BIG news:
We Are at Home – VR multi-user installation will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival!
The Hangman at Home will premiere at Krakow Int. Film Festival
The Hangman at Home – VR is selected to Annecy Int. Animation Festival.
>> Amazing news: Very proud to announce that The Hangman at Home – VR was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Immersive Work at the La Biennale di Venezia – 77th Venice Film Festival. Ahh!!!
>> We are honoured that The Hangman at Home VR – has been selected in the VR Expanded competition at La Biennale di Venezia 2020! Come see it in Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen 2-12 September. Book your tickets here
>> Proud to announce that we are now members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
>> Panel: on Thursday 2 July at 6pm, artists Jessica Ashman, Anna Bunting-Branch, Birgitta Hosea and Michelle Kranot will present their work and discuss the opportunities and challenges of working with live performance and technology. All four work with animation in their practice and are going beyond the single screen to create immersive worlds where performance is integrated into their work. Presented by Animate Projects: See a recording of the talk here (from 37 min.): https://vimeo.com/434984551
>> GROUNDWATER is being shown on DR2 (Danish national TV) Friday 19/06/20 21:30 as part of DR’s Ph.d. Cup competition.
>> WIP Presentation of The Hangman at Home: First sneak-peek at the project we’ve been working on all this time!
It is available on the Annecy Online edition until 30/06/20. Read more about it.
>> November awards for SONGBIRD:
>> Extended until May 25th 2019: Nothing Happens Exhibition at MIYU Gallery, Paris
>> SONGBIRD VR installation at Kunsthal Charlottenborg CPH:DOX 20-29 March 2019
>> Wow!!! NOTHING HAPPENS VR wins at Ottawa International Animation Festival
>> Read an interesting review in the BFI news of NOTHING HAPPENS presented at Hiroshima International Animation Festival
>> Jury comments on NOTHING HAPPENS: “A masterfully crafted and grim tableau of our time.” Thanks to ReAnima international animated film festival in Bergen, Norway, for the award ‘Best Scandinavian film’!
>> NOTHING HAPPENS wins Best film at Fest Anča
>> We are honored to present NOTHING HAPPENS VR Installation at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Part of Tricky Women FF
>> NOTHING HAPPENS VR Installation at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, part of ITFS/FMX
>> Nothing Happens VR, travels with the other LUMEN PRIZE winners to Today Art Museum Beijing, China. And Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, St Petersburg, Russia.
>> A Special Mention for Nothing Happens, Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway.
>> Nothing Happens gets a Special mention, Anilogue Budapest, Hungary.
>> Nice!! And they sent over a wonderful glass award! Nothing Happens is Winner AFTRS International VR Competition, Adelaide Film Festival, Australia.
>> Nothing Happens receives an Honorable Mention at The Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taiwan.
>>Thank you Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany, for awarding Nothing Happens ‘Best film’.
>> Nothing Happens wins Best Film, Anibar Int. Animation festival, Kosovo.
>> Nothing Happens wins Best Film , Banjalukanima film festival, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
>> Nothing Happens is given the Anima award, The International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Poland.
>> Nothing Happens wins at Tofuzi International Animation Festival (Tbilisi, Georgia) www.adf.ge
>> Thanks to Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal and to the jury Paola Gazzani Marinelli, Michael Kronish, Sandra Rodriguez and Liz Rosenthal. For awarding Nothing Happens VR the Prix immersion! www.nouveaucinema.ca
>> Lumen Prize 2017 for NOTHING HAPPENS VR!! (For excellence in Virtual, Augmented or Mixed Reality art) lumenprize.com
>> NOTHING HAPPENS VR at La Biennale di Venezia! the 74th Venice International Film Festival (30 august > 9 September) www.labiennale.org
>> NOTHING HAPPENS, the film, won the Børge Ring Award at Odense international film Festival: see nice comments by the jury (in Danish)
>> Annecy news! The short film NOTHING HAPPEN won the Prix André Martin for “Best French short film” AND the “Prix Festivals connexion Région Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes”. www.annecy.org
>> NOTHING HAPPENS gets a special mention at Animafest Cyprus!
Jury member Joni Mannisto: “The film builds up tension and anticipation in a simple and effective way leaving room for imagination. It shows us a story that isn’t limited only inside the frame we see and delivers more than the title promises.”
Links:
Interview with Michelle & Uri nothing-happens-vr
DFI Interview (Danish)_ Nothing Happens
DFI Interview (English)_ Nothing Happens
About VR in Venice Film Festival 2017
Review: Fipresci award for How long not long
About our VR in Annecy 2017 (in French)
Mentioned in polymorphart
Interview with Michelle & Uri_ Hollow Land Oscar Shortlist
