Ben Coonley
Ben Coonley is a video and performance artist who uses comic pedagogical styles and direct audience address to explore aspects of media culture and film history. Drawing from the avant garde canon and amateur/public access video conventions, his videos are sardonic no-brow subversions of cinematic form and genre.

Born in Boston (1976), Coonley studied Art Semiotics at Brown University, and received his MFA from Bard College. His works have been screened at venues and film festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film Festival, Cinematexas and the Pacific Film Archive. He is a regular contributor to Movies with Live
Soundtracks, a quarterly DIY film/performance series based in Providence, RI. He lives in Brooklyn.

He was recipient of the 2003 Barbara Aronofsky Latham Memorial Award, given to an Exceptional Emerging Video Artist.

  

Titles by Ben Coonley:

3D Trick Pony

Every Pony Plays the Fool

The Last Pony

One Trick Pony

Pony Changes Everything

Trick or Treat Pony


Work by Ben Coonley also appears on:

Compilation: Ben Coonley: Post Pony Trilogy

Compilation: Ben Coonley: Trick Pony Trilogy