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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