Lisa Anita Wegner

Lisa Anita Wegner is a Toronto-based filmmaker, performer and interdisciplinary artist known for visionary work that bridges film, performance art and immersive multi sensory installation. A creative force with deep roots in alternative storytelling, Wegner builds immersive experiences that explore identity, altered states, and the area between reality and fiction.

Wegner’s practice includes film, video installation, durational performance, and expanded cinema. Her work often centers on themes of transformation through the lens of what she calls “Realistic Confabulation”: an intentional mixing of autobiographical truths with fictionalized personas, alternate timelines and imagined worlds.

Wegner is the Artistic Director of Mighty Brave Productions since 1999 and Artist in Residence at Haus of Dada since 2013. She has raised significant public and private funding for her large-scale art projects and proudly pays her team full CARFAC rates. Her commitment to access, representation, and fair labour underpins her entire artistic approach.

Her most recent body of work, Elsewhere, formerly known as Intangible Adorations, is a touring installation experience reimagined without live performers. The Elsewhere short film (https://youtu.be/JhRHP30rYO0) stands as a haunting artifact of that world.

Known as much for her mentorship and curatorial vision as for her creations, Wegner is a generous community leader. Her collaborators describe her as a boundary-pushing visionary whose work is as emotionally raw as it is conceptually rigorous.

Wegner’s artistic taglines include: “Lifting the Veil to Elsewhere” and “Finding Authenticity Through Artifice.” Her artist demo https://youtu.be/JHpG6kmrQbo.

Wegner’s personal assistant and in-house producer kermit@mightybraveproductions.com 

Photo Credit Lisa Anita Wegner 2018. Shot at Workman Arts and featuring Ashley Hurlock.

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