Eleanore Pienta is an award-winning screen and stage actor, comedian, dancer and filmmaker. Weaving in and out of the independent low-budget US film circuit, Pienta has carved out a niche for herself by portraying uncompromising and complex characters, her presence on screen is at once alluring albeit menacing.
Pienta’s own video and film output can best be described as veering towards the arena of conceptual video art; the work develops an interest with personal issues, body politics and the subversion of language in form and function. Pienta can be found right at the center of her pieces, handling banal situations with deadpan humor and off-beat charm from within the eye of the storm. Hers is an anti-comedy where often times the target of the joke is Eleanore herself.
-Francisco Saco