The 13th Media City Festival for experimental film and video art, held at Windsior, Ontario (Canada), has announced the award winners for this year's edition. The jury was comprised by Helga Fanderl (Germany), Christophe Bichon (France) and Bart Testa (Canada).

 The awards are:

Grand Prize: At Sea by Peter Hutton, USA, 16mm, 55:00, 2007

Second Prize: Song and Solitude by Nathaniel Dorsky, USA, 16mm, 21:00, 2006

Third Prize: ex-aequo for There by Robert Todd, USA, 16mm, 9:30, 2006) and Qualities of Stone by Robert Todd, USA, 16mm, 11:00, 2006)

Honourable mentions:

- untitled piece for four projectors from the Crib and Sift series by Bruce McClure, USA, 4x 16mm, 12:00, 2006

- The General Returns from One Place to Another by Michael Robinson, USA, 16mm/video, 11:00,2006 and  Pack by Ton van Zantvoort, Netherlands, video, 3:30, 2005

- Panni by Nicky Hamlyn, England, 16mm, 3:00, 2005

- Silk Ties by Jim Jennings, USA, 16mm, 9:30, 2006

The Tate Modern Gallery will hold a retrospective of Robert Beavers' works from February 2nd to the 25th. Beavers (USA, 1949) emigrated to Europe in the late sixties, with his lifetime companion Gregory Markopoulos, and his work has been rarely screened until very recently. Beavers' films "are at once lyrical and rigorous, sensuous and complex. Whilst communicating his response to the landscapes, architecture and traditions of the Mediterranean and Alpine countries in which they were filmed, they also incorporate deeply personal and aesthetic themes."

The retrospective is divided in two series of programmes: the To the winged distance series, that will display selected works, and the My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure series that will screen the whole cycle of the same name, composed by eighteen films. Beavers will introduce the first programme (February 2nd) and will have a discussion with critic P.Adams Sitney (Visionary Film) on February 4th, who will previously introduce the screening. 

This retrospective is curated by Mark Webber. 

Xcéntric, the CCCB (the Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona)'s programme devoted to experimental and avant-garde, dedicates their November and December screenings to found-footage film. In a series of four programmes, on thursdays and sundays until December 28th there will be screened works by Matthias Müller, Peggy Ahwesh, Maurice Lemaître, Phil Solomon and spanish filmmakers as Iván Zulueta,  Eugènia Balcells and Eugeni Bonet. 

The 16th edition of the Madrid Experimental Cinema Week , that will take place from November 17th to the 24th in Madrid, Spain, will have this year Croatia as its guest country with sections dedicated to its experimental and animation cinema. The festival, that will screen more than 315 films and videos in its different sections, starts the evening of the 17th with the projection of Tomislav Radic's Sto je Iva snimila 21. listopada 2003 (What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003, 2005).

The main programme of films in competition features 51 shorts from all over the world, including works by Christoph Giraret & Matthias Müller,  Ferenc Cakó,  Dmitri Frolov, Daniel Burkhard and Kerry Laitala. There will be several, non-competitive strands dedicated to contemporary german experimental video and film , african cinema , a selection of works from the San Antonio de los Baños Film & TV School and a section that you mustn't miss covering the history of britsh experimental cinema at the independent cinema theatre La enana marrón , with works by Legrice, Sherwin, Latham, Raban...