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PIAFFE

Ann Oren
Germany, 2022
86 min.

Up to where can obsession lead you? Meek Eva grows a mysterious horsetail as she struggles to create foley sounds for a commercial featuring a horse. Her new tail brings liberation as she finds herself on a journey of self-discovery and experimentation.

Piaffe’s sparse dialogue allows for its visceral 16mm images to do the talking. A feeling of tactile intimacy transpires through the texture and grain of the film strip, reinforcing a caring, attentive gaze that is cast upon humans, animals and plants alike. Delicacy, fragility and arousal are blended together in a lushly colored exploration of otherness, with Eva’s mysterious horsetail also making room for a touch of light-hearted whimsicalness. Not completely innocent, but far from perverse, Ann Oren’s film is a playful and sensitive tale of self and sexual discovery, where the cerebral and the meta-cinematic meet a soft, gentle eroticism. (Dora Leu, BIEFF 2022)

Date and Location

29th of September, 20:30, Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Ann Oren

Born in Tel Aviv, Ann Oren is a visual artist and filmmaker. She studied Film (BA) and Fine Arts (MA) at The School of Visual Arts, NY. Her artworks have been presented in institutions including The Moscow Biennale for Young Art, The Hammer museum, The Tel-Aviv Museum, Anthology Film Archives, Apexart and KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst. After moving to Berlin in 2015, her artistic focus started to shift from video art and installations to cinema. She directed Passage in 2020, a 16mm short film that serves as a prequel to Piaffe, which premiered in Oberhausen Short Film Festival, and won many awards including Best Experimental Short at Slamdance.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • WRITERS: Ann Oren, Thais Guisasola
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Carlos Vasquez
  • EDITING: Ann Oren, Haim Tabakman
  • EDITING CONSULTANT: Benjamin Mirguet
  • SOUND CONCEPT/SOUND MIX: Robert Hefter
  • SOUND DESIGN: Danylo Okulov
  • SET DESIGN: Ilaria Di Carlo
  • HAIR & SFX MAKE-UP ARTIST: Sada Leigh Sherrin
  • COSTUME DESIGN: Anna Philippa Müller
  • MUSIC: Munsha, äbvsd, VTSS
  • CAST: Simone Bucio, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau, Sebastian Rudolph, Bjørn Melhus,Sarah Nevada Grether, Lea Draeger, Josef Ostendorf, Hannah Müller, Ruth Rosenfeld, Catherine Mayer, Dini & Isi Komolka, Samuel Eschmann, Kristof Gerega, Daniel Matis, Nico Ehrenteit, Sophie Ruston

PRODUCERS: Kristof Gerega, Sophie Ahrens, Fabian Altenried

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