International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2012
The 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2012 took place from April 26th to May 1st in the Oberhausen Lichtburg . It was the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Oberhausen Manifesto . The topic Provoking Reality: Mavericks, MouveMents, Manifestos was curated by Ralph Eue and Olaf Möller . Profiles covered Linda Christanell , Vera Neubauer , Ilppo Pohjola and Roee Rosen .
Prize winner: International competition
International jury
Grand Prix of the City of Oberhausen
Snow Tapes , Mich'ael Zupraner ( Israel / Palestinian Territories )
Grand Prize
two main prizes
Reframing the Artist , Sascha Pohle ( Netherlands )
Ten Five in the Grass , Kevin Jerome Everson ( United States )
ARTE award for a European short film
Marian Ilmestys , Eija-Liisa Ahtila ( Finland )
Honorable mentions
Sounding Glass , Sylvia Schedelbauer ( Germany )
Tic Tac , Josephine Ahnelt ( Austria )
Jury of the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of North Rhine-Westphalia
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Slot Machine , Wu Chang-Jung ( Taiwan )
Honorable Mention
Applied Theories of Expanding Minds , Lena Bergendahl , Jennifer Rainsford and Rut Karin Zettergren ( Sweden / Kenya )
FIPRESCI jury
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Café Regular, Cairo , Ritesh Batra ( Egypt / India )
Ecumenical jury
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Odete , Clarissa Campolina , Ivo Lopes Araújo and Luiz Pretti ( Brazil )
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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Jalan Jati , Lucy Davis ( Singapore )
Zonta Prize for a filmmaker from the international or German competition
Substitute , Elodie Pong ( Switzerland / France )
Prize winner: German competition
Award for the best contribution
3sat promotion award
Red, She Said , Mareike Bernien and Kerstin Schroedinger
Honorable mentions
The Centrifuge Brain Project , Till Nowak
Sounding Glass , Sylvia Schedelbauer
Prize winner: NRW competition
Award for the best contribution
Look elsewhere , Charlotte Ann-Marie Rolfes
Sponsorship award
Daphne and Noa , Simon Steinhorst
Prize winners: Children's and Youth Film Competition
Children's jury
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Ernesto , Corinne Ladeinde ( United Kingdom )
evo sponsorship award
Mina Moes , Mirjam de With (Netherlands)
Honorable Mention
Gogona Goridan , Eka Papiashvili (Germany / Georgia )
Youth jury
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Junior , Julia Ducournau (France)
Honorable Mention
Slot Machine , Wu Chang-Jung (Taiwan)
Prize winners: 14th MuVi Prize for the best German music video
1st Prize
uni acronym ( alva noto ft. Anne-James Chaton ), Carsten Nicolai
2nd prize
Fratzengulasch ( The Birds ), Katharina Duve and Timo Schierhorn
3rd prize
Try ( Jolly Goods ), Jolly Goods aka Tanja Pippi & Angy Lord
MuVi online audience award
Fratzengulasch (The Birds), Katharina Duve and Timo Schierhorn
MuVi price
The 14th “MuVi” award ceremony took place on April 28th. Until April 27th, online voting for the 12th audience award, which was endowed with 500 euros. For the award winners see above.
jury
The jury of the 2012 MuVi Prize consisted of the German journalist Ralph Christoph , the British music producer Daniel Miller and the French artist Laetitia Rouxel .
Candidates
Ten videos were selected from more than 210 submissions for the best German music video.
title | tape | Director (s) | Producer (s) | year | Duration |
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Blood | Vangelis | Oliver Pietsch | Oliver Pietsch | 2011 | 3:19 |
Fratzengoulash | The birds | Katharina Duve and Timo Schierhorn | Timo Schierhorn | 2011 | 5:20 |
Ghostfile # 10 | Nikakoi | Jörg Langkau | Jörg Langkau | 2011 | 5:21 |
Creche tape | Machinefabriek | Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer | Daniel Franke | 2012 | 4:56 |
Mickey Mouse & The Goodbye Man | Grinderman | Ilinca Höpfner | Ilinca Höpfner | 2011 | 4:51 |
Polaroyced | Mouse on Mars | Polynoid | Polynoid | 2012 | 4:11 |
Question mark | Terranova ft. Tomas Hoffding | Gudrun Krebitz | Gudrun Krebitz | 2012 | 3:42 |
Try | Jolly Goods | Jolly Goods aka Tanja Pippi & Angy Lord | Jolly Goods | 2011 | 4:10 |
uni acronym | alva noto ft. Anne-James Chaton | Carsten Nicolai | Carsten Nicolai | 2011 | 6:41 |
Uuotnissa | Felix Kubin & Ensemble Intergrales | Deveroe A. Langston | HfG Offenbach | 2011 | 4:30 |
Actions
- Blood
As usual, Oliver Pietsch uses found footage for his video and works again on the subject of life / death - more precisely: blood.
- Fratzengoulash
A black and white group photo of a school class comes to life.
- Ghostfile # 10
The video is dedicated to the Japanese people and shows blurry images from (surveillance) cameras or news broadcasts about the devastating Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 .
- Creche tape
A shape wants to be formed from atoms and immediately collapses in an explosive manner, until it almost manages to remain stable towards the end.
- Mickey Mouse & The Goodbye Man
A man has strange experiences after drinking milkweed.
- Polaroyced
With a mask on his head and a red t-shirt with a flash, the protagonist of the video looks like a superhero; he dances around and meets a small dog.
- Question mark
One of the few songs in the competition with singing is accompanied by the lyrics and graphics.
- Try
Disguised as a woman, a man, according to his role, sings the song lip-synchronously and stands in front of a microphone.
- uni acronym
Carsten Nicolai works through the alphabet and shows three-letter acronyms with the appropriate logo or symbol.
- Uuotnissa
White drawings on a real, flickering background as a fitting appearance of madness.
Web links
- review
- Trailer
- Festival catalog ( PDF ; 20.1 MB )