Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

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IFFR presenteert een selectie van middellange en korte films op het witte doek en ver daarbuiten. Een showcase van artistieke en experimentele films, allemaal onder de 63 minuten en vertoond in verschillende formats: van 35mm tot 3D en VR. Het zijn artistieke kunstenaarsfilms, grappige animaties, meeslepende verhalen en alles wat daartussenin zit. Bekijk deze korte films in een compilatie, als voorfilm, of zomaar in de publieke ruimte. 

De korte film heeft een eigen competitie: de Ammodo Tiger Short Competition. Alle filmmakers in de kortefilmselectie dingen mee naar de Ammodo Tiger Short Award, waaraan een geldbedrag van €5.000 is verbonden.

 

Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2023 winnaars:

• Natureza Humana, Mónica Lima, 2023, Portugal, Germany, world premiere
• Tito, Kervens Jimenez, Taylor McIntosh, 2023, Haiti, world premiere
• What the Soil Remembers, José Cardoso, 2023, South Africa, Ecuador, world premiere

Jury statements 2023

The jury on Natureza Humana:

“Mónica Lima’s tender narrative establishes a context in the global Covid-19 lockdowns, zooming in on a couple whose difficult feelings are sown among the stillness of their sun-dappled apartment and garden. A soft-touch approach allows for Alba and Xavier’s relationship to be telegraphed over the course of several days, punctuated by encounters with a rogue peacock, a barking dog, several neighbours and, most importantly, their children. Natureza Humana brilliantly depicts the uncertainty of the global lockdowns – and the inevitability of life moving on despite them – creating an elegantly simple but effective chamber drama between its two protagonists and the animals and humans that surround them.”

The jury on Tito:

“Kervens “Tito” Jimenez’s spy cam footage steals painful glimpses of incarcerated life. A crucial point of view, Tito’s rare images of capture shake one to the core. Full of life and free from formal constraint, this work was a bright light and leaves us bereft that its young maker isn’t here to receive this award. We award this prize trusting that Tito’s family and Haitian activists doing anti-incarceration work on the ground will continue to benefit from it. This film is part of a larger movement, a movement led by people from Haiti and its diaspora, for whom there’s much at stake. We believe that this film adds to the much needed decolonial conversations about ownership, agency and who gets to tell which story.”

The jury on What the Soil Remembers:

“José Cardoso’s dynamic, beautifully glitching experimental documentary brings us intimately into a community uprooted by South Africa’s white supremacist institutions. Using fragmentation, layering, jump-cuts and an almost gleeful rebellion against convention, the film’s stylings reflect the ruptures of dislocation and the electric tenacity of resistance. Cardoso’s editing upends our expectations of expository film, and despite all odds leaves us raucous, rooting for and charmed by a grass-roots movement to reclaim what they can of a stolen history.”

IFFR is one of a series of film festivals throughout Europe that submits a candidate for the short film category of the European Film Awards. The jury nominated Repetitions by Morgan Quaintance (United Kingdom) for the European Short Film Award. 

The Jury on Repetitions, which they nominated for the European Short Film Award:

“In one of her interviews, Nina Simone famously wondered, “How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?” For our EFA nomination, we selected the film that beautifully reflects one of Western Europe’s current realities: that of the working class uniting, striking, rejecting. We see it in Paris, in London, and we saw it in Rotterdam right here at the Coolsingel as this festival started. With its rhythmic composition and disruptive style, Repetitions refuses complacency and ease, bucking against narrativity and demanding full retinal and psychic participation of the viewer.”

Jury members 2023

Herb Shellenberger

Herb SHELLENBERGER is a film programmer, curator, writer and artworker currently based in suburban Pennsylvania, USA. He's worked as a Programmer for Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival since 2016 and as Assistant Director for Media City Film Festival since 2022. In 2021, he co-edited the newly-revised edition of Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art. He has curated retrospectives devoted to the work of a diverse range of artists and filmmakers including Sophia Al-Maria, Anti-Archive, Emily Chao, Sid Iandovka & Anya Tsyrlina, Payal Kapadia, Ali Khamraev, Markku Lehmuskallio & Anastasia Lapsui, Jonas Mekas, New Red Order, Sergei Parajanov, Alice Anne Parker, Ron Rice, Tiffany Sia, Jean Vigo and Al Wong.

Simone Zeefuik

Simone ZEEFUIK is an Afro-Dutch writer and cultural programmer. She’s the initiator of Blacker Blackness, the temporary master programme at Amsterdam’s Sandberg Institute. Zeefuik’s work focuses on imagination, joy, representation and the (de)spectaclising of Blackness. Aside from her articles, which she publishes and links to onlazeefuik.com, she often posts notes about her (re)imaginations on Instagram as @lazeefuik. Zeefuik identifies as a film nerd and ginger tea critic. 

