Susanna Wallin
Assistant Professor of Video
Phone: (813) 974-2360
Email: susannawallin@usf.edu
Office: FAH 226
Susanna Wallin was born in Lund, Sweden. She studied Film and Video at University of the Arts London and Goldsmiths in London, UK. Her work combines experimental traditions along with narrative practices through nonlinguistic, non-verbal and verbal material explorations into daily lives being lived with actual scenarios unfolding; momentous, mysterious and banal. She gathers material through filming over extended periods of time, directing as well as letting occasions invent their own lure, meshing fictive and documentary elements across past and possible futures, challenging where the line is drawn and where cuts are made. She engages questions regarding what we do with our time, our bodies and the tools we are given in order to create meaning, attentive to emerging narratives that come over time, in hesitation and open ended.
Her work is shown in cinema and gallery contexts and has been exhibited at Oberhausen Kurz Film Tage, The London Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Clermont Ferrand Film Festival in France, IMZ in Vienna, Urban Visionaries at Canary Wharf Screen Art, Hackney Picture House, ICA and the Barbican in London, Zarya Centre for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, among others. She has been the recipient of The London Artists Film and Video Award UK, commissions from Channel 4, Arts Council England, Arte France and Germany, SVT, South East Dance UK and The British Film Institute, Film London and the Swedish Film Institute. Susanna is part of the Research School at The University of the Arts London in the UK where she is completing her PhD through practice. She is currently making her first feature film in Florida.