List of Significant Achievements, AFV 2023
The jury has decided. These are the works placed on the List of Significant Achievements at Alternative Film Video 2023.
OilMoonNight – Anna Malina (Germany, 2022, 6 min)
This film full of formal experiments skillfully translates digital glitch and computer aesthetics into analogue material and paper cut-outs. Error messages and soundscapes from 90s computers are super-imposed onto dead bodies and female portraits. Mixing figurative and abstract motives creates painting-like images that resemble an emotional landscape after a violent event.
Pixels of the Orient – Warren Chan (Canada, 2022, 9 min)
A comedic take on mainstream Western TV media depiction of East Asian diaspora with a playful use of commercials, sitcoms, and soundbites divided into chapters. Orientalism and exoticism are deconstructed in their visual, commodified, and prejudiced tropes of the “far East” to reveal the mirage of “authenticity.”
A Performance of Valour – Hind Mezaina (UAE, 2022, 4 min) *Sonja Savić Award*
A vibrant, colorful and joyful undermining of masculinity. An archival recontextualization, deconstruction and subversion of orientalism. We appreciate the video’s visual speculation of Emiratis on intertwining a possible disco dance competition of today and traditional dance.