Ben Coonley

Born 1976 - Boston, MA

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.

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, San Francisco. 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.

Available Titles by Ben Coonley

Title	Year	Runtime	Collection
3D Trick Pony	2002	00:05:30	Single Titles
Ben Coonley: Post Pony Trilogy	2003	00:23:50	Single Artist Compilations
Ben Coonley: Trick Pony Trilogy	2002	00:18:40	Single Artist Compilations
Every Pony Plays the Fool	2003	00:07:50	Single Titles
Experimental Philosophy Trilogy	2013	00:14:12	Single Artist Compilations
Experimental Philosophy Trilogy Part 1: The Side-Effect Effect	2009	00:02:49	Single Titles
Experimental Philosophy Trilogy Part 2: Happinessness	2012	00:04:02	Single Titles
Experimental Philosophy Trilogy Part 3: Absolute Folk	2013	00:07:20	Single Titles
The Last Pony	2003	00:05:45	Single Titles
One Trick Pony	2002	00:04:50	Single Titles
Pony Changes Everything	2003	00:09:15	Single Titles
Trick or Treat Pony	2002	00:08:20	Single Titles
Valentine for Perfect Strangers	2006	00:03:20	Single Titles
Wavelength 3D	2003	00:44:39	Single Titles

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