Anna Barsan is a filmmaker and artist who tells stories and creates multimedia projects that engage with the intersections of ecology, technology, power, and history. Barsan’s films and installations consider themes of migration, surveillance, memory, archive, and social movements, often seeking out erasures and omissions in public records and historical narratives.
Collaborative and interdisciplinary, Barsan’s practice is rooted in relationships and in the cross pollination of diverse spheres from science fiction to somatics. Working alongside community organizers, educators, and technologists, she prioritizes participatory practices such as building shared archives and co-creating public performances. Anna conceives of filmmaking as an embodied process of listening, reciprocity, and mysterious dialogue between the human and more than human worlds.
Anna’s work has been featured at Sundance, HotDocs, Camden International Film Festival, Rooftop Films Summer Series, The Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum and published by Field of Vision, The New Yorker, Art21 and Democracy Now. As an educator, she has taught at the School for Visual Arts, Boston University, Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba, and coordinated workshops in filmmaking and live video performance at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit. Anna is currently at work on both short and long-form projects including her feature film, Softly in all directions, with support from Field of Vision, the LEF Foundation, and the Sundance Institute.
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