Inger Lise Hansen

She is an animator and visual artist who has experimented with techniques such as stop-motion and timelapse.

She studied at the University of East of London and then at Saint Martin's College of Art. She also studied animation at Studio Trnka in Prague and obtained a master's degree at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Hansen moved to Oslo and in 2003 created the collective Atopia, a centre for the development of experimental film and video art. The centre was created together with artists such as Michel Pavlou, Annebeth G. Hansen and Fahrad Kalantary.

Landscape is a theme that runs through her works, focusing on a particular phenomenon that occurs through a change of perspective and animated camera movements, as a way of redefining a place and its geography. In her films Proximity (2006) and Proximity II (2008) she shows different landscapes in time lapse and with the image inverted. She used the same technique with Travelling Fields (2009), for which she received an honourable mention at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. As each of the earlier films focuses on a particular place, Travelling Fields offers a more complex vision as it moves between different topographies and locations on the Kola Peninsula. With the short film House (1998), about a gradually disintegrating house, she began to gain more recognition.

Her experimental animation films have been sponsored by Arts Council England, Film London, Princess Grace Foundation, USA and the NorwegianFilm Institute.

She has won several international awards such as the Gold Award for animation at the ‘Bilbao Short Film and Documentary Festival’ and the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animation at the ‘Ann Arbor International Experimental Film Festival’.

In addition to international film festivals, her works have been shown at the Tate Modern, London, the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.