First Place:
QUIVER by Robert Todd
Second Place:
TO BE REGAINED by Zach Iannazzi
Third Place:
BERNADETTE by Duncan Campbell
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):
DIRTY GOGGLES OF PERCEPTION (LEFT AND RIGHT) by Joe Grimm
JOURNEY TO Q’XTLAN by Peter Rose
KEMPINSKI by Neil Beloufa
THE PRESENTATION THEME by Jim Trainor
SAND SAGA by Shana Moulton
TRYPPS #6 (MALOBI) by Ben Russell
UNNAMED FILM by Naomi Uman
Festival Judges:
jonCates
jonCates makes, organizes and teaches experimental New Media Art. His projects have been presented internationally at various events in locations such as Berlin, Beijing, Madrid and Mexico City; nationally in Chicago, New York and Boston and are widely distributed online. He is an Assistant Professor in the Film, Video & New Media Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ted Hardin
After receiving his M.A. from Florida State University in German Film Studies and an M.F.A. from the Ohio State University in Film and Video, Ted Hardin worked with a variety of artists at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada as director of photography, director, editor, lighting director, and assistant director. Ted has collaborated with the alternative media collective Paper Tiger Television in New York, and researched and shot the documentary, Dark Near-Death Experiences for German Television. His own experimental narratives and movement-based films have shown at festivals and galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. Ted is a Film and Video Professor at Columbia College Chicago.
Chi-Jang Yin
Yin’s video and photographic practice integrates language, audio and performance art. Her work aims to examine family relationship, memory in narrative, gender spectatorship, and individualism as reconstructed and intertwined with social, cultural and global infrastructures. Born in China, Yin was raised in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Canada. She received her BFA and MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, Yin is an Assistant Professor of Media Arts at DePaul University.