Anita Di Bianco
Anita di Bianco was born 1970 in New York. After her education at the Rutgers University in New Jersey she was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam from 2000 until 2001. Die Bianco lives and works in Berlin.
Anita di Bianco’s short films take up, modify and re-work existing and re-imagined literary and film characters – excerpting and adapting the texts of such authors as Jean Genet, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Gertrude Stein, as well as revisiting familiar media rituals and pop-cultural tropes. Among her disparate sources are Academy Awards speeches, international newspapers and oft-quoted scenes from such films as Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.
Anita di Bianco’s short films take up, modify and re-work existing and re-imagined literary and film characters – excerpting and adapting the texts of such authors as Jean Genet, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Gertrude Stein, as well as revisiting familiar media rituals and pop-cultural tropes. Among her disparate sources are Academy Awards speeches, international newspapers and oft-quoted scenes from such films as Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.