Artist Biography

Annika is a filmmaker, tattoo artist, musician, and multimedia visual artist based in New York. As an emerging writer-director and video editor, Annika is committed to shifting representational paradigms of identities traditionally marginalized in American media. 

Recurring topics within Annika’s creative practice include queer love and identity, issues of disability and mental health, and constructions of reality and selfhood in a technologized world. Annika’s filmmaking practice tells bold and subversive stories which propagate multidimensional representations—transforming minds and shifting cultural paradigms. 

Annika utilizes a deeply layered approach to storytelling, intensifying visual and musical narratives through a process of fragmentation and collage, in order to evoke variable states of consciousness and subjectivities in perception. The result is a bold and energized body of work inviting dissection. 

Annika’s interdisciplinary undergraduate concentration studies the intersection of filmmaking, psychology, philosophy, multimedia art, and writing, which ultimately guides them to produce artworks which probe the mind.

Annika’s artistic practices outside of filmmaking include tattooing, poetry and prose, comics, music production, DJing, fine art, and textile design.

Education

New York University Class of 2024

Gallatin School of Individualized Study — B.A. in Multimedia Storytelling and States of Consciousness

Tisch School of the Arts — Minor in Film

Distinctions

Author and Illustrator, “Deathpowers” Zine-length Comic Book, 2023

• A comic investigating mental health and identity. Winner of the Dean’s Award for Summer Research grant at NYU. 

Writer, Director, “Fire Exit” Short Film, 2023

• A queer body horror short dissecting bodily autonomy. Winner of the NYU Gallatin Film Alliance Pitch Award.

First Assistant Director, Editor “I Do Not Have A Problem Like At All”, 2021

• Semifinalist at the Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival. 

Silver Recognitions for Photographic Excellence, 2019