Kim Anno has been dedicated to experimental film/video since 2010. She began these works as experimental puppet shows, having been influenced by Vietnamese water puppets, she filled tanks of water with objects and shot small narratives with ink and objects matriculating in the water. Over time her focus expanded to include, plants, animals, people, and iconic texts from Ancient Greece, Dante, Virgil, and others. She was emboldened to reinvent the cannon of Western literature and philosophy. 

Water Town

This is the May pole dance of young people with the text of an adapted Oedipus Rex, edited to

democratize the text, democratize the references to the king, and swap them with references to the “People” The young people are doing a circumambulation of a set of oars from the crew team. This is a short video for galleries/museum viewing.

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Canto One

Collaboration with Charles Woodman, experimental animation, Anno directed the sound score, with Anno’s adaptation of Dante’s Purgatorio Canto 1, making the text secular, and she created the sound design. Keisha Kemper and Michael Burham were the actor's voices.

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Natural

Experimental video for Sonoma County Museum of Art, this video references the fires in Northern California, Plato’s Cave, the settling of the west and its problems.  It was made in 2018. 

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Johannesburg

This is an experimental video shot and edited by Kim Anno, and music by Kristina Dutton band. 
It was shot on a roof top in downtown Johannesburg. 

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Mirror

This was made inside the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, as Anno was highlighting objects from the collection and liberating them through movement. 2012

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Praxis

This is a short video of Jose Navarrete and Deby Kajiyama dancing underwater, with a house they made as a result of their experience visiting Fukushima, after the earthquake. Sound are buddhist monks, urban life. directed by Kim Anno

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Peaceable Kingdom

This is a two channel version video shot in South Africa at a Lion preserve. It references human interaction, dominance of wild animals such as this white lion. Music by Adam Carlin. 

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Durban 2012

This is a short video of two young men watching the sea as they listen to the traditional singing of young women from Kwazulunatal. 

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Falling

This is an image of the Fall of the Roman Republic paperback flapping in a tank of water with the picture of the pge explosion in the silicon valley where a person was killed.  The book is the angel here. Suzy Thompson plays the violin music for this work.