about fair_play
Founded in Berlin in 2003 as a curated screening platform, to foster the use of filmic language in art.
Fair_Play awards contemporary artistic efforts in blurring technical and aesthetic distinction between art and film. Goal of the award is to reveal new layers of communication between film and art and to stimulate the development of new visual languages and narratives. Fair_Play focuses on film and video works which are conceived specifically for a single-channel, wide screen projection.
Through the screening of film and video works, Fair_Play aims to create an international, multilateral platform of discussion about the relationship between art and film and to serve as a meeting point for a diverse and international group of professionals from the fields of contemporary art, film and video to engage and exchange in critical discourse.
CURATORIAL committee_
Submission of works is by invitation only. Artists are proposed for submission of their most recent works by a Curatorial Committee, which is composed by independent curators, institution directors, artists and experts from the film industry. Each member of the curatorial committee brings expert knowledge in their respective fields and geographic locations, securing the widest possible range of international, talented artists nominated to participate to the competition.
AWARD committee (JURY)_
The Award Committee is composed by 7 experts, exceptionally experienced in the field of video-art and film. Members of the committee are professionals of the film industry, curators, academics and artists. The committee will award a first, second and a third prize in money as follows: first prize euro 5.000, second prize euro 3.500, third prize euro 2.000.
INITIAL SPONSOR_
FINE ARTS UNTERNEHMEN AG._
Fine Arts Unternehmen AG. is a swiss based company established in 1999 with the aim of promoting cultural exchange and knowledge in the field of visual arts, by organising and producing exhibitions and events, both in private and public spaces. The company has subsequently, in the course of the years, concentrated its activity mainly in the developments of two brands: Fine Arts Unternehmen books, and Fine Arts Unternehmen video+film. The former established to promote contemporary artists with a new series entitled the book bywhich includes a number of monographs entirely conceived by the artists in collaboration with an independent curator and edited by Fine arts Unternehmen books as an “artist’s project”. The latter established to produce video and films by young artist-filmmakers. The driving force behind the enterprise is to fascinate and stimulate the public with new visual languages and narratives that represent an aesthetical and intellectual alternative to the flood of images constantly transmitted by traditional commercial film industry, media and advertising, and concentrate therefore its efforts on projects which are different from the mainstream ideas of film or of video such as: Revival Paradise by Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger (Locarno 2005), Loneliness & The Modern Pentathlon by Daria Martin (Locarno 2006), Alias by Aldo Runfola (Locarno 2006), Killer Shrimps by Piero Golia (Venice Cinema Festival 61°). Nearly all of the projects which have been produced by the company found their way into the big international exhibition venues, major film festivals and institutional shows.