Partner awards:

Margarita Osipian of The Hmm, Amsterdam, chose these works for screenings and artist talks:

Monique Motut-Firth, Data Dreaming
“We really loved this work because of the narrative it created through the use of patterns and beautiful animations. We were also very impressed that the file was such a small size but was still a good length and the quality of the video was high and not very pixelated.”
Rachel Stuckey, Solid State PSA
“With this work, we loved the idea of creating a PSA in a small file media format. We also liked that the work was taking a humorous approach to talking about technological obsolescence and technological waste.”
BiglerWeibel, Adhäsion 
“We loved this work because of the way it used sound and a humorous and absurd image to convey all of our feelings about adhesion and stickiness.”

Jesse Russell Brooks, director of the Film and Video Poetry Society, Los Angeles, will program the following films in this year’s festival:

Criss Wang, Yellow

Dag Davidge, Electric Storm

VIVO Distribution Award, Vancouver

Mandana Mansouri, the Video Out Distribution manager, writes: “VO is a non-profit distribution & outreach service and connects with local and international festivals, institutions, libraries, galleries, curators, programmers, and researchers.  Operating since 1980, Video Out is a non-exclusive distributor so artists are free to continue to distribute their work independently and with other distributors nationally or internationally.  You are also free to end the contract at any time.  We provide artist fees garnered from festival screenings, exhibitions, and licenses to libraries and universities, once a year as a lump sum to artists/producers in distribution. The distribution agreement outlines a 67% (artist) and 33% (distribution) ratio for fees garnered.  While we have a list of festivals that we submit to, and curators/programmers we have good relationships with, please feel free to let us know of any places you would like to have your work submitted to, at any time.”

Mozhdeh Bashirian, Get Out Before It’s Too Late

BiglerWeibel, Adhäsion

Yerin Choi, Four Seasons

Dag Davidge, Electrical Storm

Saghi Ehteshamzadeh, Journal

Sophia English, It is going to be a hot summer

Josh Hite, A Vista

Avesta Mahmoudvaand, Hellmouth

Monique Motut-Firth and pr0phecy sun, TV Party

Yuyan Song, JellyFun

Gabriel Soucheyre, Anne’s Portrait

Jordyn Stewart, Landscape Study IV

Rachel Stuckey, Moon Clock: 4 Phases 2 Optimize U

Eric Tkaczyk, Press

Criss Wang, Yellow