Andrea Sisson is a multidisciplinary visual artist who creates films, photos and performance art pieces for the design, art and fashion industries. Her work has been shown online and offline, in places like the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound and on Nowness, where she featured Sia’s choreographer Ryan Heffington. She’s the co-director of Everything Beautiful is Far Away, a pop art sci-fi feature currently in post-production, and a feature documentary I Send You This Place, which Andrea made as a 2010 Fulbright Design Fellow. In 2013, Andrea and her husband Pete Ohs were selected as a duo for […]...
- 11/6/2015
- by Andrea Sisson and Pete Ohs
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Andrea Sisson is a multidisciplinary visual artist who creates films, photos and performance art pieces for the design, art and fashion industries. Her work has been shown online and offline, in places like the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound and on Nowness, where she featured Sia’s choreographer Ryan Heffington. She’s the co-director of Everything Beautiful is Far Away, a pop art sci-fi feature currently in post-production, and a feature documentary I Send You This Place, which Andrea made as a 2010 Fulbright Design Fellow. In 2013, Andrea and her husband Pete Ohs were selected as a duo for […]...
- 11/6/2015
- by Andrea Sisson and Pete Ohs
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
I met Andrea Sisson and Pete Ohs (collectively/creatively know as Lauren Edward -- their middle names) the night their documentary I Send You This Place screened at WestFest, an experiment in micro-festing put on here in Los Angelese by the fairtrade filmmmaking site Seed&Spark. I had curated a pair of films that would be playing the final night, but made it a priority to attend all three evening of the fest. As the short block of credits rolled for their film I knew instantly that I wanted to speak with the married couple about the journey they had just shared with us... and what was next. I Send You This Place is a documentary of emotions, gauged, weighted and balanced by the environment these vessels...
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- 11/11/2013
- Screen Anarchy
The fair trade filmmaking site Seed&Spark is running a little experiment in the festival arena and it's all going down Tuesday, October 1 through Thursday October 3 at the Hub La. Now, full disclosure, I'll be participating with the closing night program which features one of my favorite film from 2012, The Slamdance premiering The Sound Of Small Things and the short film True Colours. The other nights include Sundance programming associate Christine Davila presenting the indie-rock film The Crumbles, and Seed&Spark founder-ceo Emily Best hosting a screening of the travelogue I Send You This Place, with filmmakers Andrea Sisson & Pete Ohs in attendance. So, why is this worth your attention? Well, for the price of a latte you can get a whole evening's...
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- 9/30/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Experimental Love Letter To Iceland’s Therapeutic Vistas
Films are, for the most part, classified as either narrative or non-fiction. Samples of the docu’s format line’s being blurred have become more prevalent in the last decade than ever before, as is the case with the hard-to-define picture, experimental, catchall category that Andrea Sisson and Pete Ohs’ debut feature I Send You This Place belongs to. Although it is essentially a non-fictional film, its construction appears more in line with something from a video-art exposition at a museum. It doesn’t follow a pattern, or tries to clearly expose an issue, or an extraordinary person’s life; it is, at least from its synopsis, about a journey to understand mental illness. Be warned, it is much more metaphorical than what most viewers can handle.
Divided in 9 chapters, which is strange since the film barely reaches the feature-length mark at about 68 minutes,...
Films are, for the most part, classified as either narrative or non-fiction. Samples of the docu’s format line’s being blurred have become more prevalent in the last decade than ever before, as is the case with the hard-to-define picture, experimental, catchall category that Andrea Sisson and Pete Ohs’ debut feature I Send You This Place belongs to. Although it is essentially a non-fictional film, its construction appears more in line with something from a video-art exposition at a museum. It doesn’t follow a pattern, or tries to clearly expose an issue, or an extraordinary person’s life; it is, at least from its synopsis, about a journey to understand mental illness. Be warned, it is much more metaphorical than what most viewers can handle.
Divided in 9 chapters, which is strange since the film barely reaches the feature-length mark at about 68 minutes,...
- 6/12/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- IONCINEMA.com
The following interview was conducted earlier in the year to coincide with the New York festival premiere of I Send You This Place. It is republished here to mark the start of the film’s theatrical release at the reRun Theater today. The debut film from husband and wife team Peter Ohs and Andrea Sisson (also known collectively as Lauren Edward, a composite of their middle names), I Send You This Place is a very unconventional documentary which tackles themes of mental health, creativity and the natural world through the prism of the couple’s trip to Iceland. Gorgeously shot and made …...
- 6/7/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Narcissism and pretentiousness vie for supremacy in I Send You This Place, a pseudo-documentary in which co-director (and constant screen presence) Andrea Sisson wanders around Iceland because she believes its landscape of wintry clouds, mountains, winds, and colors will allow her to understand the head space of her schizophrenic brother, Jake. Often in conversation with co-director Pete Ohs, Sisson narrates faux-poetic ruminations about spirituality, nature, and doorways (representations of possibilities!) over scenes of her traversing snowy plains and sitting in barren rooms while decked out in headphones and oversize coats. All of it edited with look-at-me affectation, scored to droning piano and guitar, and accompanied by random interludes of white line drawings (and running...
- 6/7/2013
- Village Voice
The debut film from husband and wife team Peter Ohs and Andrea Sisson (also known collectively as Lauren Edward, a composite of their middle names), I Send You This Place is a very unconventional documentary which tackles themes of mental health, creativity and the natural world through the prism of the couple’s trip to Iceland. Gorgeously shot and made with genuine invention by Ohs and Sisson — whose backgrounds in science and design bring a fresh approach to their interpretation of the non-fiction form – I Send You This Place establishes the pair as directors with a bright future. Filmmaker spoke to the …...
- 2/9/2013
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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