PORTFOLIO

JULIA AMANN
WRITER-VISUAL ARTIST
TABLE OF CONTENTS

P. 3 - About

P.4-5 - Curriculum Vitae

P. 6-31 - Stills

P.32-37 - Paintings and poems

 ABOUT

I am a writer, visual artist and environmental activist with a background linking arts,
politics, science and theology. Holding a Scientific Baccalaureate with a specialisation in Biology,
a BA in Comparative Literature with Film Studies from King’s College London and a MSc in
Global Governance and Ethics from UCL with a specialisation in Environmental Politics, I have
throughout diverse personal, academic and professional experiences developed a strong interest
in forwarding social change through artistic means, by exploring the depths and complexities of
the human condition through theological, historical and psychological perspectives.

My work mainly draws on themes of environmental, political and social issues through
a poetic and magical vision, yet deeply raw and anchored in everyday moments of reality. I
am especially passionate about intersecting art, science and religion through the spectrum of
memory, psychology and historical myths.

I am particularly influenced by the filmic works of Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson,

James Benning, Agnès Varda, Jonas Mekas, Hayao Miyazaki and the Safdie brothers. My literary
influences include the works of Yukio Mishima, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marguerite Yourcenar,
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Paul Eluard, Hermann Hesse and Leonora Carrington. I am furthermore
deeply inspired by the painters Odilon Redon, Anselm Kiefer and Francis Bacon. The theories of
Carl Gustav Jung, Guy Debord, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière also significantly impact
my work and vision.

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 Julia AMANN SOFTWARES
• Microsoft Office suite
London (NW5) -Full proficiency: Word,
Powerpoint
07763068334 -Basic proficiency: Excel

@ julia.amn@gmail.com • Adobe suite :

-Basic proficiency:
Photoshop, InDesign
EDUCATION -Medium proficiency:
Premeire Pro
• 2018-2019 : MSc in Global Governance and Ethics - University College London (UCL)
- Specialised in environmental politics (Dissertation on the entanglements between science, religion, secularism and • Screenwriting
environmental politics - Final grade: Distinction) softwares :
- Final classification: Distinction -Full proficiency: Final
draft, Celtx
• 2015-2018 : BA in Comparative Literature with Film Studies - King’s College London
- Optional programme AKC: study of theology, philosophy, migration and ethics • Data softwares :
- Final classification: First Class Honours -Basic proficiency: RStudio

• 2013-2015 : French Scientific Baccalaureate with Cinema option - Gymnase Jean Sturm SKILLS
(Strasbourg, France) • Organisation
- Specialisation in biology • Creativity
- Final classification : First Class Honours • Planning
• Management
• Summer programmes scholarships • Budgeting
- August 2017 : Environmental ethics in a Global Context - University of Helsinki (ECTS: A) • Communication
- August 2016 : Interreligious and intercultural dialogue in Germany - Humboldt University Berlin (ECTS: A) • Leadership
• Administration
• Publication and award: • Research
- 2019 : ‘Growing out’ of degrowth: assessing degrowth as a solution for Climate Change (International Public
Policy Review, Volume 13)
- 2017: King’s College London Interdisciplinary Award “A Beautiful Mind: Art, Science and Mental Health”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE LANGUAGES

• English : Full proficiency
• 2016-2019 : Part-time child care jobs (nanny) • Voluntary experience :
- 2019-current : Women Environmental Network • French : Native
• July 2016 and July 2017 : Medical secretary - assistant therapeutic gardener proficiency
- Centre Médical Marie Curie (Strasbourg, - 2018:-2019 : Hackney city farm - assistant
France) shop manager • German : Limited working
proficiency
- 2017-2018 : AIDS oprhan - fundraiser
- 2014-2015 : Amnesty International - fundraiser • Icelandic : Limited
working proficiency

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 FILM CREDITS
• Features :
- 2018 : Tummyache (dir. Sasha Dulerayn)
First assistant director and line-producer

