Admission starts at $5
January 18, 2024, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
e-flux Film Award is very pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural edition. The 2023 pre-selection committee members Lukas Brasiskis, Dmitry Frolov, and Steff Hui Ci Ling presented a shortlist of twelve films, picked from over a thousand submissions, for the jury’s consideration.
Comprised of writer and filmmaker Charles Mudede, artist Anri Sala, and filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong, the jury awarded first prize to Maurício Chades for Green Cemetery (2023, 25 minutes), second prize to Eri Saito for May All Your Wounds Heal (2021, 5 minutes), and a special mention to Bo Wang for An Asian Ghost Story (2023, 37 minutes).
Please join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, January 18, 2024 for the award ceremony, in the presence of the awardees as well as jury member Anocha Suwichakornpong and pre-selection committee member Lukas Brasiskis. The ceremony will feature the international premiere of Chades’s Green Cemetery and the US premieres of Saito’s May All Your Wounds Heal and Wang’s An Asian Ghost Story.
Read more on the 2023 edition of e-flux Film Award here.
Films
Maurício Chades, Green Cemetery
Brazil
2023, 25 minutes
Lavina retires and buys a house in a small city in the middle of a Brazilian savanna. Not even grass would grow on the degraded soil of her backyard. So she starts to plant an agroforestry garden offering each seedling to a loved one who passed away.
Eri Saito, May All Your Wounds Heal
Japan
2021, 5 minutes
We cannot feel the pain of others, though if one were to physically connect the nerves in one’s brain to another’s body, one might be able to do so. The artist’s simulated experience of this pain acts as a complex neural transmission that cannot be interpreted.
Bo Wang, An Asian Ghost Story
Hong Kong/The Netherlands
2023, 37 minutes
This film is about haunting memories of Asia’s late twentieth-century modernization. The story departs from a 1965 United States embargo on the hair trade, known as the Communist Hair Ban. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.
About e-flux Film Award
e-flux Film Award is a prize for artists’ films that push the boundaries of the aesthetic and critical potential of moving images in the age of planetary circulation of information. Selected by a jury of distinguished artists, filmmakers, and film selectors and curators from open submissions, it is awarded annually, with three awards given: a first prize of $3000 USD, a second prize of $2000 USD, and an honorable mention. e-flux Film Award welcomes submissions from both emerging and established artists who subvert and redefine traditional narrative forms and broaden our understanding and perception through the mastery of both film form and content. “How does one see what is hidden behind the images?,” Harun Farocki once asked. In line with e-flux Film’s programming that aims to challenge the expectations established by the commodification of moving-image art and to facilitate the critical discussion of artists’ films, e-flux Film Award is committed to recognizing works that deviate from the dominant and conventional regimes of visibility providing insightful and critical perspectives on today’s world.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
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