Juryrapport
To start with a positive note; you could say the richness of what is possible in audiovisual art within Dutch academies is impressive but also demanding. It is an almost impossible task for a jury to judge such diverse nominees that are almost incomparable. Some were technically really brilliant, others are strong in concept but executed with basic available means. From the very personal to documentary takes on identity and social political conditions, from the fantastic to performance, and from computergames to celluloid emotions.
There is clear awareness with the nominees that they have to reflect on and make sense of visual culture today, there are experiments with found footage, animation, painting and cinematographic traditions in several works. As a jury we see all kinds of possibilities for these graduates to find their way both in and outside of the artworld.
We are unanimous on all three works we selected:
For the Tent Academy Award we’d like to give a honarary mention to:
Rachel Heemskerk for Kijken waar ik niet kijken kan
Rachel has made an intruiging portrait, questioning ways of interviewing in a very personal way. The film is a powerful attempt to get inside the psyche of someone close, without getting there. She uses the camera as psycho-analytical tool, but doesn’t get caught in the therapeutic trap. The structure of the film, which does not take more than 5 minutes, is extremely well balanced. It has emotion without getting over emotional, it gets close by keeping just the right distance both in words and in setting.
As the winner for the TAA 2013 we unanimously selected
Is this real love? Of course not by Florian Krepcik
Florian has created an innovative cinematic experience which infuses feelings in what is usually a cold environment. His way of using computergames as readymade images, makes you think about the real and digital world, about infrastructure, architecture and movement. Bringing in the aesthetics of film, by making the images of the game mainly black and white, creates unity while the artificiality is always there in the flickering light. The sound is brilliant, the selection of cinematographic quotations is great and the chapter titles make for an associative narrative in a very smart and alternative way.
Foreign Film Award goes to
My Friends by Vasilis KarvounisVasilis friends have humor and are grotesk. You don’t really know what you are looking at. Is it sexual organs talking to you? But the sounds and words spoken and the images of the throats and vocal chords become a perfect symbiosis. Vasilis has managed to make us look at the seldom seen mini choir of the main instrument we have that gives us a presence in the world.