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2008, awardsLive search( total items: 6 ) The Shape of ThingsSpecial MentionThere was a notable presence of work based on appropriated or found footage and inevitably one of these became the subject of a special mention. This was the case with The Shape of Things (Oliver Pietsch) which reflects the primeval fears in us all with humour, wit, impeccable timing and the frisson of possible truth. He produced a collage entirely his own.  Oliver Pietsch: The Shape Of Things Found Footage Film about sleep and dreams. NaturesBogdanka Poznanović AwardBogdanka Poznanović Award, main prize for the installation or live piece went toNatures (Quayola) which expands on his work seen in single screen video programs. His use of motion tracking software develops a multilayered aesthetic reminiscent of the Vorticists of the 20s. It appears to make visible the energies connecting things. The more you look at it the more you see in it.. A treat for aesthetes. Although its not live, its what’s happening now.  Quayola: Natures Natures is a project that explores the dialogue between the natural and the artificial, creating a world where these two elements coexist harmoniously. It consists on a series of audio-visual compositions that simulates organic behaviors through an atypical use of motion tracking techniques. The melodious movement of plants spinning with the wind triggers an intricate web of computer-generated lines and shapes. Interpreting the organic structures of the plants, the artificial element becomes part of the natural and vice versa. Plot PointSphinx AwardHowever the jury surprised themselves with their eventual selection of Plot Point (Nicholas Provost) as the ultimate winner of this year’s Sphinx award. Rather than the use and abuse of third party images, the director collected his own footage around Times Square recreating the tensions and conventions of dominant hollywood forms with masterly editing and a perfect eye. He inverts the paradigm of appropriation. We’re still wondering where he got us.  Nicolas Provost: Plot Point Almost everyone has seen hundreds, maybe thousands of hours of television and film footage that features crowded American cities, the streets of Manhattan, American cops, yellow New York City cabs, uniforms and ambulances. Such images have become stereotypical all over the world and are widely associated with action films, crime movies and, to a certain extent, medical drama. In Plot Point, Nicolas Provost plays with this premise; he has recorded everyday life around Times Square in New York and edited the resulting footage in such a manner that it triggers our collective memory about action and crime narrative. Plot Point shows a 15-minute, seemingly random succession of shots of crowds walking on Manhattan sidewalks; we see billboards, trucks, a choreography of police cars, while uniformed NYPD officers and random people seem to be watching each other. The Raftman's RazorSpecial MentionNarrative structure of Raftman’s Razor (Keith Bearden) touched us with its naive sophistication. We recognized the central void of the comic structure and the final adolescent disillusion. It was not without its own underlying horrors and was executed with impeccable technique.  K. Bearden: The Raftman's Razor I love you. Really. I feel like I've known you my whole life. StairsSpecial MentionStairs received an honourable mention for its poetic time remapping of human presence in an architectural space.  Stairs Film impression about time. A Diamond Forms Under PressureSpecial MentionDiamond forms under pressure (Ocusonic) uses state of the art software to create precisely that.. An audio-visual diamond .. from a singularity a compelling multiplicity.  A Diamond Forms Under Pressure A Diamond Forms Under Pressure, is an anomaly that exists somewhere between experimental film and music video, computer animation/ programming, science and art |