Together with Romana Vrede and Ira Kip she founded PaarsPaars, the Blackity Black platform for reflections on work by Afro-Dutch artists. With Richard Kofi she started the podcast Project Wiaspora.

Stanya Kahn

Stanya KAHN (1968, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist working mainly in film and video. She graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University and received an MFA from Bard College. In her hybrid media practice – which includes drawings, sound, writing, performance, sculpture and installation – she blurs the lines between fiction and documentary, often mixing pathos with humour and the uncanny. Kahn has collaborated with many performers, choreographers and other visual artists. She has exhibited worldwide at venues such as Institute for Contemporary Art Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, British Film Institute and ZKM.

Winnaars per editie

2022
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages van Pedro Neves Marques (Portugal)
Nazarbazi van Maryam Tafakory (Iran)
Nosferasta: First Bite van Bayley Sweitzer and Adam Khalil (Verenigde Staten)

2021
Maat van Fox Maxy (Verenigde Staten)
Sunsets, everyday van Basir Mahmood (Italië)
Terranova van Alejandro Pérez Serrano en Alejandro Alonso Estrella (Cuba)

2020
Apparition van Ismaïl Bahri (Frankrijk)
Communicating Vessels van Maïder Fortuné en Annie MacDonell (Canada)
Sun Dog van Dorian Jespers (België, Rusland)

2019
Wong Ping's Fables 1 van Wong Ping (Hong Kong)
Ultramarine van Vincent Meessen (België/Frankrijk/Canada)
Freedom of Movement van Nina Fischer en Maroan el Sani (Duitsland/Italië)

2018
Mountain Plain Mountain van Araki Yu en Daniel Jacoby (Spanje)
Rose Gold van Sara Cwynar (Verenigde Staten)
With History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 4 van Korakrit Arunanondchai (Verenigde Staten)

2017
Rubber Coated Steel van Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Libanon, Duitsland)
El cuento de Antonia van Jorge Cadena (Colombia, Zwitserland)
Sakhisona van Prantik Basu (India)

2016
Dream English Kid 1964-1999 AD van Mark Leckey (Verenigd Koninkrijk)
Faux départ van Yto Barrada (Marokko)
Engram of Returning van Daïchi Saïto (Canada)

2015
Things van Ben Rivers (Groot-Brittannië)
La fièvre van Safia Benhaim (Frankrijk)
Greetings to the Ancestors van Ben Russell (Verenigde Staten, Zuid-Afrika, Groot-Brittannië)

2014
La isla van Dominga Sotomayor en Katarzyna Klimkiewicz (Chili, Polen, Denemarken)
Giant van Salla Tykkä (Finland, Roemenië)
The Chimera of M. van Sebastian Buerkner (Verenigd Koninkrijk)

2013
Janus van Erik van Lieshout (Nederland)
The Tiger's Mind van Beatrice Gibson (Verenigd Koninkrijk)
Unsupported Transit van Zachary Formwalt (Nederland) 

2012
Generator van Makino Takashi (Japan)
Big in Vietnam van Mati Diop (Frankrijk)
Springtime van Jeroen Eisinga (Nederland)

2011
Stardust van Nicolas Provost (België)
Pastourelle van Nathaniel Dorsky (Verenigde Staten)
Jan Villa van Natasha Mendonca (Verenigde Staten/India)

2010 
Wednesday Morning 2 A.M. Lewis Klahr (Verenigde Staten)
Atlantiques van Mati Diop (Frankrijk/Senegal)
Condolences van Ying Liang (China) 

2009
Bernadette van Duncan Campbell (Verenigd Koninkrijk) 
Despair van Galina Myznikova en Sergey Provorov (Rusland)
A Necessary Music van Beatrice Gibson (Verenigd Koninkrijk)

2008
Ah, Liberty! van Ben Rivers (Verenigd Koninkrijk) 
As I Lay Dying van Ho Yuhang (Maleisië)
Observando el cielo van Jeanne Liotta (Verenigde Staten) 

2007 
Video Game van Vipin Vijay (India)
Hinterland van Geoffrey Boulangé (Frankrijk) 
The Flag van Köken Ergun (Turkije)

2006
Beginnings van Roy Villevoye (Nederland)
Rabbit van Run Wrake (Verenigd Koninkrijk)
Who I Am And What I Want van David Shrigley & Chris Shepherd (Verenigd Koninkrijk) 

2005
Interlude van Joost van Veen (Nederland)
Nuuk van Thomas Köner (Duitsland)
Veere van David Lammers (Nederland) 
Eervolle vermelding: 
Fare bene Mìkles van Christian Angeli (Italië)