Ilan Yona's artwork

About Me

Who am I?
I a new media artist and lecturer. I divide my time between creating artwork, working as a post-production artist, and teaching new media tools for artists.
I currently live in Berlin, but I'm originally from Tel Aviv.

What am I doing?
I use Guerilla filmmaking techniques ( video, stills animation, 3D visualizations, and mainly self-humor) to work within the boundaries of familiar cinematic genres and to twist its rules thus creating silent, sabotaging acts.

some stuff someone wrote about me
Ilan Yona’s work motivates itself out of a strong urge to work within the boundaries of familiar genres. By appropriating the genre and twisting its rules of action Yona creates silent sabotaging acts. He melts together the various types without considering hierarchies of cultural and commercial, personal and social, arts and crafts. Yona creates pastiche by combining techniques of animation, three dimensional pre-visualization, video and photography thus creating replica clichés of the genres he manipulates. The distance created between Yona’s work and the original source, whether iconic or taken from readymade image banks, allows him to raise discussion that exists on the axis between the biographical and the social.