, IKOB, Museum M, Focal Point Gallery, M HKA, Netwerk Aalst, bb15 and NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, with her films screening at festivals such as IFFR, Sharjah Film Platform, Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Go Short, B3, MIX NYC and CIFF. Her work was awarded the IKOB Feminist Art Prize, the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize and the second prize of Art Contest Brussels.
Filmography
(all short) Friday (2016), The Dynamists (2017), Swamps & Ponds (2018), Gestures of Collapse (2019), Gestures of Anatomy (2019), Gestures of Matter (2020), And then she said… (2021), Deeply, Madly (2022), The Gap (2023), Burnt Toast (2025)
More Info: Helen Anna Flanagan
Helen Anna Flanagan at IFFR
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Burnt Toast
Helen Anna Flanagan | 25' | Netherlands | World premiere (festival)
A contemporary ghost story that blurs the line between illusion and performance. -
Deeply, Madly
Helen Anna Flanagan | 27' | Netherlands | World premiere (festival)
Be carried by the waves, until they break. A woman muses on her fear of falling.
