SHOOT – KHM & IFFF Dortmund+Köln

SHOOT – KHM & IFFF Dortmund+Köln

Introduced four years ago, the this award acknowledges the artistic development of a female director graduating from KHM. This year’s award goes for the first time to an installation artist, Hanna Noh.

From the jury‘s statement: “South Korean Hanna Noh won over the jury with the thematic depth and artistic diversity of her film and paper installations. Noh’s works broach the taboo subject of the DMZ, the demilitarised zone between South and North Korea, making the subject accessible to the (art) world. The reconciling, harmonising force of this atmospheric video work testifies to a particularly courageous approach to a subject that, despite its geopolitical significance, rarely gets any artistic articulation.”

The jury consisted of the curator Jessica Manstetten, the visual designer Conny Beißler and Maxa Zoller, artistic director of the IFFF Dortmund+Köln.

Shoot – KHM & IFFF Dortmund+Köln Award for Female Artists of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne is aimed at female directors who graduated from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in the year prior to the Festival. The aim and purpose of this new award is to identify emerging and up-and-coming artists, to introduce them to a broad audience and to provide financial support. The word shoot can mean to make a film, but it also refers to a young plant or offspring. It’s a widely known fact that transitioning from art or film school to the competitive professional world is often a very tough journey. This is why the new ›shoots‹ must be supported and integrated into networks, especially when transitioning from a university of the arts to the independent professional world and ›the market‹.

Shoot is a joint gender equality collaboration between Equality / Discrimination of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and IFFF Dortmund+Köln, and comes with prize money of €1,000. The films are shown as part of the new section, Spot on, NRW!