Orian Barki (°1985 in Tel Aviv, Israel) lives and works in New York. She has directed short documentaries and commercials featured on ESPN, PBS, Fader, Vogue, Nowness, Le Cinema Club, Dazed Magazine, and more.
Benanni and Barki's animated series, 2 Lizards, premiered on Instagram during Spring 2020 and was described by The New York Times as “hypnotic... deploying a blend of documentary structure and animation surrealism... both poignantly grounded in actual events and also soothingly fantastical” and its animated protagonists “art stars” (Jon Caramanica, April 2020). The series was recently added to the permanent collection of the MoMA and the Whitney Museum.