Rödermark, November 2009. The Videor Art Foundation is hosting the public “Movies & Stills” awards ceremony on 6 November at 7.00 pm at the ArtCenter of the multibrand distributor VIDEOR E. Hartig GmbH. Prizes are being awarded and presented to the best submissions to “Movies & Stills”, the international HD short film competition in which media artists from Germany, Israel, USA and Korea took part. In order to be considered for the competition, the young artists were asked to submit one short film in HDTV format as well as up to four stills. The latter was to show key themes from the clip and from them the viewer was to be able to recognise clearly how each individual image relates to the filmatic presentation.  The works that were submitted were evaluated in two categories, “movies” and “stills”, by a jury of media experts, among them Associate Prof. Claudia Herbst (Pratt Institute, New York), Prof. Bernhardt Eberhardt (Stuttgart Media University) and Anja Henningsmeyer (manager of the Hessen Academy of Film- and Media).
                                       
Clips from Germany, USA, Korea and Israel
The best clips were awarded prize monies with a total amount of 6,000 Euros, the three best stills will receive a purchase guarantee totalling 3,000 Euros and will be exhibited by the Videor Art Foundation along with the stills of the 4th to 10th place award winners. The 1st prize in the movies category was won by the HFG student from Offenbach, Xenia Lesniewski, with her “Egodyston” (3,000 Euros), the 2nd prize (2,000 Euros) is being awarded to Naotaka Minami, a Japanese film maker living in New York, for his “Reminiscence, the Place to Return” and the 3rd prize (1,000 Euros) is being awarded for her work “Gisela” to Katja Baumann, who is also a student at HFG in Offenbach. Among the stills, the prizes are being distributed as follows: The 1st prize (1,500 Euros) was awarded to the Swiss artist Nicole Foraboschi for her work “KOWLOON” and the 2nd prize (1,000 Euros) was awarded to students from the Georg-Simon-Ohm University in Nuremburg, Anne Klotzek and Christopher Nagel for their contribution “Bridges and Balloons”. The 3rd prize (500 Euros) was awarded to Jonas Ungar, student at the University of Art in Kassel for his work “Die Prozedur”.

Award ceremony with Rödermark’s own “Nora Jones”, Alina Wunderlin
While on the subject, the musical entertainment will be provided by the singer and pianist Alina Wunderlin from Rödermark.  The high-school student from the Nell-Breuning school has already won a number of prizes and her music can be compared to that of song writers such as Nora James and Alicia Keys.

The exhibition runs until: 29 January 2010; Opening hours: Mon – Thurs: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm; Fri. 9.00 am - 5.00 pm and by appointment.