The Surging News reporter Huang Xiaohe
Founded in 2008 by Shanghai Radio and Television Station and the School of Design of East China Normal University, the "One Minute Image Contest" is a public welfare activity that stimulates artists' creativity, and enters its twelfth year this year. On November 17th, the 2020 "One Minute Image Contest" award ceremony was held at crowne plaza Shanghai Silver Star.
502 short films from around the world competed for the best "One Minute Image" award, and finally "Roche", "Departure Lens", "Haikou", "Hide and Seek", "Sea Encounter" and "Natural Writing" won the grand prize in various categories; the special award was awarded to "Because of Love", "Journal" and "Bondage".
Since the launch of the 2020 One Minute Image Contest in June, a total of 502 entries have been received from artists from all over the world, and after more than six months of television, network broadcasts and jury selection, the work "Roche" by British artist Kate Miller has won the "Narrative" Best One Minute Award. Mr. Wang Lijun, the master of the Documentary Center of Shanghai Radio and Television Station, commented: In today's society, we almost all live in large and small screens, walking towards the screen, it is not clear whether it is our previous self or the real people, we meet in the screen, and the work poetically expresses the worries and deaths of modern people, which means a long time.
Roche
Dutch artists Bram Rugman and Joaquin Wohl's "Departure Shot" won the Best One Minute Award in the "Performance Category". Professor Wei Shaonong, dean of the School of Design of East China Normal University, commented that the work uses a spherical panorama shooting method to obtain a unique holographic long shot, and the actors' performances are reminiscent of the classic circus shots in Italian director Fellini's films, full of bright sense of the times and drama, and the slow processing of body language and music strengthen the gorgeous sense of humor of this short film.
"Departure Shot"
The short film that won the "Animation Category" Best One Minute Award was "Haiku" by Chinese author Wei Zhicheng. The painter Mr. Lu Zhongping said: The welding on the construction site in the work of "Haiku" is like fireworks, illuminating those lonely bones, pure love, obsessive men and women, haunting the endless night. Under the cold elevated heights, those lonely images are carefully juxtaposed by the author in a scene that is both familiar and strange, realistic and vain, which makes people feel unfinished.
《Haiku》
The winner of the "Experimental" Best One Minute Award for Short Film is Dutch artist Chisca May's "Hide and Seek". The testimonial of mr. Zhou Tiehai, a contemporary artist, is that the image characteristics of the work are reminiscent of the film experiments of those early European avant-garde artists, and the avant-garde film "Mechanical Ballet" by artist Legger, the difference is that the author puts the unique and interesting dialogue into the experimental situation, resulting in a subtle sense of wandering and a new narrative form.
Hide and Seek
The short film that won the "Sound Effects" Best One-Minute Award was "Sea Encounter" by young Chinese author Li Huike. Artist and painter Mr. Chen Yiming commented that "listening is another way of viewing", the author of this film is very good at using a minimalist visual language through the auditory construction of sound, leading the audience through the vast ocean, to the end of the distant universe space and time, ethereal and strange image sound expression is the most moving part of this film.
"Sea Encounter"
The short film that won the Best One Minute Award in the "Nature and Technology Category" was "Writing in Nature" by Argentine artist Dario Ricciardi. Mr. Lin Mingjie, an art critic and senior media person, said: The visual perspective of this film observes the most ordinary things around us: grass, sand and wind, these are the most ordinary "props" in nature, but they reveal to us the deepest secrets of nature, simple and full of Zen.
"Writing in Nature"
The competition also awarded three special prize works, two of which are based on the theme of showing the fight against the epidemic - Zhou Caihong's work "Because of Love" from Hangzhou, and Lin Lu's work "Log", which is still studying in Europe. Mr. Yu Glory, general manager of Shanghai Film and Television Culture Exchange Co., Ltd., said that the short film "Because of Love" reflects the lives of ordinary people during the fight against the epidemic in the form of animation, full of a bright sense of the times. Professor Qi Heliang of the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts said that the short film "Journal" uses images to record his life during the epidemic, and it is valuable to explore the language and rhetoric of the emerging mixture of video journals.
"Because of Love"
《Journal》
Another special prize was awarded to six 12-year-old creative teams working together to complete the work "Bondage", which is also the youngest winner since the competition was held. Mr. Wang Jun, assistant to the head of the Documentary Center of Shanghai Radio and Television Station, said that students of this age have been indigenous to the image world since birth, and from the expression techniques of creation, we can see the ability of this generation of young people to express images and the dilemma of facing real reality.
"Bondage"
Gu Jiming, general director of the "One Minute Image Competition", said: In the past ten years, images have become the dominant medium in the contemporary art system. Compared with the past, not only are the topics of artists' creations expanding and expanding, but the one-minute image language itself also presents an exceptionally rich face. In the past 12 years, the competition has gradually entered the public vision, providing a platform for more people with artistic dreams to express themselves freely and create freely, transforming a short 60 seconds into an infinite eternity.
It is reported that the award ceremony of this competition will be broadcast at 9 pm on November 28 on the documentary humanities channel of Shanghai Radio and Television Station, so please watch.
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