SHOOT – KHM+IFFF Dortmund+Köln

SHOOT – KHM+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!
The prize will be awarded by a jury consisting of three curators of IFFF Dortmund+Köln.

Awardees

2021: Angelika Herta
2020: Anna Ansone

Jury

Jury statement Shoot – KHM & IFFF Dortmund+Köln Award for Female Artists of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne 2021:

»Angelika Herta captures the process of her digging deep into her inner self while the camera is rolling. She succeeds in taking a light-hearted look at even some of the more solemn subjects in life. In Life Could Be So Beautiful she entertainingly takes us on a bicycle tour, creating a video diary that subtly defies the conventional narrative of a male adventure. With her free-wheeling, unpredictable style and extensive repertoire, she broadens the horizons of aesthetic experience in the medium of film: In The Best Way she makes the invisible visible and in Things We’ve Lost movement into still photography. Herta’s work spans various genres and media. For example in Traumland she looks for answers to these questions: What is a document? What is truth? And how do these two things relate to one another? We want more of Angelika Herta! And we await her next film projects with great anticipation.«

Nicole Rebmann

Jury

Nicole Rebmann studied social pedagogy at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Comparative Social Sciences at Maastricht University of Applied Sciences and at the University of North London, and did further studies in cultural management in Cologne which led her to work at film festivals. She worked with the Feminale from 2006 in various organisational and programming capacities, areas she also works in for Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln (Focus and Panorama sections). Alongside her work as a curator and as a programme and audience coordinator for various film festivals, she is the office manager of WDR AKTIV.

Maxa Zoller

Jury
Dr. Maxa Zoller is the Artistic Director of IFFF Dortmund+Köln, one of the world’s oldest and largest women film festivals. Maxa received her Ph. D. from Birkbeck College, where she studied wtih Ian Christie and Laura Mulvey. Her interest in the interrelationship between art and cinema has marked her academic career; she taught art and film history and theory at the American University in Cairo, Goldsmiths College and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, amongts others. It has also informed her curatorial work for Tate Modern, no.w.here, Art Basel and the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, where she co-curated a major solo exhibition of Anthony McCall in 2014. Her understanding of »expanded cinema« also informs her work as director of the IFFF Dortmund+Köln, where she initiated artist residencies and book publications.
In her writings for MIT, IB Tauris, JRP-Ringier and Hatje Verlag she covers topics ranging from post-colonial and post-socialist identity discourse and feminism to her academic expertise; the history of Western avant-garde and experimental film, its contexts of exhibition and its historiography. Her writings and interviews can be viewed here: independent.academia.edu/MaxaZoller

Conny Beißler

Jury

Conny Beißler studied film and cinematography at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts. After graduating she began training young artists, and since 2009 has taught cinematography and lighting at various universities in Germany and internationally. She produces documentary and stage projects, music videos as well as web and online formats. Since 2013 she has worked at IFFF Dortmund+Köln in various capacities.

Life Could Be So Beautiful

Angelika Herta

FR / PL / DE
2019
Documentary
62’
OmeU

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