15th Un festival c'est trop court! Experimental films award

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'Cut Out', a video work by Guli Silberstein, a London-based video artist, won best experimental film award in Compétition Expérience - 15th Un festival c'est trop court ! In Nice, France. The award included also 5000 Euro production value from Dailymotion.com.

'Cut Out' is a digital processing of a video picked up from YouTube. In the video work a raging girl is roughly cut out from her surroundings by a computer algorithm struggling to contain her. She is punching the air and shouting. Her enemies are rubbed off the frame, sound is removed and music added, emphasising her anguish and anger. Gradually, more fragments of the scene are revealed, and the context is made clearer. The video-processing highlights the documented scene as image, both of a fight for freedom, and a media event. 'Cut Out' was also selected by Go Short festival (April 2015), the Netherlands, as one of the best 60 short European films of the past year, and won best experimental film award at BornShorts festival, Denmark (September 2014). It was selected by a number of other festivals, including Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Edinburgh Scotland, as one of 22 works selected from 570 submissions.

Silberstein new work 'Machinic Phylum' would take part in the coming London Short Film Festival in January 2016, and another new work 'Nour' has its world premiere in the coming Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, at the end of October.

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