• Shorts :
- 2019 : Guts (dir. Jumaan Short)
Production assistant
- 2018 : Speak (dir. Duncan Kennedy)
Third assistant director
- 2017 : Circles (dir. Lucie Desquiens)
Production assistant
- 2015 : Phoenix (dir. Charlotte Thiery - student)
Screenwriter and script supervisor

• Web series :
- 2015 : Face à la classe (dir. Matthieu Winckel)
Floor runner

INTERESTS
• Film and media
• Environmental justice
• Politics and sociology
• Women rights
• Native people rights
• Literature and writing
• Painting and drawing
• Music
• Psychology
• Theology
• Cultures, history and
myths
• Biology and chemistry

Regent’s Park, London, 2019



STILLS
I am particularly interested in exploring
symmetry, lines and movements, as well as the
surreal and poetic aspect of everyday life that
confer a sense of sacredness to the everyday.

I like to play with different types of

supports, interchanging between the digital,
polaroid and film. I furthermore navigate
between the use of black and white and the
use of colour depending on the movement
and context of the scene. I reckon that while
colour offers sharp vibrancy to a picture, it
can also distract the eye from the essence of
the movement and symmetry that composes
the frame.

Regent’s Park, London, 2019 6

DIGITAL

London, 2019

Strasbourg urban area, 2016

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“Nation/control”,
Nancy, 2015
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“The search”, London, 2017
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Salkantay Pass, Peru, 2017

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Maras Salt Mines,
Peru, 2017

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London, 2017

Nuuksio National Park,

Finland, 2017
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Nuuksio National Park, Finland, 2017

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Nuuksio National Park, Finland, 2017

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Strasbourg urban area, 2018

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St John on Bethnal Green,
London, 2018
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Sanssoucis castle,
Potsdam, 2016

St George’s Gardens,
London, 2018
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“Hesitation”, London, 2017

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Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, 2017

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Sor-Varanger, Norway, 2019

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Epping, 2018

Epping, 2017
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London, 2018

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Berlin, 2016

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 POLAROID

Epping, 2018

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Epping, 2018 Epping, 2018

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“I and the crowd /1”, London, 2018 “I and the crowd /2”, London, 2018

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“Take your pills /1”, London, 2018 “Take your pills /2”London, 2017

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 Utsjoki church,
Finland, 2019

FILM

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Finland, 2019

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Finland, 2019

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Former Saami houses, Finland, 2019

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PAINTINGS AND
POEMS
Painting and poetry often go along in my work. Both appeal to the
imaginative in different yet interconnected ways: while poetry invites the reader
to picture words, painting illustrates poetically states , atmospheres and feelings
going beyond the limits of language.

Several of the following works have been undertaken as part of the

interdisciplinary award ‘A Beautiful Mind: Art, science and mental health’, reflecting
on mental illness in connection to creativity. In these works, I have especially
engaged with perceptions of social anxiety in connection to outward stimulations,
through a specific focus on colour and forms.

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Lurking down the front room
creeping on your sides
like wolves,
they
crawl up
to pull them down.

“Absence”, Watercolour
on paper

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 Ash-coated wings
smoke that cracks;
Flying above
this mesmeric feeling,
Like when you had
enough with nothing.

“Wired”, acrylic on
cardboard

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“Neurons”, acrylic and
charcoal on paper

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“A state forest”,
acrylic on canvas

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A thousand dogs barking
at the door.
They don’t want to open;
Just punch.

Retain, retain
The wind chaotically submerging
Each of your smallest
Cavities
Threatens to flood over the body.

Yet
Out-
Side,
The air is not as cold
As you’d like to think.
See, the external sound of silence
is warming you up.

Attain, attain
You know you can;
From painful paradoxes always
Emerges
The panacea of resilience.
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 Julia Amann Portfolio 2019 - julia.amn@gmail.com - +447763068334