Amie Siegel

Berlin Remake 2005 Paris

Berlin Remake (2005) combines extracts of East German films with images filmed by the artist in Berlin. While staying in Berlin, the artist found the locations where the official films were made and she juxtaposes the two in a...

Amie Siegel is an American artist who makes films with found footage. Occasionaly, as in the case of My Way, she uses footage found from YouTube of people singing the famous song "My Way", or films that analyze cinema techniques like "Establishing Shots", with panoramic shots that construct the identity of a place. This allows her to have a political outlook on these images and their meaning or metaphoric sense. Siegel is extremely knowledgeable about the history of cinema. She has a keen interest in politics and capitalism as well as in the diffusion tool that is the internet.
Amie Siegel was born in 1974 in Chicago. She lives and works in Berlin.