The International Jury of the 29th Videomedeja Festival, composed of Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka (Poland), curator and producer of media art; Marina Gržinić (Slovenia), philosopher, theorist, and artist; and Nenad Milošević (Serbia), film director and screenwriter, has awarded the following prizes:
Videomedeja Grand Prize:
Tess Martin, How Now, House?, 13:00 min, Color, Stereo, Netherlands, 2025
The international jury of 29th Videomedeja 2025 gives the Videomedeja Grand Prize to Tess Martin for How Now, House?
The piece has the power to encapsulate the universal within the particular. It distils the complex, painful and beautiful experience of living together into a single, looping testament to what was — and what no longer is. Through a profound yet tangible meditation on time and space, science and intimacy converge in sudden turns and observations of how the quiet rhythms of daily life intersect with the sweeping currents of history.
Through techniques that are a mixture of modernist animation, time-lapse, live action, and oral histories, Tess Martin presents a complex experiment in living together, observed in fragments. Martin reminds us that the greatest truths are often found in the smallest, most meticulously observed details.
Special Mention:
Helen Unt, Flow of Being, 11:11 min, Color, Stereo, Bulgaria/Estonia, 2024
The international jury of 29th Videomedeja 2025 gives a Special Mention to Helen Unit for Flow of Being.
Helen Unt’s 2024 work, Flow of Being, uses the fluid, transcendental nature of sand to create connections and evoke emotions. The work pushes boundaries of animation experimenting with texture and texture.
Special Mention:
Maida Srabović, Fačuk, 12:47 min, Color, Stereo, Croatia/Slovenia, 2025
Maida Srabović’s 2025 work, Fačuk, uses the confrontational nature of naïve paintings to deconstruct the daily violence experienced in a small rural village. The work demostrates powerful bravura in references and experimentation.
Bogdanka Poznanović Award:
Selection committee of the 29th Videomedeja Festival in 2025 with the following members: Ivana Sremčević Matijević, Srđan Radaković and Petar Mitrić, gives a Bogdanka Poznanović Award to nenad Obrad Nedeljkov for Spaces and Intervals.
Nenad Obrad Nedeljkov, Spaces and Intervals, 02:50 min, Color, Mute, Serbia, 2025
The experimental work Spaces and Intervals by Nenad Obrad Nedeljkov evokes one of the earliest multi-screen installations, Glimpses of the USA by Charles and Ray Eames (1959). However, unlike the Eameses’ non-linear narrative of American life on a grand scale, Nedeljkov’s piece presents a metaphor of trapped insects struggling to escape the confines of the screen — shifting the focus to a micro level. Through subtle, often barely perceptible movements and transformations of insects within and between glass compartments, the work explores themes of spatial and temporal isolation, transformation, and decay. The jury recognized Spaces and Intervals as a possible perspective on contemporary reality, and awarded it with Bogdanka Poznanovic prize.