FLEX FEST 2011
JURORS
Mark Toscano (Curator, Filmmaker, and Preservationist, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive) and Vanessa Renwick (Filmmaker and Founder, Oregon Department of Kick Ass).
COMPETITIVE FESTIVAL WINNERS
CATEGORY: VIDEO >10 MIN.
1st Prize: The Voyagers by Penny Lane
Runner-up: Compressive/Percussive by Scott Stark
Runner-up: Utopia, Part 3 by Sam Green
CATEGORY: VIDEO <10 MIN.
1st Prize: Collide-O-Scope by Naren Wilks
Runner-up: White House bu Georg Koszulinski
Runner-up: Beaver Skull Magick by Steve Reinke
CATEGORY: FILM >10 MIN.
1st Prize: Horizontal Boundaries by Pat O'Neill
Runner-up: Make Them Jump by Kelly Spivey
Runner-up: Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis by Daichi Saito
CATEGORY: FILM <10 MIN.
1st Prize: Triumph of the Wild by Martha Colburn
Runner-up: Tokyo-Ebisu by Tomonari Nishikawa
Runner-up: Iron-Wood by Richard Tuohy
KODAK FILM STOCK PRIZES
Day/Night (Devil's Millhopper) by Andres E. Arocha
FLEXfest 2011 Program
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FLEX FEST 2010
FEATURED FILMMAKERS
Jacqueline Goss Jacqueline Goss makes movies and web-based works that explore how political, cultural, and scientific systems change the ways we think about ourselves. For the last few years she has used 2D digital animation techniques to work within the genre of the animated documentary. Her most recent videos are How to Fix the World — a look at Soviet-sponsored literacy programs in 1930s Central Asia — and Stranger Comes to Town — an animated documentary about the identity-tracking of immigrants and travelers coming into the United States.
Helga Fanderl Working exclusively in the small-gauge super 8mm film format and editing entirely in camera, Helga Fanderl has directed more than 400 short films over the last several decades ranging from observational documentary portraits to more abstract, poetic works.
Michael Gitlin Michael Gitlin’s work has been screened at numerous venues, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Full Frame Documentary Festival, the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center and the 1997 Whitney Biennial.
Johan Grimonprez Johan Grimonprez studied at the School of Visual Arts and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. He achieved international acclaim with his film essay, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, which premiered at the Centre Pompidou and Documenta X in Kassel in 1997. Grimonprez’s Looking for Alfred (2005) won the International Media Award (ZKM, Germany) in 2005 as well as the European Media Award in 2006.
