The Finalists of “VAFA International Video Art Festival 2016” has been announced!
2016-10-28
VAFA 2016 open call have received a total of 266 submissions by 136 artists or collectives from 42 countries and territories. The 8 finalists featured in the exhibition are:
Winner:

 Ariane Loze - “Les Colombes”, 13:50, Belgium, 2016
Four honorable mentions:
 Zihui Song - “What We Talk About When We Talk About Abortion”, 16:18, China, 2015
 Isabella Gresser - “Iris 2.0”, 2:00, Germany, 2015
 Mariana Rocha - “Death Diaries: Graceful Degradation”, 10:00, Brazil, 2016
 Lina Selander - “The Offspring resembles The Parent”, 13:44, Sweden, 2015
Three finalists:
 Fabian Heitzhausen - “Radical Chic”, 3:19, Germany, 2015
 Patrick Tschudi - “Instant Traveller”, 5:35, Peru, 2015
 Daz Disley and Fenia Kotsopoulou - “There’s No Limit To Your Love”, 4:00, UK/Greece, 2016
As part of the festival and following previous tradition VAFA also show a number of works as a screening program. This year 23 videos will be screened at Orient Foundation on November 20.
Irena Pascali - “Art & Craft”, 9:00, Macedonia/Germany, 2016 Chun-Yu Liu - “A Complete Story Between the Strait”, 12:46, Taiwan/UK, 2014 Arezou Zibaei - “Burried Alive”, 2:22, Iran, 2015 Minki Hong - “Noodle in the Rain”, 7:10, South Korea/USA, 2014 Francesca Lolli - “Just Want To Be a Woman”, 2:48, Italy, 2014 Sanaz Sohrabi - “Disposables”, 12:07, Iran/USA, 2015 Piotr Piasta - “Porun Stanislaw from Brudnow”, 4:00, Poland, 2014 Wang Li Chen - “Make Love”, 10:48, China, 2014 Ariane Loze - “Subordination”, 7:00, Belgium, 2015 Adrian Regnier Chavez – “La Fuga V.1”, 3:33, Mexico, 2015 Alejandro Fargosonini - “Succulenta”, 8:09, Greece/USA, 2015 Ben Huang - “Blowing Wind”, 1:49, China, 2016 Billy Sims - “Tempo Rubato”, 3:03, USA, 2015 Duygu Nazli Akova - “Chaos In Cosmos”, 4:21, Turkey, 2014 Carlos Sena Caires - “Don’t You Dare Touch Me”, 4:02, Portugal, 2016 Florencia Levy - “Attachment”, 5:50, China/Argentina, 2016 Kit Lee – “Landscape_Sea01/02/03”, 2:23, Macau, 2016 Christin Bolewski - “Shizen?Natural”, 7:16, Germany, 2015 Haruka Mitani & Michael Lyons - “Blue Movement”, 3:45, Japan, 2016 Roland Wegerer - “The Skloib or The Hummerbichler”, 3:49, Austria, 2016 Sandrine Deumier - “Soft Butterfly”, 0:51, France, 2016 Thomas Kyhn - “History of Religion”, 5:22, Denmark, 2016 Loi Chon Pang - “Concrete Jungle”, 3:50, Macau, 2015
“VAFA International Video Festival 2016” will take place at Casa Garden, Orient Foundation. The exhibition will open to public till 30 of November, 2016. The gallery is open from 10:00am to 7:00pm, while closing on Mondays. This event is partly sponsored by Secretariat of Social Affairs and Culture and Cultural Affairs Bureau of Macao SAR Government. For enquiries, please call (853) 2836 6064 during office hours or email to info@afamacau.com .For more information please visit www.afamacau.com.
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