NEW VISION AWARD
NEW VISION AWARD is the competition programme for experimental, innovative and formally reflective documentaries. These are films that challenge the genre, made by filmmakers and artists who seek out new boundaries, giving us artistic visions that exceed what one would generally expect from a documentary.The films reach far and wide - from long narrative films over conceptual reflections to short poetic moments. This year, there are more films from the visual arts scene than usual, and a number of films have come about as a collaborations between different art forms. In the past ten years, the visual arts scene has moved closer to the documentary form of expression, but usually with a different and often far more conceptual approach to the genre. In this borderland, we find an interesting take on what the genre has to offer, when it is subjected to different terms of production and distribution - and not least when it is set against a different kind of theoretical and methodical self-understanding. These are films, which with their insistent formal, aesthetic and political reflections manage to sustain the notion of the documentary film as an artistic means of expression. As something, which differs from journalism,
reportage and pure entertainment.
The NEW:VISION competition is established with the belief that it is these films, which have a crucial importance for the continued existence and development of documentary films.
The award is sponsored by the Danish Association of Film Directors and FAF - the Danish union of film and TV employees - respectively. The Award is worth euro 5000.
See the jury below.
Tiziana Finzi (Italy)
With a background in architecture and film history, Tiziana Finzi started her impressive film festival career as a programmer at the Venice Film Festival in 1994. She occupied this post until 1998, while acting as a consultant for various international festivals and institutions. Thanks to her strong interest in experimental filmmaking, she became the main programmer of three sections of the acclaimed Locarno International Film Festival in 1999. At the same time, she developed a tight cooperation with important art museums and contemporary art institutions, and has worked as an artistic advisor for various installation works. Since 2006, Tiziana has worked as a director and programme director for Play Forward, the special section for audio-visual art at the Locarno Film Festival.
Jytte Jensen (Denmark/US)
Jytte Jensen is Danish, but since the beginning of the 1980s, she has lived in New York, studying first at New York University and since 1994 working as a curator in the Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art. At MOMA, Jytte Jensen organises international retrospectives and thematic series, and programmes series of experimental and American independent films. Jytte is a member of the selection committee of the museumÕs acclaimed and exclusive annual festival ÔNew Directors, New FilmsÕ and is active in a number of boards and as a member of the funding committees of a number of foundations that fund filmmakers. She has worked as a consultant and guest programmer at various international festivals and even finds the time to write articles and hold interviews.
Marek Hovorka (Czech Republic)
Marek Hovorka was trained at the art academy in Prague, focusing on documentary film, and can boast five shorts on his cinematic CV. In 1997, he founded the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, whose director he has been ever since. In only a few years, the festival has become the largest documentary event in Central Europe and has since earned large international attention and respect. Under MarekÕs guidance, the festival is constantly developing and now also includes East Silver, the largest documentary film market of Central Europe, and Docair.com, an online sales portal for documentary films with a high artistic merit. Marek is an experienced jury representative and has participated as a jury member at large international documentary film festivals such as Visions du Rel in Nyon and Doku Fest in Munich.
Marianne Torp (Denmark)
Marianne Torp is a curator and senior researcher at Statens Museum for Kunst, and occupies a special place at CPH:DOX with her latest exhibition, Reality Check. Reality Check, which can be seen and experienced right now at the museum, is part of a new and comprehensive collaboration between CPH:DOX and Statens Museum for Kunst, which is kicked off with the American experimental film legend Kenneth Anger. The collaboration arose from a shared desire to take a closer look at the junctions between film and fine art. The resulting events will comprise film screenings, concerts, artist talks and lectures at Statens Museum for Kunst during the festival. Marianne Torp is also an examiner at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine ArtsÕ Schools of Visual Arts in rhus and Copenhagen, and the vice-chairwoman of the fine arts committee of the Danish Arts Council.
Andrea Picard (Canada)
Andrea is a curator and programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival and at Cinematheque Ontario, where she Ð apart from programming thematic series and retrospectives Ð also presents The Free Screen, a series that explores the borders between avant-garde film, video art, fine art, architecture and music. Since 2006, she has also worked as a curator at Wavelengths, the festivalÕs avant-garde programme and an important forum for international artists and curators. Andrea Picard is a recognised film writer and author, and her articles have been published by, among others, the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, Flash Arts International, Canadian Architect, Canadian Art, Prefix Photo and Border Crossing. Her regular column FILM/ART in Cinema Scope explores the borders and interconnections between film and art.
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