BIO

Aleesa Cohene is a video artist and motion picture editor. She was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1976 and is now based in Toronto. Cohene works with found media to build an emotional language through which to explore contemporary political paradigms.

Her videos have shown in festival and gallery settings internationally including screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival (Canada), the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands), the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany), MIX Brasil and the Indonesian Independent Film and Video Festival. Her 2003 video ALL RIGHT was awarded prizes at the Impakt Media Arts Festival (Netherlands) and the Images Festival (Canada).

Cohene is In-House Editor at Charles Street Video, a media arts centre in Toronto, and teaches courses and workshops on video editing and theory in diverse local educational settings.