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20.01.03 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, festival for expanded media.
Like every respectable festival about contemporary film culture, the Stuttgarter Filmwinter, too, has opened its doors for a long time to the new media and their applications to filmed sequences. Opened on January 15th, the festival includes two important sections dedicated to the making of cinematic artifacts using technological means. One is 'Gegenspieler', that is 'Antagonist', which is concentrated on the production of 'Machinima', that is, short, medium and long films made using videogame technologies, by reprogramming their software cores so as to tell, without any interaction, different stories. Paul Marino, founder of the 'Academy of Machinima Art & Sciences' of New York, will be the presenter. The other section consists in the actual competition, where a prize will be awarded to the best online and offline works and to the best installations of media art. Olia Lialina, professor of net.art at the Merzakademie, is among the members of the jury, but a prize will be awarded also on the basis of the votes that each project will get by the users of the festival's site. Among the competing works there are: 'Aisforapple' by David Clark, 'Amorphoscapes' by Stanza, '60X1.COM' by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, 'I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives' by Peter MŸhlfriedel + Gundula Markeffsky + Tim BŸsing, 'Lecielestblue' by FrŽdŽric Durieu and Kristine Malden, 'Filmtext 2.0' by Mark Amerika, 'Invisible Maps' by Paul Catanese and 'This is a Magazine', a big interactive screenzine by the italian Andy Simionato. Finally, there will also be the austrian vjing duo Claudia Rohrmoser and Marcel Schobel, former visuals of Kruder+Dorfmeister and AdamF.