Short Film Competition 2018
The Crosscuts Short Film Competition is organized by the Environmental Humanities Lab, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
The winners:
Stratum
2018, HD video, 12 mins.
Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan
Soundtrack score by Lord Mongo
Jury's motivation:
‘Stratum’ is a fluid meditation superbly cutting across film-making and archival practice. Its narrative style effectively interlaces various temporalities, diffracting the lives of people and minerals, and envisioning the historical metamorphosis of places - Crosscuts Jury
Link: Stratum
Jury
Kalle Boman (Chair) – Advisor, Producer and Professor of Cinematic Composition
Serenella Iovino – Professor of Environmental Philosophy
Issraa El-Kogali – Filmmaker and Artist
Jan Olsson – Professor of Cinema Studies
Anna Åberg – Assistant Professor, History of technology and cultural studies
Contestants
Andrej Slávik with The Literal Zone: Exhibits A-J
Farideh Sakhaeifar with Halabja, 1988
Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan with Stratum
Jarell Mahinay Serencio with Siyudad Sa Bulawan (City of Gold)
Michael Glowacki with A life of Debt
Stine Alling Jacobsen with Times of extraction
Viveca Mellegård with Mapping Majang