Forecast

Apply for a chance to work with Keren Cytter as your mentor!

Artist Keren Cytter works across video, film, performance, theater, dance, and drawing. She is widely recognized for her distinctive moving-image works and theatrical productions that blur the boundaries between cinema, performance, and rehearsal. Her practice is characterized by fragmentation, repetition, and abrupt tonal shifts, foregrounding language, gesture, and structure over narrative-driven storytelling. Dialogue in her films is often circular or disjointed, exposing how meaning, intimacy, and power are constructed—and destabilized—through speech.

Cytter’s work examines relationships, gender, and desire, presenting intimacy as scripted and performed. Blurring fiction and autobiography, she treats performance as a social condition, combining humor, melodrama, and discomfort. Her films use sparse, minimal aesthetics and resist narrative closure, exposing filmmaking itself as a force shaping perception.

In 2012, Cytter founded the dance company D.I.E. Now. She is also an author of five novels and three children’s books, and a professor at the Art Academy in Münster, where she is based alongside New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally at major institutions, and she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021. Her feature film The Wrong Movie was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024.

As a mentor, Cytter is interested in working with artists who are confident in their practice, experienced enough to work independently, and open-minded enough to engage seriously with critique. Her mentorship is especially suited to artists developing video art, film, or installations that incorporate moving image.

Her guidance focuses on the technical and formal dimensions of a project—editing, structure, rhythm, staging, performance, and duration—and how these decisions directly affect a work’s clarity and effectiveness.

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Forecast 11: How to Apply?
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