Quick Facts
Biography
Beny Wagner (born 1985) is an artist, filmmaker and author. He is known for his films Constant and A Demonstration.
Early life and education
Wagner was born in 1985 in Berlin.
Wagner graduated with a bachelor of arts from Bard College in 2008, and was a postgraduate fellow at Jan van Eyck Academie in 2015-2016.
Career
Wagner's first short film Eye Farm, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017.
In 2020, Wagner co-directed A Demonstration, together with his long-term collaborator Sasha Litvintseva, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and screened at the Museum of the Moving Image and the Vancouver International Film Festival.
In 2022, he collaborated again with Sasha Litvintseva on Constant, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at CPH:DOX and the Open City Documentary Festival. The film is a social and political history of measurement standardization, and incorporates a range of cinematographic techniques, including photogrammetry and 360-degree cameras.
In November 2023, the third film in their trilogy My Want of You Partakes of Me was screened at Tate Modern.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| TBH | My Want of You Partakes of Me | Director, editor, cinematographer and producer |
| 2022 | Constant | Director, editor, cinematographer and producer |
| 2020 | A Demonstration | Director, writer, editor |
| 2018 | Outside | Director, writer, editor, cinematographer and producer |
| 2017 | We're All Here | Director, writer, editor and producer |
| 2017 | Eye Farm | Director, writer, editor, cinematographer and producer |
Publications
- 2021 – All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film (co-written with Sasha Litvintseva)
- 2011 – Part-Time Pioneer
Awards and nominations
| Year | Result | Award | Category | Work | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Won | Academia Film Olomouc | Best Film | Constant | |
| 2022 | Won | Guanajuato International Film Festival | Best Documentary Short Film | ||
| Won | IndieLisboa | Best Short Film | |||
| Nominated | International Film Festival Rotterdam | Ammodo Tiger Shorts Award | |||
| Nominated | CPH:DOX | New Vision Award | |||
| 2021 | Nominated | La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival | Prix Nouvelles Vagues Acuitis | A Demonstration | |
| 2020 | Nominated | Berlin International Film Festival | Best Short Film |
