The 20th Images Festival closed last weekend. These are the winners of the 2007 competition:
- Images Prize for the Best Canadian Media Artwork in the festival:
David Hoffos (Lethbridge, Alberta) for Scenes From the House Dream:
Bachelor’s Bluff .
- National Film Board of Canada Award:
awarded by the NFB to the Best Emerging Canadian Film or Video Maker in the festival:
Andrea Cooper (Toronto) for Strange Things and Oh, Darlin…
- Best International On Screen (Film) Award:
Gerhard Holthuis (the Netherlands) Careless Reef #1
- Preface
Best International On Screen (Video) Award: Julia Meltzer and David Thorne / The Speculative Archive (USA) for We will
live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass.
- Best Off Screen Award: ex-aequo to Lonnie van Brummelen (the Netherlands) for Grossraum at
Gallery TPW and to Thomas Köner + Jürgen Reble (Germany) for Quasar
Steam Whistle Homebrew Award: for excellence and promise in a local artist to Christina Battle (Toronto) for Three Hours, Fifteen Minutes Before the Hurricane Struck
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Overkill Award: for artists "whose work approaches extremes of incorrigibility through form
and/or content, and challenges our notions of edgy experimental
practice" to
Bruce McClure (New York) for They Wakened Later, Simultaneously, Much
Refreshed . Honourable mention to Jennet Thomas (London, UK) for Because of
the War