Emma rozanski
BIOGRAPHY
Emma Rozanski - filmmaker & moving-image artist
Emma is an Australian filmmaker, multi-media artist and an MFA graduate of Bela Tarr’s film.factory in Sarajevo. Her debut feature-length film, PAPAGAJKA (The Parrot) had its World Premiere at the South by Southwest [SXSW] Film Festival and continued on to a successful festival run worldwide. Emma’s moving image works have been selected for over 300 festivals and exhibitions worldwide and won several awards. She is an alumnus of the Torino Film Lab, Berlinale Talents, the Berlinale Short Film Station and the Reykjavík Talent Lab.
Emma recently completed a 3-channel video installation called WALDEN [verb] which is an experimental adaptation of Henry David Thoreau's ‘Walden’, and her second feature film, EL VAQUERO (filmed in Colombia, Emma’s first Spanish-language film), is in the final stages of post-production. Emma is based in Bogota, Colombia.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Emma explores the ephemeral side of human nature – the emotion, creation and destruction. As a filmmaker and video artist, her work combines different techniques and narrative structures for existential discussions on psychology and human folly. A strong sense of aesthetic stylization frames her ideas. Emma creates symbolic puzzles, with a desire is to disrupt viewer expectations and defy genre expectations. Playful undertones of absurdism within her work reveals a love for lateral thinking and a strength of imagination. Emma’s narrative film work tends towards character-based stories with other-worldly touches. Fascinated by moral ambiguity and heightened-drama, her practice usually delves into these realms – creating worlds that symbolically externalize the inner-psychology of character.
NARRATIVE FILMOGRAPHY / LINKS [full list of film and art work HERE]
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El VAQUERO [93 min / Color / 5.1 / 2024] - in post-production - Go to site
PAPAGAJKA [82 mins / Color / 5.1 / 2016] - Go to site
PANGAEA [8.5 mins / Color / Stereo / 2015] - Go to Site
SCUFFLE [6 mins / Color / Stereo / 2014] - Watch
CAMPERS [15 mins / Color / Stereo / 2012] - Watch
THE STORYMAKER [12 mins / Color / Stereo / 2009] - Watch
THE WHISPER STOP [8.5 mins / Color / Stereo / 2007] - Watch
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1 MIN PROMO REEL - Watch
DRAMA REEL - Watch
[List of screenings and exhibitions HERE]