The Russian video artist Dimitri Venkov has won the e-flux Prize in Oberhausen for his work Gimny Moskovii (The Hymns of Moscovy).
The international jury praised Venkov’s film for its soundtrack and dynamic cinematography.
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Dimitri Venkov, ‘Gimny Moskovii (The Hymns of Moscovy)’, film still, 2017, 14m:24s, colour. Image courtesy the artist and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
The fourth e-flux Prize at the 64th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, Germany, has been awarded to the Russian video artist Dimitri Venkov for his 2017 work Gimny Moskovii (The Hymns of Moscovy). In this video work, the artist portrays history though architecture and music, matching the styles of Moscow’s 20th and 21st century buildings with electronic variations of the Soviet and Russian national anthem. The juxtaposition captures an aesthetic evolution driven by the evolution of ideology.
The e-flux Prize in Oberhausen is awarded annually to “an exceptional film and video work which reshapes the poetic and electric potential of moving images in the age of planetary circulation of information”. The Prize awards EUR3,000 each year to the winning filmmaker or artist.
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The 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany.
The 2018 jury members were Katie Davies (artist and filmmaker, Great Britain), Kristy Matheson (senior film programmer at The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Australia), Peter Milat (Director of the Human Rights Film Festival, Croatia), Timo Soppela (Director of the Artists’ Association MUU and MUU Galleria, Finland) and Daniel Queiroz (curator and programmer, Brazil). Of Venkov’s winning film, the jury stated:
The aesthetic framing of this film flips both history and space to render a vision of a metropolis that is not only visually and sonically spectacular, but truly intergalactic.
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Dimitri Venkov. Image International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Dimitri Venkov was born in 1980, in Novosibirsk, Russia and is a video artist who makes highly structured feature films that respond to social and political events in Russia and abroad. His works have reached out to artistic, film and academic institutional contexts.
Venkov is a graduate of the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, and holds an MA in Film Studies from the University of Oregon, Eugene. In 2012, he received the Young Artist Kandinsky Prize for his film Mad Mimes (2012), and in 2012 and 2014 he was nominated for the Moscow Innovation Prize.
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Dimitri Venkov, ‘Gimny Moskovii (The Hymns of Moscovy)’, film still, 2017, 14m:24s, colour. Image courtesy the artist and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Among his films are Krisis (2016), Like the Sun (2013), Mad Mimes (2012), America (2012), The Chinese Room of Alan Turing (2011) and In a Different Time (2010). Group exhibitions include “Iteration: Contemporary Artists Respond to MMOMA Collection”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2016); “Cannibal Manifesto: Mimesis as Resistance”, Karst Foundation, Plymouth (2015); “Burning News: Recent Art from Russia”, Hayward Gallery, London (2014); “Close and Far”, Calvert 22, London (2014); 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2013); and Bergen Assembly, Bergen (2013).
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The 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen was held from 3 to 8 May 2018 at Grillostrasse 34, 46045 Oberhausen, Germany.
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