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Janie Geiser is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes performance, film, installation, and art. Geiser’s work is known for its recontextualization of abandoned images and objects, its embrace of artifice, and its investigation of memory, power, and loss. Geiser is a Guggenheim Fellow, a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, and a Creative Capital awardee. Geiser received the 2023 Stan Brakhage Vision Award, presented to a filmmaker “whose work pushes the limits in avant-garde and experimental filmmaking.” She was recently awarded 2025-26 Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island.
ne of the pioneers of the renaissance of American avant-garde puppet theater, Geiser creates innovative, hypnotic performances and installations that integrate performing objects, puppets, and projection. Her work has been presented at The Public Theater, the Wende Museum, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Redcat, The Walker Art Center, and The Getty Villa. Geiser’s performances have been recognized with an OBIE Award, a Bessie, and funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, NEA, Center for Cultural Innovation, MapFund, the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, a City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship, and a Getty Villa Theater Lab commission.
“Geiser gives voice to the reaches of the unconscious, pointing to the abandoned splendor that exists prior to the rules of society and language.” (—Holly Willis, Res, 2004).
Geiser’s films have been screened at the National Gallery of Art, Microscope Gallery, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, MOMA, Pacific Film Archives, the Centre Pompidou, the Salzburg Museum, San Francisco MOMA, LACMA, the Sharjah Biennial, and NY Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Oberhausen Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, and Hong Kong International Film Festival.
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IMMER ZU
1997 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 8' 50 / 30 € distribution: 16mm |
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THE SECRET STORY
1996 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 8' 50 / 30 € distribution: 16mm |
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THE RED BOOK
1994 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 11' 00 / 38 € distribution: 16mm |