Category: Video Art
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Sydney Launch of ‘How to Knit a Human’
I had a special trip to Sydney to launch my memoir ‘How to Knit a Human’ at Marrickville Library and Pavillon, with a 30-minute screening of my video art that included readings from my book. The premiere took place on 17 June 2024, and the video art is available to watch below. Thank you to…
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When Dreams Turn Archaeological
Thank you to poet and academic Dr Jane Frank for interviewing me and writing a paper about my dream-inspired poetry and video art. ‘When dreams turn archaeological: the poetic dreamscapes of Anna Jacobson’ is freely available to view in Text.
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Out from the Mist – Short Movie Winner
I feel honoured to win the Australia Asia Film Group Prize in the Out from the Mist Short Movie category. My work Setting Free Anxiety Like a Fistful of Birds can be viewed below and will be screened on AusAsia TV online. The Out from the Mist (Representations of Mental Health) exhibition at Superordinary in…
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week Two
Below is my week two work-in-progress from my video poem ‘Why is this Passover Night Different?’, as part of MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency. I was inspired by the experience of cooking matzah balls with my Mum this year. To create this animation, I used digital collage techniques. I cut out the matzah ball shape…
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week One
Welcome to my week one update! Below is an animation-sketch from the opening of my video poem, ‘Festive Meal’, which I am creating thanks to MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency. This looped sequence contains seventeen drawings! Usually I would peel twenty eggs for the Passover meal; one egg for each person. As we couldn’t celebrate…
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Optica12
My video work ‘Travelling House’ is installed in the shop front windows of the Judith Wright Centre in Brisbane, during the month of October 2011 and was selected as part of Optica12. ‘Travelling House’ features footage from my travels in 2010 superimposed over an old house in Brisbane. Themes of the journey and diaspora are…
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Sydney Fringe Festival
You are warmly invited to attend a screening of Anna’s video work ‘Out of the Mist’, which was selected to be part of PUFF (Poetry Underground Film Festival) at Sydney Fringe. The screening is at Madame Fling Flong, Level 1, 169 King St, Newtown NSW on Monday 13 September 2010, 6.30pm
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Queensland Poetry Festival FilmMakers Challenge
On Sunday 23 August Anna was declared winner of the Queensland Poetry Festival FilmMakers Challenge for her video work ‘Of Ochres and Ruins’. The finalists were screened at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art as part of the 2009 Queensland Poetry Festival.
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Doll Awakenings Exhibition at QCP
You are warmly invited to celebrate the opening of my Doll Awakenings exhibition at the Queensland Centre for Photography where I am showing some video works. Exhibiting artists: ‘Doll Awakenings’ by Anna Jacobson, ‘Birds’ by Marian Drew, ‘Natural Progression’ by Paul McCann, ‘123 Days’ by Adrianne Hayward and Aaron Burton and ‘Under Currents’ by Lindy…