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Award
Since 1995, Filmform has presented an annual honorary
award to video artists
or filmmakers. The prize goes to a person who has distinguished
him or
herself in the domain of experimental film and video
art. This is the only
award of its kind in Sweden.
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| 2006
Mats Hjelm
Mats Hjelm has received Filmform’s Honorary Award
for his elaborate
documentary video works, which deals with important
issues with great
thoughtfulness. Hjelm began working with pictorial art
in the 90’s and today
he focuses mainly on video. Crucial to Hjelm’s
production is the trilogy
“White Flight” (1997), “Man to Man”(2000)
and “Kap Atlantis)(2002). In the
trilogy Hjelm uses his own filmed material as well as
his father’s, the
documentary filmmaker Lars Hjelm, who filmed the racial
riots in Detroit
1968. Decisive political events in history and condensed
lyrical pictures
combined with biographical images testify of power structures
and
simultaneously function as a confrontation and reconciliation
with the often
absent father. In a non-chronological, cyclical collage
form, the different
dimensions create a complex and unified structure. A
few examples are:
“Deliverance” (2005), exhibited at The Museum
of National Antiquities and
“Father’s day at the Shrine of the Black
Madonna” (2006), recently exhibited
at The Museum of Modern Art” and also included
in Filmform’s distribution
project “Hit the North”.
The Board of Filmform Foundation: Åsa Lipka Falck,
Richard Julin, Bo
Madestrand, Magdalena Malm, Henrik Orrje, Gunnel Pettersson,
Anne-Marie
Söhrman Fermelin and chairman Claes Söderquist.
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| 2004
Cecilia Lundqvist
Cecilia Lundqvist receives Filmform’s Honorary
Award (2004) because of the
focused way she has developed her artistry. Cecilia
started out with
painting, but now works foremost with video and animation.
She manages to
treat difficult subjects, often from a personal, feminist
perspective with a
sharp sense of humour. Her artistic expression stretches
from the play with
simplified, raw lines, in Disco for instance from 1997,
to the use of the
animation media in a more sophisticated way, as in Emblem
from 2001.
Cecilia’s video works are shown frequently worldwide
and has received
recognition in the art and film world alike.
The Board of Filmform Foundation: Åsa Lipka Falck,
Richard Julin, Bo
Madestrand, Magdalena Malm, Henrik Orrje, Gunnel Pettersson,
Anne-Marie
Söhrman Fermelin and chairman Claes Söderquist.
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| 2003
Kjartan Slettemark
Kjartan Slettemark receives Filmform Foundation’s
Honorary Award for his
idiosyncratic, playful and pioneering work with film
and video as artistic
act and provocation for more than three decades. Today
his artistic practice
in film and video has a self-evident place in art history
and a very strong
position in contemporary art’s flow of ideas and
expressions.
From the press release:
Kjartan Slettermark is one of few artists in Sweden
who has consistently
used film and video as an artistic expression. Kjartan
Slettemark and Hans
Esselius’ experimental film Nixon Visions (1971)
is a central work in
Swedish art history today. As early as 1967 and 1968
he made the films
Symfoni Realista 1-3, based on politically charged performances.
During the
60´s and 70´s he made a many films, often
filmed as from an aesthetic of the
moment, always present with his camera at performances
and happenings. One
example of such a work is “Polisväxten”
( The Police Plant,1969). Kjartan
Slettemak moved on to video in the 80´s and is
considered a pioneer in this
area. He was one of those who founded and ran the video
workshop Video Nu
(Video Now) on Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, a nursery
for a whole generation
of artists in Sweden, who explored video as artistic
expression during the
80’s. Today Kjartan Slettemark uses the most advanced
form of video at
performances such as Digitalisman Performance (2001)
for instance.
The Board of Filmform Foundation: Claes Söderquist,
Richard Julin, Åsa Lipka
Falck, Bo Madestrand, Henrik Orrje, Rita Stetter, Gunnel
Pettersson,
Magdalena Malm.
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| 2002
Petra Lindholm
Filmform wishes to offer the prize to a young artist,
who already during her
education showed that she had a strong language of her
own and a wilful
expression.
The Board of Filmform Foundation: Richard Julin, Åsa
Lipka Falck, Bo
Madestrand, Monica Nieckels, Henrik Orrje, Rita Stetter,
Claes Söderquist.
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| 2001
Ann-Sofi Sidén
Ann-Sofi Sidén receives the prize for her sharp,
singular take on
contemporary society as it is reflected in her video
works. Because she is
ahead of her time and with her detached eye creates
closeness and burning
intimacy in the moving image.
The Board of Filmform Foundation: Richard Julin, Åsa
Lipka Falck, Bo
Madestrand, Monica Nieckels, Henrik Orrje, Rita Stetter,
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| 1996
Olle Hedman and Gunvor Nelson
By chosing Olle Hedman and Gunvor Nelson as this year’s
winners of the
Honorary Award, Filform Foundation wants to direct attention
towards two
artists who have worked with experimental art film since
the 60´s. Their
works have been shown on many festivals and museums
during the years, in
Sweden and abroad. The moving image is more frequently
used in art today and
their work has gained an historical significance as
they have become
precursors in the field of video and computer art.
One of Olle Hedman’s first films was “A
Semiotic Study” (1973-74). Since
then he has worked with an abstract course of events
in images and sound
compositions, where rhythmical and visual displacements
strongly affect the
viewer’s senses. His works are characterized by
sense of images and graphic
precision.
Gunvor Nelson has previously been living in San Fransisco
where she worked
as a filmmaker and taught film. She has, since the mid
60´s, in films such
as Take Off (1972), Red Shift (1983) and Light Years
Expanding (1988) mixed
influences from painting, collage and poetry in a very
personal way. Apart
from making film she also dedicates her time to painting
and printmaking.
The Jury of Filmform Foundation: Antonie Frank, Hanserik
Hjertén, Råland
Häggbom,
Lennart Johansson, Arne Lindgren, Monica Nieckels, Henrik
Orrje, Claes
Söderquist
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| 1995
Antonie Frank
Antonie Frank has worked with the video media as an
artist for a long time.
She has participated in many exhibitions, performances
and public
appearances in Sweden and abroad since the beginning
of the 80´s. Antonie
freely uses the video media’s artistic possibilities
in her work, inspired
by painting and dance for instance. She has a natural
eye and sense for the
form of the electronic image and its sensual dynamics.
Her latest work “She
is” from 1995 is an astounding example of this
unusual and personal tone.
The jury of Filmform Foundation: Hanserik Hjertén,
Lennart Johansson, Arne
Lindgren, Henrik Orrje, Claes Söderquist |
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