SUSANNA WALLIN MAKES WORK THAT ENGAGES QUESTIONS REGARDING WHAT WE DO WITH OUR TIME, OUR BODIES AND THE TOOLS WE ARE GIVEN TO LIVE A LIFE, ATTENTIVE TO WHAT EMERGES OVER TIME, IN HESITATION, EXPERIMENTATION, TOGETHER AND OPEN ENDED. SHE PROBES SUBJECT MATTER ACROSS DIVERSE CONTEXTS, MODALITIES AND TIME SCALES WITH FICTION AS PRACTICE.
WALLIN WAS BORN IN LUND, SWEDEN AND STUDIED FILM MAKING AND VISUAL ART AT GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON IN THE UK. SHE HAS BEEN THE RECIPIENT OF NUMEROUS AWARDS INCLUDING THE FLAMIN LONDON ARTISTS FILM AND VIDEO AWARD, PURE FICTION, SWEDEN, NEW APPROACHES, FILM LONDON AND COMMISSIONS FROM THE UK FILM COUNCIL, CHANNEL 4, BBC, ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, ARTE FRANCE/GERMANY, SVT, SWEDEN AND THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE IN THE UK. HER WORK IS SHOWN IN CINEMA AND GALLERY CONTEXTS. IN RECENT YEARS WALLIN HAS BEEN DEVELOPING SEVERAL FEATURE LENGTH FILM PROJECTS, ONE OF WHICH IS NOW IN POST PRODUCTION. SHE IS PART OF THE RESEARCH SCHOOL AT UNIVERSITY OF ARTS LONDON COMPLETING HER PHD AND IS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FILM & VIDEO AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA. SHE LIVES AND WORKS BETWEEN TAMPA FLORIDA AND LONDON UK.