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OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD 2019 – DOCUMENTARY FILM
Ruth Kaaserer
Born in Kitzbühl, Austria in 1972, Ruth Kaaserer grew up in Munich. She studied sculpture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Michelangelo Pistoletto. In 2001, she set up an exhibit in an abandoned country movie theater in Lower Austria together with Almut Rink. They subsequently released a book entitled Kino ohne Land – No place for a cinema, including texts about alternative cinema. Since 2002 Kaaserer has been traveling regularly to the USA where in 2014 she produced Tough Cookies, her first feature-length documentary film. Her documentary film Gwendolyn (2017) about weight lifter and retired Assyriologist Gwendolyn Leick, was widely screened at festivals and garnered numerous accolades. Kaaserer currently lives and works in Vienna.
Films (Selection)
2017 Gwendolyn (DCP, 85 min)
2014 Tough Cookies (DCP, 80 min)
Awards and Honors (Selection)
2019 Outstanding Artist Award – Documentary Film, Federal Chancellery of Austria
2018 Franz Grabner Award, Diagonale
2017 Erste Bank ExtraValue Film Award, Viennale
RUTH KAASERER
© Lisa Truttmann
We have chosen to honor documentary filmmaker Ruth Kaaserer for the impressive maturity of her work up until now and the steady hand she exhibits in the choice and realization of her stories. In the making of her films, Ruth Kaaserer takes her very own time to listen and to watch. Her finely woven dramaturgy creates living orlds inhabited by protagonists who teach us: Everything is a matter of attitude.
Kaaserer stages scenes in front of the camera with empathy, intelligence and a multi-facetted sensibility. In so doing, she has developed a style that combines documentary modes with a visual vocabulary familiar to us from fiction. The result is nothing less than: especially worth seeing!
JURY: KATRINA DASCHNER, GERALD KERKLETZ, ELISABETH SCHARANG
English translation by Eve Heller
OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD 2019 – INNOVATIVE FILM
Hannes Böck
Born 1974 in Vienna. 1994–1996 apprenticeship in photography, Vienna; 1997– 2003 studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, master class in Conceptual Art under Renée Green; studies at Berlin University of the Arts, Heinz Emigholz Experimental Filmmaking Class; 2005 graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, master class under Marina Grzinic; 2011–2014 senior artist at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, in film and video.
Main fields of research include technologies of film and video production in art and experimental film, historical visual languages in narrative and experimental cinema, visual language in scientific image production. Discourses on film aesthetics, visual studies and historical criticism provide central points of reference in Böck’s films and photo series.
Films (Selection)
2019 Sammlung Bau- und Schmuckstein Altes Rom (16 mm, silent, 15 min) 2013 5 Skulpturen (16 mm, silent, 9 min) 2012 Las Encantadas (16 mm, 10 min) 2011 Niches Cut Into Bedrock (16 mm, 10 min) 2008 New Hefei (16 mm, 10 min)
Prizes and Scholarships (Selection)
2019 Outstanding Artist Award – Innovative Film, Federal Chancellery of Austria
2009 Studio Scholarship Mexico City Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Austria
2006 Studio Scholarship Nanjing, China Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Austria
2004 Work Scholarship, Federal Chancellery of Austria
HANNES BÖCK
© Philipp Fleischmann
The jury distinguishes Hannes Böck for outstanding achievement as cinematographer, film and image processor in the field of innovative film. Over the course of many years, his precise visual composition and editing work has contributed to the success of innumerable Austrian productions created by a wide array of artists including Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Constanze Ruhm, Dorit Margreiter and Florian Pumhösl. It is impossible to imagine the field of innovative film without Hannes Böck, and likewise, his sensitive way of understanding the most various of artistic processes. His consistently static images appear electrified. It is as if he breathes life into the surfaces, architecture and landscapes he films, capturing images that exhale an extraordinary calm and clarity that we encounter onscreen. Similarly, his montage work captivates by virtue of a slowness that instinctively finds the right rhythm, abstract images often seeming to communicate with one another as if engaged in a natural dialog.
JURY: KATRINA DASCHNER, GERALD KERKLETZ, ELISABETH SCHARANG
English translation by Eve Heller
