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Second Prize BRAZIL Between My Hands 2010 Alexandre Braga Brandão Duration: 3’ 40” Original format: Mini DV Music: Alexandre Braga Brandão E‐mail: alexandrebbrandao@terra.com.br and alexandrebragabrandao@gmail.com Synopsis: Between My Hands is the semantic examination of a traditional game. A lone player plays rock‐paper‐scissors by manipulating drawings. The old duel in which all options can either win or lose when faced with any of the others takes unexpected turns as new and unpredictable objects join the game. Alexandre Braga Brandão was born in 1979 in Belo Horizonte, capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, and he currently lives in São Paulo. In 2002, he graduated with a degree in social communication from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and in 2005 he was awarded a diploma in visual arts from the University of Minas Gerais State, both in Belo Horizonte. He held two solo shows in this city: “Entrebranco” in 2006 and a Guignard School Open Studio exhibition in 2010. In 2005 he took part in the Fifteenth International Electronic Art Festival held in São Paulo, and between 2005 and 2010 he participated in a number of important events, including the KunstFilmBiennale in the German city of Cologne, the Tenth Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, the Fifty‐Ninth April Exhibition in Fortaleza, Brazil, and the “10 + 20” exhibition held at the Emma Thomas Gallery in São Paulo. His audiovisual work also includes Sudden Seconds (2005), Volatile Landscapes (2008), and Windtree (2008). 8
Third Prize MEXICO Vigilantes (Museum Guards) 2010 Benjamín López Alcántara Duration: 5’ Original format: Mini DV Script: Benjamín Alcántara E‐mail: alcantara_benja@hotmail.com and benjaminalcantara@via69.com.mx Synopsis: This video portrays the people in charge of guarding the different rooms in Mexico City’s contemporary art museums. It is full of questions and reflections on the time and working habits of these guards in a space that guides the viewer to a temple or monument: a space that paradoxically rises up in order to legitimize and exhibit artistic statements that are often lacking in any meaning. Benjamín López Alcántara was born in Mexico City in 1969. In 1999, he graduated with a degree in communication from the Autonomous University of Mexico. He has received many awards. In 2006, he won the Second Prize at the Third Inter‐ American Biennial of Video Art organized by the IDB Cultural Center and was awarded First Prize in the Documentary Category at the “El Cine a las Calles” Short Film Festival held in Mexico City. In 2007, he received the Jury’s Special Prize at the Fifth Digital International Film Festival in the Chilean city of Viña del Mar. In 2008, he was awarded First Prize at the Eighth Sexual Film Festival in Buenos Aires, and in 2010 he was selected for the Support Program for Art and Media Production and Research in Mexico. He has presented several solo shows in the Mexican capital, including “Fotoseptiembre” at the Auditorio subway station (1994); “Creadores Contemporáneos” at the Mexico Photography Club (1996); “Artificio” at the Centro Médico subway station (2009); and “Entre Bárbaros” in the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Room at the Photography Museum and Archive (2010). He has taken part in a range of group shows, including “Cotidianeidad Documentada” at the Huesca Imagen Festival in Spain (2004); “Artemergente,” the 2006 National Monterrey Biennial, at the Cultural Center in Nuevo León, Mexico (2006); “6‐Pack” at the Houston Center for Photography (2007); “Citámbulos: un viaje a la megalópolis mexicana” at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum in Berlin (2008); and “100 Fotógrafos Contemporáneos de México” at Cuartel del Arte (SINAFO) in Pachuca, Hidalgo (2009). His video and film work also include his video art productions ¿Quién es José Martí (Who Is José Marti) (2005), Hilo Rojo (Red Thread) (2007), and Domenika (2008), the 21‐minute documentary short film XHPG (2006), and the 10‐minute experimental short film Habitación 212 (Room 212) (2007), all filmed and produced in Mexico. 9
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