Congratulations to the winner - Torsten Lauschman - of the inaugural Glasgow Film Festival Margaret Tait Award which was announced on Monday 8 March at a special screening at the Glasgow Film Theatre celebrating the work of Margaret Tait herself.
The shorlisted candidates were Sarah Tripp, Henry Coombes, Torsten Lauschman, Alexander and Susan Maris and Aileen Campbell however, the £10,000 commission was awarded to Glasgow based-artist Torsten Lauschmann. He will now create a new piece of work which will be exhibited at next year’s Glasgow Film Festival 17 – 27 February 2011.
Torstenwas born in Bad Soden, Germanyand currently lives and works in Glasgow. He has been influential within the art scene in Scotland for over 10 years and his diverse practice continually shifts and plays with expectations of image and the creation and interpretation of meaning. Lauschmann had been nominated for the Margaret Tait Award by the Glasgow-based gallery Mary Mary. For further details on his work and his exhibition history click here.
"A unique and underrated filmmaker, nobody like her. Born of the Italian neo-realists, formed of her own Scottish pragmatism, optimism, generosity and experimental spirit, and a clear forerunner of the English experimental directors of the late 20th century. A clear example of, and pioneer of, the poetic tradition, the experimental tradition, the democratic tradition, in the best of risk-taking Scottish cinema." Ali Smith, from www.luxonline.org.uk
Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) have just announced a new award, named after the pioneering Scottish artist filmmaker Margaret Tait (1918-1999), for artists working with film and video. Supported by The Scottish Arts Council, Scottish Screen and in partnership with LUX, The Margaret Tait Award will recognise artists who are experimental, innovative and who work within film and moving image. The aim of The Margaret Tait Award is to support artists and provide a high profile platform from which to exhibit their work and engage with a wider audience.
The recipient of The Margaret Tait Award will receive a £10,000 commission to make a new work for Glasgow Film Festival 2011 and to tour through LUX.
The Margaret Tait Award is inspired by the wealth of talent emerging from Scotland within this field and aims to raise the profile of the many galleries, curators and arts organisations who support this area of work. It allows the Glasgow Film Festival to have a lasting and meaningful impact on the careers of new filmmaking talent, to support new commissions and forge new partnerships across the sector.
For more information on Margaret Tait please click here.
The shortlisted artists are: Sarah Tripp, Henry Coombes, Torsten Lauschman, Alexander and Susan Maris and Aileen Campbell.
This year the Glasgow Short Film Festival will hold a competition for Best International Short Film to celebrate inspiration and innovation in new cinema. Drawn from the programmes of new films, selected by the Magic Lantern team and judged by a jury of film insiders, filmmakers will compete for a cash prize of £500.
The winner was be announced at 8pm on Sunday 21 February at the CCA followed by music from Huntleys and Palmers.
Congratulations to Glasgow Best International Short Film Award-winner Johanna Wagner for her documentary PETER IN RADIOLAND.
Cynthia Beatt is a director, writer and curator. She grew up in Jamaica and later the Fiji Islands. Cynthia studied art in England, before travelling in the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan and India. She joined the experimental film sales and distribution company 24 Frames in London, and has been based in Berlin since 1975. Her films include the ethnographic feature Study of an Island (1978-80), Fury Is A Feeling Too (1983) and The Party: Nature Morte (1991). She has returned to Glasgow several times to shoot scenes for her ongoing project A House In Berlin, describing the city as one of her favourite places.
Ray Tintori is an American director and screenwriter. His undergraduate thesis film Death to the Tinman premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where it received an Honorable Mention for Short Filmmaking. Along with Benh Zeitlin, Ray is a founding member of the Court 13 filmmaking collective. His music video credits include four videos for the band MGMT as well for Chairlift, The Cool Kids, The Killers, and Boy Crisis. Ray currently lives in New Orleans where he is working on the script for his first feature, an adaptation of the novel ‘Light Boxes’, produced by Spike Jonze. This is his first visit to Glasgow.
After studying history at Glasgow University, Louise Welsh established a second-hand bookshop, where she worked for many years. Her first Glasgow-set novel, ‘The Cutting Room’, won several awards, including the 2002 Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger, and was jointly awarded the 2002 Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Two further novels ‘Tamburlaine Must Die’ (2004) and ‘The Bullet Trick’ (2006) were also highly acclaimed. She recently received the City of Glasgow Lord Provost’s Award for Literature. Her fourth novel, ‘Naming the Bones’, will be published in March 2010 by Canongate Books. Louise lives in Glasgow.
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