IE Winners 2006 Announcement

CURATOR: STEPHANIE MARTZ
JURY: ADDICTIVE TV

2006 has been a very busy year for Microcinema International's international touring festival!

Independent Exposure has screed at film festivals and microcinemas across the country and members of the microcinema curatorial team have participated in lectures programs and panel discussions. In May the San Francisco International Film Festival screened a version of our Mobile Exposure program as part of their new KinoTek festival which explores new media technologies. Four Independent Exposure programs were screened earlier this summer at the "Images and Views of the Alternative Cinema Festival" in Nicosia, Cyprus. We have also been on panel discussions at the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival as well as South by Southwest in Austin. In February, Microcinema International performed as a VJ alongside Grand Master Flash at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the MFAH/Starbucks "Beats of Basquiat" series. Not only have all of these exciting events and others kept us very busy, but with over 700 submissions that came in from our 2006 Call for Works, we had our hands full in reviewing and selecting films for the 2006 season

We curated seven programs for 2006 - each one an important showcase for contemporary, progressive, artistic, and culturally relevant short films and videos. Each program was curated to present a diverse an eclectic set of works in an intentional context. All of the shows are meant to challenge, intrigue, surprise, and most importantly - to entertain. If our experiences over the last ten years hold true for this year, we know that you will love some of the works - and love some of the others a bit less. But we hope that you walk away from the shows with a better appreciation of the depth of creativity that exists in the moving images arts. This is what motivates us.

Foreign cinema

As always we spend a lot of time to make sure that our shows make their way ot screens in hard to find places. Our curatorial aesthetic is further supported by the presentation of the Independent Exposure series in non-traditional venues or "microcinemas" such as galleries, cafes, bars, nightclubs, outdoors, and other alternative spaces that support the independent arts. To date, Independent Exposure has been presented hundreds of times in 43 countries plus Palestine and Antarctica and a base camp on Mt. Everest. See our continually-updated screening schedule here.

Congratulations!

This year our judge, Addictive TV (pictured above), visited San Francisco to view over 100 moving image artists shorts and selected the three prize winners below. Congratulations! Addictive TV also selected their "favorites" and these are included in a special program that will be presented at our awards screening in San Francisco as well as to microcinemas, festivals, museums and universities around the US, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East. This program, Independent Exposure 2006 - Addictive TV Best of 2006 Edition will also be made into a DVD that will be sold in our online DVD store and distributed by Microcinema International Distribution.

For 2007 we expect an even more amazing year. Panasonic Broadcast once again is our primary partner and is supporting us in our mission to seek out and present contemporary moving image artists from around the world. Our 2007 Call For Works will be out shortly so stay tuned for announcements about prizes and our new juror.

Thank You

We would like to thank Panasonic Broadcast for its support of the 2006 season. We would also like to thank Hannspree USA. Finally, we thank all of the artists who took the time to submit their work to us. It is because of the creativity and passion of moving image artists like you that Independent Exposure was formed and exists today. So keep sending us your work!

Juried Contest Winners

	Night Visions By Kathy Huang, United States
	Soon after September 11th, Blake Roberts enlisted in the U.S. Army. Now, four years later, he has returned from Iraq a changed man. Using photographs shot by Roberts during his tour of duty, Night Visions tells the story of an average soldier, one who has come home quietly but suffers from wounds not visible to the naked eye.

	Five Infomercials for Dentists By Signe Baumane, United States
	Five bizarre infomercials introduce dentists to the substantial products of their trade: Latex gloves, anesthesia, dental tools, crowns and chocolate.

	Marvelous, Keen Looney Bin By Lizzi Akana, United States
	A day in the life of the headless, limbless, faceless, and brainless.

Carla Cope by Aileen McCormack, United States
Space Travel by Steven Lall, United Kingdom

Complete Program Roster 2006
ADDICTIVE TV BEST OF 2006 EDITION (link) 75% PAL Bars Horse by Tina Willgren, Sweden The Instructional Guide to Dating, by Siobhan Bowers, Australia Between You and Me, by Patryk Rebisz, United States etc..
HALLOWEIRD EDITION (link) Aegri Somnia (A Sick Man's Dream), by Brooke Beane, United States Clock Paint Eyeball, by Chris Ohlson, United States Frigidaire, by Virgilio Villoresi and Vivì Ponti, Italy etc..
IE 2006 - ANIMATION EDITION (link) Dentist, by Signe Baumane, United States Elegant Disposition (An Introduction), by Will Forrester, United States Tick-Tack, by Boris Despodov, Bulgaria etc..
IE 2006 FALL EDITION (link) Trauma, by Chris Ohlson, United States Reveries From Cistae Memoria, by Phil Hastings, United States Surveil, by Jake Messenger and Chirstinn Whyte, United Kingdom etc..
IE 2006 SUMMER EDITION (link) My Girl, by Brandon Kosters, United States Apple, by Gregg Biermann, United States Butterfly Man, by Samantha Rebillet, Australia etc..
IE 2006 SPRING EDITION (link) Let Go Aviary, by Sookoon Ang, Singapore Wrong Place Wrong Time, by John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson, United States Look and Say, by Nicolas Nikolov, Belgium etc..
IE 2006 PREMIERE (link) Epic Drag, by Dave Griffiths, United Kingdom Man, by Annika Glac, Australia Chronic, by Joe Kelly, Canada etc..