Ana Cigon
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- Editor
- Writer
Ana Cigon (1982) is an artist most active in video, film and performance. She began making video art in 2007 for which she has latter received acknowledgments in Slovenia as well as abroad. In 2009 she was the winner of OHO Award for which she received an artist residency in New York. She was also a finalist for the Slovenia Henkel Award and a finalist for the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Award.
After 7 years of making video art she in 2015 finished her first documentary film Remembering the Others. She has since directed two more documentary films (Flow / Tok and Heroines / Heroinat) and three short animations (Francka, Macho in Rebellious Essence). Her documentary films mostly address feminist and social issues.
Her projects tackle social and feminist topics, such as under-representation of women in historical narration, invisible social groups, relation subject-society, pursuit of happiness and such. Her works often contain elements of humor, irony, and satire and her artworks are not limited to one media.
She has presented her films in film festivals all over the world and she exhibits her works in solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and internationally. For her last animation Rebellious Essence, which was presented in festival programs on four continents, she received an audience choice award at Leeds Queer Film Festival in United Kingdom.