Beny Wagner

Beny Wagner (born 1985) is a German artist, filmmaker and author.[1][2][3] He is known for his films Constant and A Demonstration.[4][5]

Beny Wagner
Wagner in Berlin, 2020
Born1985 (age 37–38)
Berlin, Germany
Alma materBard College, Jan van Eyck Academie
Occupation(s)Artist, filmmaker, author
Notable workConstant (2020 film)
A Demonstration (2022 film)
Websitebenywagner.com

Early life and education

Wagner was born in 1985 in Berlin.[6]

Wagner graduated with a bachelor of arts from Bard College in 2008, and was a postgraduate fellow at Jan van Eyck Academie in 2015-2016.[7][1]

Career

He was a lecturer of fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, between 2017 and 2021.[8] His debut short film Eye Farm, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017.[9]

In 2020, Wagner co-directed A Demonstration, together with his long-term collaborator Sasha Litvintseva, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and screened at the Museum of the Moving Image and the Vancouver International Film Festival.[10][11] The film was the first of their Monsters, Measures, and Metabolisms project.[11]

In 2022, he collaborated again with Sasha Litvintseva on Constant, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at CPH:DOX and the Open City Documentary Festival.[12][13] The film documents how officialdom dictates how things are measured, and incorporates a range of cinematographic techniques, including photogrammetry and 360-degree cameras.[14]

As of February 2023, the team were working on the feature film My Want of You Partakes of Me, the final film in the trilogy.[15]

Filmography
Year Title Contribution
TBH My Want of You Partakes of Me Director, editor, cinematographer and producer
2022 Constant Director, editor, cinematographer and producer
2020 A Demonstration Director, writer, editor
2018 Outside Director, writer, editor, cinematographer and producer
2017 We're All Here Director, writer, editor and producer
2017 Eye Farm Director, writer, editor, cinematographer and producer

Publications
  • 2021 – All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film (co-written with Sasha Litvintseva)[16]
  • 2011 – Part-Time Pioneer

Awards and nominations
Year Result Award Category Work Ref.
2022 Won Guanajuato International Film Festival Best Documentary Short Film Constant [17]
Nominated International Film Festival Rotterdam Ammodo Tiger Shorts Award [18]
Nominated CPH:DOX New Vision Award [19]
2021 Nominated La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival Prix Nouvelles Vagues Acuitis A Demonstration [20]
2020 Nominated Berlin International Film Festival Best Short Film [21]

References
  1. "Beny Wagner". southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  2. "What a Film Can and Can't Do: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner Interviewed by Jussi Parikka". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  3. "OPENINGS: BENY WAGNER". artforum.com. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  4. "Information as a music video, comedy as a diagram: Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva in conversation". sensesofcinema.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  5. "A Demonstration". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  6. "Director Beny Wagner and Sasha Litvintseva on „A Demonstration" and the short form / interview". shortsblog.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  7. "Traveling Sync". janvaneyck.nl. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  8. "EMAP RESIDENTS 2022: BENY WAGNER AND SASHA LITVINTSEVA". impakt.nl. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  9. "Eye Farm". iffr.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  10. "A Demonstration". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  11. Rizov, Vadim (2022-03-17). "DIY Photogrammetry: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner on Constant | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  12. "Constant". iffr.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  13. "A Conversation With Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner(CONSTANT)". hammertonail.com. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  14. Parikka, Jussi (31 March 2022). "BOMB Magazine | What a Film Can and Can't Do: Sasha Litvintseva and…". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2023-03-11.
  15. "Talk by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner: My Want of You Partakes of Me". recntr.nl. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  16. "New book: All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film". southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  17. "AWARDS FOR GERMAN FILMS & CO-PRODUCTIONS AT GUANAJUATO 2022". german-films.de. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  18. "IFFR 2022 competitions: coming soon". iffr.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  19. "CPH:DOX UNVEILS ITS FULL FILM PROGRAMME". cphdox.dk. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  20. "A DEMONSTRATION (2021)". fif-85.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  21. "The Best Short Films of Berlinale 2020". directorsnotes.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
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