JURY
Antje Ehmann
Antje Ehmann is a film theoretician, researcher, curatos and artist. Between 1995 and 1999 she worked on the team organizing the film festivals Duisburger Filmwoche and Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen.
Between 1999 and 2003 she collaborated on the DFG project Geschichte des dokumentarischen Films 1895 bis 1945 (History of Documentary Films 1895 - 1945).
Since 2004 she has focused on diverse curatorial projects, mostly together with Harun Farocki. Her recent shows include Antje Ehmann, Harun Farocki, Museum of Modern Art. Maja Galerija, Ljubljana 2009, Central Nervous System No. 2, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin 2009.
Her recent publications include:
- Geschichte des Dokumentarischen Films in Deutschland, Volume 2: Weimarer Republik 2005. (History of the Documentary Film in Germany, vol. 2: Weimar Republic)
- Amos Gitai. News from Home, 2006.
- Kino wie noch nie / Cinema like never before, 2006
- Harun Farocki. Against What? Against Whom?, 2009.
Antje Ehmann lives in Berlin.
Carlos Serrano Azcona
Carlos Serrano Azcona (Madrid 1969). Bachelor in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. He makes studies at the London Film School. With his own production company, Estar Ahí Cinema, founded in the year 2006, along with the film makers Jaime Rosales and Carlos Reygadas and the film producer Jaime Romandía produces as director and scriptwriter his first feature film El árbol, shortlisted in the International Film Festival of San Sebastian (Movies under Construction 2008) and in the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (2009). He has worked as editor and co-producer in the feature film by Carlos Reygadas Japón (Mexico-Spain 2002) awarded with the special mention to the Caméra d'Or prize in Cannes 2003. He has directed and written six short films. He is currently directing and producing along with Karma Films a documentary feature film over the therapeutic work by Cristóbal Jodorowsky.
Loreta de Stasio
Born in Foggia, the Italian semiologist and professor Loreta de Stasio has studied in Bari, London and Moscow. She got a PhD in 1997 and has been teaching in the University San Pio V (Italy) and in the University of the Basque Country. She has been giving lectures in Perugia, Brussels, Bari, Lecce and Rome; organizes international seminaries about la Commedia dell´Arte and the contemporary Italian culture. Frequently takes part in congresses in Europe and America.
Dario Urzay
Born in Bilbao in 1958, he is Bachelor in Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country, where he has been teaching between 1983, year when he is awarded by the prize Gure Artea from the Basque Country and 1988. That very year he moves to London, guested by the Delfina Studios Foundation. He has done both individual exhibitions in New York, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona and Helsinki and collective ones in the Institute of Contemporary Arts of London, the Kunsthalle of Bielefeld and the Hamburg Banhoff Museum of Berlin. His work is present in a wide range of collections, among them, in the Japanese Museum Marugame Hirai, the Museum Reina Sofía of Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, the Deutsche Bank Collection of London, the National Fund of Contemporary Art of Paris and the Spanish Venue of the Wurth Collection. In the year 2005 was awarded with the National Prize of Graphic Arts in Madrid and with the Excellent Work Award in the biennial exhibition of Beijing.
By painting Darío Urzay deals with a mixture of techniques, including pictorial and photographic procedures and developments with computer. This very same year, in his exhibition from The ICO Foundation of Madrid, has introduced photographic images in motion and screenings which make his painting become an expanded field.
Peggy Ahwesh
Over the last twenty odd years, I have developed a heterogeneous body of work in the field of experimental film, digital media and audio. Aptly described as a bricoleur, I work in a combination of narrative and documentary styles, improvisational performance, found footage, noise and nonsense, utilizing a variety of obsolete, low end and arcane technologies. My work is primarily an investigation of cultural identity and the role of the subject, in various genres. My practice insists on political and social topicality, handled with theoretical rigor, while at the same time using humour and the absurd in an open embrace of the inexplicable, the subjective experiences of the individual, the mundane and discourses of poetic non-closure. I came of age in the 1970’s with Super 8mm filmmaking, feminism and the punk underground. I apply the discourses of feminism, film theory and history to what are traditionally female-gendered themes, like home and family drama, relationships and confessions and turn the conventions of direction, character, realism and performance on end.
