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 YearTitle 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 YearResultAwardCategoryWorkRef.2023 WonAcademia Film OlomoucBest FilmConstant2022 WonGuanajuato International Film FestivalBest Documentary Short Film WonIndieLisboaBest Short Film NominatedInternational Film Festival RotterdamAmmodo Tiger Shorts Award NominatedCPH:DOXNew Vision Award2021 NominatedLa Roche-sur-Yon International Film FestivalPrix Nouvelles Vagues AcuitisA Demonstration2020 NominatedBerlin International Film FestivalBest Short Film
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Monsters, Measures and Metabolisms