[Frameworks] FLEX - rated kick ass by an all female jury

[Warren Cockerham]

The* FL*orida *EX*perimental Film/Video Festival ended yesterday with an
awards ceremony at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA). The
FLEX '19 jurors <https://www.flexfest.org/flex-2019-jurors/>, Nazli Dinçel,
Almudena Escobar López, and Dana Plays deliberated for a few hours
yesterday and decided on the following awards:


*https://www.flexfest.org/flex-19-jury-award-winners/
<https://www.flexfest.org/flex-19-jury-award-winners/>*


*FLEX ’19 Jury Award Winners*

*Jury Cash Awards ($300 each)*

*Love and the Epiphanists* by Scott Stark
for combining multiple media formats to challenge narratives
that are the basis of the Hollywood industry

*The Eddies* by Madsen Minax
for the wonderful and deep investigation of masculinity about what guns
mean for real

*Foreclosed Home* by Lisa Danker
for its censorious use of archival materials relating to the personal
history
of Florida.

*Becoming* by Ariel Teal
for creating a film not about blaming but becoming

*The Scott Nygren Memorial Award ($300) **

*Take it Down *by Sabine Gruffat
for interrogating the iconographic landscape of American tearing down
racist monuments ONE BY ONE erasing them from history

*Acknowledges the vision of a filmmaker that merges the forms of
documentary and experimental film hybridizing the forms while attempting to
work beyond them. This Award was established to honor the memory of a long
time FLEX supporter Scott Nygren.

*Kodak Stock Awards ($200 in stock each)*

Story of the Dreaming Water by Brittany Gravely
for its playful optical work

*Winter’s First Moons *by Kathleen Rugh
for its humor and its smart use of found sound

*What is Nothing (After What is Nothing)* by Kristin Reeves
for its examination of medical pain

*Travel Stop *by Mike Gibisser
for the true ethnographic examination of a culture where the filmmaker
actually belongs

*A Chorus of Black Voids Sings* by Mike Morris
for its investigation of film destruction

*Fifth Metacarpal* by Scott Fitzpatrick
for its bold investigation of what consent can be

*Honorable Mentions*

*Ark* by Lynne Siefert
for its critique of its specific place and a critique of culture at large

 by Milva Stutz
for its humor and deconstruction of gender stereotypes


LONG LIVE FLEX!

Warren Cockerham
Tampa, FL
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