Hartford, Connecticut

anna.e.hogg@gmail.com
@annahoggfilms

About

Anna Hogg is a teaching artist and filmmaker whose practice indulges in the impossible and the unknowable, exploring these fields as productive sites for play and wild flights of imagination. Her work challenges human-centered narratives, instead positing nonhuman entities, more-than-human beings, and entire ecosystems as active agents.

Central to her investigation is how humans and technology—cinema, archives, surveillance systems, the Anthropocene—shape memory, knowledge, and regimes of truth. She excavates technology’s gaps, dissonances, limits, and failures, finding in these spaces opportunities to speculate alternate ways of knowing or even revel in unknowability itself. Storytelling itself becomes the framework for analysis and critical engagement, often using the framework of Ursula K. LeGuin’s carrier bag theory of fiction as a point of departure. Whether examining archives, cinema apparatus, surveillance technology, or ecosystems nonfiction, her works cultivate criticality in viewers, opening spaces for reflection, analysis, and potentially new epistemologies.

Grounded in an experimental ethos, her practice spans film, video, animation, sculpture, and installation. In her time-based work, the form of each project is determined by the subject and the intersecting frameworks of documentary, narrative, essay, and poetic film practices. Her projects might imagine nonhuman subjects navigating mazes, blend image and sound as extensions of stream-of-consciousness, re-perform audio recordings through verbatim theatre techniques, or transform spaces into large-scale camera obscures for time-lapse studies of the body in motion. These works deliberately transgress genre boundaries and disciplinary discourse. She has ongoing collaborations with Conrad Cheung and Katie Baer Schetlick as part of the artist collective, nonhumanities.

Her films have screened internationally, including Crossroads Film Festival, Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Kasseler DokFest, Chicago Underground Film Festival, San Diego Underground Film Festival, and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. She was awarded the Jury prize for Best International Work at the 2017 WNDX Festival, and nominated for the Golden Key award at the 2017 Kasseler DokFest. In 2023, she co-directed and co-founded the inaugural event of the Odds & Ends Film Festival with Light House Studio. She holds an MFA in Film & Video from the California Institute of the Arts and now teaches Cinema at the University of Hartford.