Andrea Pagnes
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Andrea Pagnes is a Venetian-born artist and writer. Since 2006, he has worked with German artist Verena Stenke as VestAndPage internationally in performance art, performance-based film, writing, publishing and temporary artistic community projects. Since 2010, he has been devoted to experimental performance-based filmmaking, producing feature-length films, silent films, numerous shorts, art videos and interview series. In 2020, he published the manifesto on performance-based filmmaking: "Poetics of Relations". Pagnes holds degrees in philosophy and modern literature and has worked as an actor and operator of Applied Theatre, as well as artistic director, independent curator and glass sculptor.
VestAndPage's independent filmmaking and art practice is contextual and situation-responsive, conceived psychogeographically in response to natural surroundings, social contexts, historical sites and architectures. They are devoted to a poetic approach to experimental, philosophical filmmaking through which to examine the evolution from original documentation of performative acts toward complexly contextual, non-linear storytelling. Rooted both in film history and performance art history, their aesthetic has been termed magical realism, surrealism, hyperrealism, and psychomagical. They further commit to film as a mnemonic archive for testimonial purposes and produce conversations and interviews on existential topics with people from the arts, culture and science.
VestAndPage's independent filmmaking and art practice is contextual and situation-responsive, conceived psychogeographically in response to natural surroundings, social contexts, historical sites and architectures. They are devoted to a poetic approach to experimental, philosophical filmmaking through which to examine the evolution from original documentation of performative acts toward complexly contextual, non-linear storytelling. Rooted both in film history and performance art history, their aesthetic has been termed magical realism, surrealism, hyperrealism, and psychomagical. They further commit to film as a mnemonic archive for testimonial purposes and produce conversations and interviews on existential topics with people from the arts, culture and science.