Ariana Gerstein works across media, analog and digital, emphasizing older and/ or inexpensive processes and tools (used against purpose) to push back against the drive towards ever more automated, maximalist, generalized, industrial models.

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Emphasis is on thinking with subjects through cinematic texture, space and time to engage with the effects of perception on our relationships to information and experience.  

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Her work has received support through grants from the New York Foundation on the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She enjoys teaching experimental animation (both analog and digital), hybrid filmmaking and video, stereoscopy, and projection with found and hand-made screens, both inside and on buildings.

 

Screenings include the New York Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Cinematheque, European Media Arts Festival, Media City, 25FPS, with recognition also through the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film and most Technically Innovative Film from Ann Arbor Film Festival, Golden Gate Award from San Francisco International Film Festival, a Truer Than Fiction/Independent Spirit Award in collaboration with Monteith McCollum, grants through Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, New York Council on the Arts, New York Foundation of the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and Illinois Arts Council.

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Professor Gerstein received her MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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She is the Graduate Director of the MFA in Cinema at Binghamton University