01.SCREENINGS

The center piece of the Kassel Dokfest is the film program, divided into three sections:

02.MONITORING

Up to 16 contemporary media installations and sculptures by up-and-coming as well as well-known artists will be presented at the exhibition Monitoring.

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03.DOKFEST LOUNGE

The DokfestLounge is not only the location for audiovisual performances by international artists, VJs and DJs but also the nocturnal meeting point for our guests after 10.30 pm.

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04.INTERFICTION

The Workshop symposium interfiction offers lectures, presentations and workshop-sessions concerning a yearly changing topic, which takes a closer look at the political, social and artistic aspects of the medium internet.

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05.JUNGES DOKFEST

This educational side program is aimed at school students from the 7th till the 13th grade as well as teachers. The project consists of special film programs as well as workshops about film analysis and criticism under the guidance of media educators.

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06.DOKFEST FORUM

The DokfestForum offers panels, lectures and screenings that raise questions about the interfaces between film and art. During the daytime the DokfestForum as a festival meeting point will provide a café with a video library for accredited guests.

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07.EDUCATION

With the Hessian University Film Day, the presentation of a European Film College and hands-on workshops and lectures, the Kassel Dokfest offers possibilities for further education, information on education opportunities and access to professional networks for (Hessian) up-and-coming filmmakers.

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Golden Cube

The „Golden Cube“, endowed with 3.500 €, is awarded to the best media installation presented in the exhibition monitoring and is sponsored by the software company Micromata GmbH. All works presented in the exhibition are automatically nominated for this prize.

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Nominees 2012

Tilmann Aechtner (Avatare), Philipp Artus (Snail Trail), Clarisse Hahn (Our Body is a Weapon), Francis Hunger (Tolpa), Simona Koch (Grenzen), Steffen Köhn, Paola Calvo (A Tale of Two Islands), Emanuel Mathias (Nebahats Schwestern), Kristin Meyer (la la la), Henrike Naumann (Triangular Stories), Hein-Godehart Petschulat (Die Wand), Sascha Pohle (Statues Also Die), Taiki Sakpisit (A Ripe Volcano), Marko Schiefelbein (I can. You can), Oli Sorenson (antimap), Dennis Stein-Schomburg (A Kind of Sad Story), Florian Thalhofer (Das Geld und die Griechen), Pim Zwier (Atemlos)

Jury 2012

Wolfgang Jung
Anu Pennanen
Johanna Schaffer
Olaf Stüber
Jan Verbeek

Award winners

2012 Emanuel Mathias: Nebahats Schwestern

2011 Anu Pennanen: La ruine de regard / Die Ruine des Blicks
2010 Lukas Thiele, Tilman Hatje: Weltmaschine
2009 Sophie Ernst: HOME
2008 Stefanos Tsivopoulos: Untitled (The Remake)
2007 Erik Olofsen: Public Figures
2006 Markus Bertuch: Walperloh
2005 Eske Schlüters: Knowing as much as the man in the moon
2004 Renzo Martens: Episode 1
2003 Claudia Aravena Abughosh: Greetings from Palestina