Dagmar Schürrer

Dagmar Schürrer's two-part video work VIRTUALIZED captivates through its materiality without being material. It seduces through its haptic without being tangible. She disturbs with organic forms and sounds that are largely artificial. The artist's focus is on the virtual, which, ...

Nick Flaherty
Supernova Competition 2020 Honorable Mention

What was once familiar is now unrecognizable. All previous desires are overshadowed by the need to disappear completely.

Geoff Hecht
Supernova Competition 2020 Honorable Mention

Today is an important day for Zak, but everything is going horribly wrong. (When his car won’t start), he has no choice but to use public transportation. During his 8-minute bus ride, Zak goes through a deeply personal metamorphosis and co...

Yibo Xu
Honorable Mention in Supernova Student Shorts program

In order to make a living, a red panda who comes to Tanuki City decides to change his identity. Even though he turns into a tanuki, there are still unforgettable memories deep down in his heart.

Artist Bio:
Yibo Xu, a 2020-graduate ...

Tim Ross
Supernova Competition 2020 Honorable Mention

The film is a period piece which shows the sunny side of the 60s through the eyes of a local Sunshine Pop band who have songs on the radio, but have never broken out of the local scene. This starts out as a "day in the life" view of the band ...

Wyatt Hall and Kaz Fantone
Honorable Mention in Supernova Student Shorts program

NEARSIDERS features Max and Alan, treasure hunters in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, caught in a breakneck chase for earth's most delicious devourable.

Directors' Statement:
"It’s been a fantastic experience to cre...

Kimberly Burleigh
Director's Choice Award of Distinction 2020

Jealousy is an experimental 3D animation. It features an elemental digital construction of the plantation house meticulously described in the seminal 1957 novel La Jalousie by French writer Robbe-Grillet. No characters are depicted in...

Molly Murphy
Honorable Mention World on Fire Program 2020

The world is about to be swallowed by a black hole. Meteorites fall from the sky, ocean waves take on enormous new heights, and chaos abounds in city streets as people confront their looming demise. The world turns to wealthy entrepreneur...

Gustavo Carreiro / Favo Studio
Honorable Mention World on Fire Program 2020

Puberty is a peculiar time, characterised by enormous changes, insecurities and questionable choices. Now imagine if you add a global virus to the mix.

Nat Nichols
Grand Prize award winner Student Shorts Competition 2020

A cyborg named Scott is looking for the perfect gift for a loved one, but not all is well in this futuristic city when he finds his own picture on a wanted poster...

Artist Bio:
"Hi! My name is Natalie Nichols, but you may kno...

Sine Özbilge is the winner of Supernova 2020's coveted Grand Prize Award in the Competition program, for her delirious animation #21xoxo

Festival Founder and Creative Director Ivar Zeile caught up with Sine shortly following the announcement of the award.

Sean Capone
Honorable Mention World on Fire Program 2020

A cartoon virus delivers an upbeat philosophic monologue from deep inside the microbiological realm.

A discussion with Sarah Banks, Director of "I think god is a cloud," one of the Silent Screen compositions for Supernova 2020, as well as "Tunnel of Love" from the program Space Dust curated by Snow Yunxue Fu.

Raquel Meyers
2nd Place Award winner World on Fire Program 2020

‘Inattention’ is a #Teletext based animation made at the Residency Irudika 2020 and, it was finished in confinement on May 3, 2020, in Angoulême.
This project has been possible thanks to the collaboration of Acción Cultural Española...

Ted Wiggin
3rd Place Award Winner Supernova Competition 2020

Animals encounter a ball that gives magical powers and sows conflict between them.

Artist Bio:
Ted makes short films and software for animation. He strives to create new techniques through custom software and to explore their express...

Huckleberry Hax
2nd Place Award Winner Supernova Competition 2020

In a future where the climate has collapsed, a bounty hunter is hired to find a missing coder with the skills to access the forbidden media files that will show what actually happened to the planet. STÖMOL is a movie filmed enti...

Watch to find out who won

Supernova congratulates the award winners in this year's festival in the following categories:

Annual competition
World on Fire
Director's Choice
Student Shorts
Gifathon

Maja GEHRIG
Grand Prize Award Winner World on Fire Program 2020

During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots...

Sine Özbilge
Grand Prize Award Winner Supernova Competition 2020

21XOXO is a surreal and humorous reflection on the 21th century youth. The story is about a girl and her online search for love in times of social media, speed dating, cyberlove, hipster culture and post-net attitudes. The protago...

Supernova 2020 Virtual Launch Event

Coming to you from the Buell Community Media Center at the Denver Community Media Studios, the fantabulous Supernova Digital Animation Festival WORLD ON FIRE virtual launch event, featuring simulations, artists, one guy talking a lot, and then letting others t...

Tough Guy Mountain: Cat Bluemke, Iain Soder, and Jonathan Carroll

The state of the world forces three artists to become unpaid interns inside their own virtual reality project. Their fantastical new employers drop the worst crisis they have ever suffered right onto the new intern’s live/work cu...

Patrick Henry

The naive assets and exhausted objects are tired of being subjected to ‘Throwness’. They have shunned the absurdity of the material world and now simply want to exist in the realm of the Virtual Kingdoms. Let them be.

Artist Bio:
Patrick Henry is based in Dublin, Ireland and work...

Theo Triantafyllidis

Screen piece, custom software, live simulation.
72” HD TV, gaming PC
Still life with Yumyums is a playful nod to the tradition of still life paintings as self-contained narratives frozen in time, driven the symbolism imbued to everyday objects. A population of virtual creatu...

Supernova's first simulated environment, one designed by Digerati wunderkind Ryan Wurst using Unity software, features short samples of all Supernova's featured program animations, appearing as they might on our 14th and Champa public LED screen. The audience are mostly aliens, and Steve the Slot...