2022 NOMINATIONS
BEST
ANIMATED FILM
A Perfect Storm
dir. Karel Doing
Nominated for Best Animated Film
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A Perfect Storm is a landscape film or, more precisely, a landscape imprinted on the film's emulsion. The artist has used seeds, tiny composite flowers and other small elements of cultivated plants that grow in his garden and wild plant species gathered from a nearby nature reserve. The film consists of sequences that are intricately composed and parts that are completely 'self-organised'. As such plants appear not merely as inanimate objects but rather as characters who are expressive in their own right. Such otherworldliness is also reflected in a sequence of gargoyles, providing a link to the hidden animist tendencies that prevail in human culture. This primordial expressiveness is underlined by an improvised guitar solo by the inimitable Florian Magnus Maier.
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So Long (We Dreamt of This)
dir. Lewis Heriz
Nominated for Best Animated Film
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In a world where human consciousness is fused with the network, someone tries to tend to their plants. Persistent thoughts draw them into an alienating place with the promise of constant connection.
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The Copper Kings
dir. Léna Lewis-King
Nominated for Best Animated Film
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Through exploring the body as a landscape, 'The Copper Kings' plays with visual metaphors that connect the patriarchal philosophy and process of extraction to the dissection of our own bodies.
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Yorkshire Dirt
dir. Ed Carr
Nominated for Best Experimental Film & Best Animated Film
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YORKSHIRE DIRT is an animation printed entirely on soil using a new process innovated by the artist. The film is an experimental collage of rural culture in relation to animals, and how it feeds into the local psyche. Through printing directly onto the soil, the film shows how our relationship to the nonhuman world impacts our environment and the climate crisis - resulting in soil exhaustion. It is also a commentary on how our identity is embedded in the earth, but is spoiled by our violent systems.
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