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Transgression - cinema as art and art as cinema. KunstFilmBiennale offers an overview of what is currently happening with film in art and art in film.
This year from October 28 to November 1!
As a unique combination of exhibition and festival, presenting short and feature-length, experimental and narrative film, the Cologne-based KunstFilmBiennale has since 2002 systematically been exploring the borders between art and cinema. From October 28 to November 1, 2009, the KunstFilmBiennale will once again offer an overview of what is currently happening with film in art and art in film - in movie theatres, galleries and museums in Cologne and Bonn. With its International Competition retrospectives and special tributes, the KunstFilmBiennale seamlessly aligns itself with the Rhineland tradition of being an historical hub for the international art scene and an innovative location for media industries.
The KunstFilmBiennale is an initiative of the SK Stiftung Kultur, the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Cologne. It takes place in cooperation with the Filmstiftung NRW and VG Bild-Kunst and is supported with funds of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. The festival is organised by KOMED im Mediapark GmbH.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The programmatic focus of the KunstFilmBiennale is the intersection of the visual arts and cinema. The International Competition will include films by visual artists and feature films of excelling artistic form.
The International Competition offers two awards of € 15,000 euro each, the first for films under, and the second for films over 60 minutes length. All films compete furthermore for the German Film Critics Association Award as well as for the Audience Award.
VG BILD-KUNST AWARD FOR EXPERIMENTAL FILM
This competition is open to films innovative in form and content in the experimental, documental and narrative genre. Multi-screen works and installations are excluded. Works open for submission are films and videos realized by young artists and filmmakers under 35 who live, study or work in Germany.
The Bild-Kunst Award for Experimental Film has a prize money of € 25,000 in total - € 12,500 for a first prize, € 7,500 for a second prize and € 5,000 for a third prize.
