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Kriss Sagan is a visual artist and freelance animator from Slovakia. Her works explore inner spaces and human feelings through female figures and strange anthropomorphic creatures. She likes to paint. 
Graduated from the Department of Animation at Moholy Nagy University of Arts and Design in Budapest in 2020 with Augmented reality project Dreams of Eden exploring Unconscious mind and creativity. 
Her bachelor movie Poetika Anima (2018, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava) competed in various festivals around the world including Annecy and won her few prices. Her current focus is on Augmented Reality, developing a new movie and collaborating on several audiovisual projects.

EXHIBITIONS​​ 
2024 Kriss Sagan: Synapses of possible, Encián/Skalnaté pleso, Slovakia
2023 Kriss Sagan: Anima Artificialis, Ex Libris, Hlohovec, Slovakia
2023 Kriss Sagan: Chaos vs. Order, Hájovňa, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
2023 Kriss Sagan: Anima Artificialis, Arta, Piešťany, Slovakia
2021 Kriss Sagan: Mesto snov, Galéria mesta Piešťany, Slovakia
2020 Kriss Sagan: Dreams of Eden x Fest Anča, Sngg Studio; Žilina, Slovakia
2017 Kriss Sagan, Divadlo Koráb; Brno, Czech Republic
2017 Zlomky príbehov, Galéria Artotéka; Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 Talenty, Záhorská galérii Jána Mudrocha; Senica, Slovakia
2016 On the go, Exhibition orgranised in cooperation of Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic. 
FILMOGRAPHY
About people and the Earth (2023) 
- abstract reflection and a chaotic depiction symbolizing the growing disorder and uncertainty in relation to nature.
- screenings: Nuite Blanche Paris 2024, Biela Noc Bratislava 2023

Poetika Anima, 2018 
- short animated movie based on a poem
Awards: Best Animation (Festival Áčko, 2018), Special mention Igric 2018 (national film award), 3rd place in animation kategory (Noc filmových nadejí 2018)
2018 34th Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2018 6th Primanima World Festival of First Animators, Budaors, Hungary
2018 31st Premiers Plans International Film Festival, Angers, France
2018 15th Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 22nd CineMAiubit Film Festival, Buchurest, Romania
2018 Festival Áčko (Award winner for best animation film), Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 European Shorts film screenings, Paris, France
2019 22th MFF Zoom Zblizenia, Jelenia Gora, Poland
2019 14th Athens Animfest, Athens, Greece
2019 Czech and Slovak film festival, Sydney, Australia
2019 RecFest, Zlín, Czech Republic
2019 Annecy Festival, Annecy, France
2019 Fest Anča, Žilina, Slovakia
2019 Anibar, Peja, Kosovo    

Chaos/Order, 2017 
2017 4 živly; Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
2017 Jiné Vize; Olomouc, Czech Republic
2017 Festival Pukkelpop; Kiewit, Belgium
2019 MOHA Short Film, Budapest, Hungary  
COLLABORATIONS​​ 
Turisti (2023, directed by Oľhovič), short animation movie
TV series Príbeh rieky Poprad (2023, directed by Pekarčík), eco-education project
TV series Panpulóni z našej police (2022, directed by Ridzoň)
Online series Výtvarná rozcvička pre SNG (2022, directed by Ové Pictures), art-education project
TV series Príbeh rieky Hornád (2021, directed by Pekarčík), eco-education project
Ikony - Štefan Svetko (2020, directed by Milčík), architecture TV series
Music Box (2020, directed by Kozuch), shor animation movie
Sh_t Happens (2019, directed by Štumpf, Mihalyi), short animation movie
Auuna (2018, directed by Šuková), short animation movie
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