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 protagonist takes us on a journey through a
colorful and bizarre imaginary world filled with absurd, surreal and metamorphic scenes.
Artist Bio:
Sine creates obscure worlds where subconscious desires, conflicts and struggles metamorphose into absurd and surreal artworks. These often have a mixed media basis where animation and live-action metamorphose in order to explore new connotations and stylistic forms. Her work focuses on Femininity, the Freudian Subconscious, our Post-Net Era and Albert Camus’ theory of Absurdism. Her characters have a certain naivety that contrast with the b&w visuals and the realism of the Rotoscope Technique.
Franz Impler
The character of a tennis video game is drifting out of his own game into an out-of-bounds world. Searching for his lost tennis-racket he finds himself in a trip trough a surreal video game world. The short film discovers the arbitrariness of boundaries and rules and deals with the ...
Joo Young Lee
In Lee’s computer-generated animation Body Keeps the Score (2019), street pigeons become a center of the narrative. The pigeons are not abject and despised birds anymore, but a symbol for resilience and witnesses to normalized deaths. With reference to both Calvino’s Invisible Citi...
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.
