ABOUT
ANNA GUTTO is a theater and film artist. After heralding the US premieres of Jon Fosse’s plays together with Sunde and Oslo Elsewhere, Anna moved on to work in film. Her feature film debut PARADISE HIGHWAY, starring Academy Award-winners Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman, premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2022 and was hailed by Variety as “a singularly promising debut for a first-time feature filmmaker.” While in the Big Apple, in addition to working as an actor as well as co-artistic director for Oslo Elsewhere, Anna also produced concerts at Carnegie Hall, was a consultant for HBO’s BOARDWALK EMPIRE and a contributing guest lecturer at Columbia University (2012 Ibsen’s A Doll House). She graduated with Honors from Columbia University in 2016 with an MFA in film directing. Gutto co-directed HOME FOR CHRISTMAS for Netflix and her short films won multiple festival awards, incl. Best Director and Best Ensemble Cast. MOMMY HEIST was broadcast on French channel FR3 and A LUCKY MAN is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award recipient and in the screening catalog of the Museum of the Moving Image. Handling a range of genres and mediums, for Anna, storytelling is about connection – characters connecting with each other, and stories connecting with an audience. Anna is now a dual citizen of the US and Norway. www.annagutto.com
SARAH CAMERON SUNDE is an interdisciplinary artist and director working at the intersection of performance, video and public art. She investigates scale and duration in relation to the human body, water, ecological crisis and deep time. In 2023, she was named a Cultural Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2021 awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her series of nine performances and video artworks made on six continents, 36.5 / A DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE SEA (2013 – 2022). Her work has been performed and exhibited around the U.S. and internationally in Norway, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Mexico, Kenya, Uganda, the UAE, and Iraqi Kurdistan. In 2017, Sunde instigated and co-founded Works on Water (a triennial and artist-driven experimental organization dedicated to art that is made on/in/with bodies of water). She also co-founded the live art collective Lydian Junction (2011-2015), Oslo Elsewhere (2004-2013), and the Translation Think Tank (2003-2008), and served as Deputy Artistic Director of New Georges for 16 years (2001-2017). She is also internationally known as Jon Fosse’s primary American English translator and director. SarahCameronSunde.com + 36pt5.org
KEY FUNDERS for OSLO ELSEWHERE: The Royal Norwegian Consulate in New York, The American Scandinavian Foundation, The Alcoa Foundation, and Inger G. Ginsberg.