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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
in Berlin
Germany
January 21 - 22 , 2017
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AWARD CELEBRATION
Short Film Competition
ACUDkino
Berlin / Germany
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Short film Competition
Main Award
Voices of Finance
Clara van Gool
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Voices of Finance
Clara van Gool
Netherlands
2015 | 0:35:00
Docudrama based on Joris Luyendijk's Banking Blog in The Guardian about the financial heart of London. We follow ten different characters through the financial world in London, whose monologues are embodied through dance. The characters create a chain reaction similar to the competitive, glamorous exhaustive, uncertain and stressful financial world, in which every day could be your last.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUwsrRCjmA
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Jury Statement :
Main Award Voices of Finance, for its bravery in translating the inner life of people involved in the banking system of the City of London. The jury appreciated especially how contemporary dance was used as artistic device to expose conflicts.
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Short Film Competition
Special Mention
American Reflexxx
Ali Coates, Signe Pierce |
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American Reflexxx
Ali Coates, Signe Pierce
USA
2014 | 0:14:00
A social experiment with performance artist Signe Pierce who walked the streets of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in a sexy tight dress and mask. Director Alli Coates and Pierce agreed not to communicate until the experiment was over, but never expected the terrible responses. A technicolour spectacle that elicits questions about gender stereotypes, mob mentality and violence in America.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXn1xavynj8
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Jury Statement :
Special mention for American Reflexxx, for its visual translation of a social experiment: Performance artist Signe Pierce walked the streets in a sexy tight dress and mask, eliciting questions about gender stereotypes, mob mentality and violence in America. The viewer transforms into a spectator who can keep aloof watching both sides.
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Short Film Competition
Signs Award
Ferris Wheel
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng |
| The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject o in an original, convincing and surprising way. |
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Ferris Wheel
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
Thailand
2015 | 0:24:00
A stateless woman crosses the river between Thailand and Myanmar with her 5-year-old son to find a job in the city. On their journey, they meet a mysterious monkey mascot who takes them to an unexpected destination with a colourful ferris wheel.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyQObSOG2Ng
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Jury Statement :
Ferris Wheel, for its description of the situation of a Burmese refugee mother with her child after crossing the border to Thailand. The narration confronts the viewer with his/her expectations and prejudices. At the end Ferris Wheel hints at death and transition to another state.
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Short Film Competition
Night Award
Limbo
Konstantina Kotzamani
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| The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and
complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,
which keeps mind and consideration moving. |
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Limbo
Konstantina Kotzamani
Greece, France
2016 | 0:30:00
The leopard shall lie down with the goat. The wolves shall live with the lambs. And the young boy will lead them.
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Jury Statement :
Limbo, for its visual artistry, creating an atmosphere of transcendence in an ethereal landscape of sea, shore and sky. We follow an extremely well cast group of boys in their path towards the mystery of death.
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Short Film Competition
Special Mention
The Woodpeckers of Rotha
Dayaa
Bibhusan Basnet, Pooja Gurung |
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The Woodpeckers of Rotha
Dayaa
Bibhusan Basnet, Pooja Gurung
Nepal, France
2015 | 0:16:00
Atimaley and Devi’s village is haunted by memories. When a dear friend leaves the village without saying “goodbye”, the old couple faces a dilemma; to keep living with the memories or to leave the village for good? Why create anything when everything ends as dust and grime? Is it for the sake of remembrance? Is it for the immortality of the subject or the ‘artist’ itself? Or for the hope that our ‘work of art’ will one day come alive and lift our souls from this mess of life ? ‘Dadyaa’ started out as an exercise to test these very themes around an old couple in the highlands of Jumla. But once again, life happened and the wonderful mess around it helped us as directors to draw parallels between our fictious world and the reality that exists in remote Nepal.
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Jury Statement :
Special mention to The Woodpeckers of Rotha, for the way in which picture, landscape and material fuse into one creating a unique feeling of space.
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Short Film Competition
Edward Snowden Award
Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
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| The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensible (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future. |
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Imago
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Philippines
2016 | 0:15:00
Under the humid night within a lively slum in the center of Manila, Inday, a 54 year old single parent of a special child goes to her unusual work.
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Jury Statement :
Imago, for introducing us into the unknown world of earning a living in a very peculiar form being a single mother who lives in a slum in Manila.
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Short Film Competition
Award created by Jury
Art Film Award
Plasma Vista
Harriet Fleuriot, Sarah Cocking |
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Plasma Vista
Harriet Fleuriot, Sarah Cocking
Great Britain
2016 | 0:07:31
Plasma Vista allowed us to explore themes of economics, production, creativity and collaboration. Objects and devices become bodily and manipulative. The magician is a composed cartoon machine repeating tricks and equations. When products become prosthetics does the accessory take some emotional control? A creative trance. A collaborative force. A playful duplication of the self with greater consequence that first suspected. A filmic exhibit and retail site that morphed into an experimental piece of moving image occupying the dual space between utility and art.
Trailer:
http://www.harrietfleuriot.co.uk/plasma-vista
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Jury Statement :
Plasma Vista, for its impeccable visual phantasy in exploring transformations of amorphous material in dialogue with a human body.
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Short Film Competition
Award created by Jury
Art Film Award
Special Mention
Counterlight
Maya Zack |
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Counterlight
Maya Zack
Israel
2016 | 0:23:30
A hypnotic journey into the depths of consciousness that follows the traces of poet Paul Celan An archivist listens to extracts from recordings by Celan and resurrects the past in a female alchemy.
Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/172386697
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Jury Statement :
Counterlight, for its journey into the depths of Celan’s poem “Engführung”. A female archivist/alchemist uses photographs, cut-outs, maps and Celan`s voice to deepen our understanding of the poet and his work.
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