Andrea Benge

Andrea Benge / ANDiLAND is a MASON Alumni and multi-media artist who interrogates the gender grotesque, the idea that established gender roles and current power structures inherently connect sex and violence.  Her work explores digital animation, installation, performance art and AR/VR technologies within the feminine mystique. She is a multi International award winning filmmaker and has had her work screened at over 20 film festivals around the world including Slamdance Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, SUPERNOVA Digital Animation Film Festival, Brussels Independent Film Festival, ALPINALE Kurzfilmfestival, Sydney World Film Festival, Obskuur Ghent Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival. Her recent awards include Best Animated Film at Maryland International Film Festival, Best Experimental Film at the Syndey World Film Festival in Syndey, Australia and Best Underground Film at the Obkuur Ghent Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium, and is a three time Tarkovski Grant recipient.

Her upcoming performances include VISCERAL at the ATLAS Performing Arts Center in DC as part of the Eternal Art Collective on March 30th, and is also giving a presentation of that same work as part of Feminist inter/Modernist Association’s conference FiMA3: Female Provocations at the University of Mississippi. She is currently a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and Co-Captain of Animation Shorts Programming for Slamdance Film Festival.