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2021 United States Super 8mm Film & Digital Video Festival Winners Announced!


By Al Nigrin

originally published: 02/22/2021



 


2021 United States Super 8mm Film & Digital Video Festival Winners




Best of the Festival


New Mexico Death Wish Diatribe – Georg Koszulinski (Wilmington, North Carolina)


Narcisi – Rebecca Lejić-Tiernan (Los Angeles, California)


WORLD PREMIERE VIDEO – Mike J. Nichols (Burbank, California)


JUDY VERSUS CAPITALISM – Mike Hoolboom (Toronto, Canada)




Honorable Mention


lat.copaire – Claudia Ungersbäck (Wien, Austria)


Portrait of a Family as a Definition – Adriane Little (Kalamazoo, Michigan)


3 Sons – Ed Sayers (London, England)


noonwraith blues – Kamila Kuc (London, England)


Out In The Sky Nobody Sleeps – Edgar García Chávez (Portland, Oregon)


Goodbye Seventies – Todd Verow (New York, New York)


Inside Out I – Victory Furniture (New York, New York)




Many thanks to Pro 8mm and OVID for sponsoring our Festival and providing the prizes for the Best of Festival winners! See you next year!

Information:
Professor Albert G. Nigrin,

Executive Director/Curator,

New Jersey Film Festival,

United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival,
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center,

Program In Cinema Studies, Rutgers University,

4170 Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place,

New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8525

848-932-8482 fon

www.alnigrin.com

www.njfilmfest.com




Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental media artist whose work has been screened throughout the world. He is also a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director/Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc.




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