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Images Festival 2007 Awards

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 18/04/2007 - 09:36
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
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20th European Media Art Festival

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 02/04/2007 - 04:39
The 2007 edition of the European Media Art Festival , that this year celebrates its 20th anniversary, will be held in Osnabrück, Germany from April 25th to the 29th.

This year's programme will feature about 180 experimental shorts, feature-length films and videos. There are two programmes focused on works from Mexico and Cuba. Running from April 25th to May 20th the exhibition Final Cut will explore the relationship between media art and cinema, where artists such as Paul McCarthy, Alex McQuilkin, Mischa Kuball, Klaus vom Bruch, Candice Breitz, Mark Lewis, Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller, Bjørn Melhus, Peter Tscherkassky, Christoph Draeger, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Pierre Huyghe will present their works. There will also be talks with the artists and lectures. You can have a look at their full programme here.
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Experimental Cinema at La Habana FF 2006

By Marcos Ortega on Sun, 22/10/2006 - 00:18
For the very first time since its beginning in 1979, the 28th edition of the La Habana Film Festival will include an independent show experimental cinema show. The festival, that will take place from December 5th to 15th 2006 in La Habana, Cuba, will feature the presence and the works of Philip Hoffman, Dominic Angerame and Manuele Cecconello. The screenings will be followed by talks with the filmmakers with participation of selected specialists and the audience.
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London Film Festival - Experimenta Avant-Garde Weekend

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 21/09/2006 - 22:13
The 50th London Film Festival will present this year its fourth Experimenta Avant-Garde Weekend, from October 28 to 30. The event will center on the works of Jack Smith with the screening of Mary Jordan's docoumentary Jack Smith & The Destruction Of Atlantis, and Kenneth Anger, who will present his recently restored films.

Other highlights include new films by Nathaniel Dorsky, Phil Solomon, Ken Jacobs and Matthias Müller; the screening of restored prints of Jodorowsky's La montaña sagrada and Vittorio de Seta's documentary shorts.
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Antimatter Underground Film Festival: Programa

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 15/09/2006 - 07:35
El Antimatter Underground Film Festival que se celebrará su novena edcición los próximos días 22 a 30 de Septiembre en Victoria, Canadá, ha cerrado su programa. En total se exhibirán más de 200 cortos, agrupados en 21 programas, junto con varias videoinstalaciones y performances. Tenéis disponible el programa completo en su página web, así como en PDF.
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