Jury 2017
Clemens Camphausen
Bettina Fraschke
Michael Jonke
Wibke Jungmann
Christian Wittmoser
The competition for the „Golden Hercules“ is open to all formats and genres presentable on a big screen. Space-oriented works and internet projects cannot be taken into consideration. The prize is sponsored by the Machbar GmbH, an agency for corporate communication with its head office in Kassel, and endowed with 3,500 €. The following works can be admitted for the regional competition:
- works whose director’s place of residence is in Northern Hesse or
- works whose directors are enrolled in the University of Kassel, the Kassel College of Fine Arts or a comparable institution in Northern Hesse or
- works that were realized and produced in Northern Hesse.
All works that meet at least one of the criteria above are automatically nominated for the “Golden Hercules”. The selected predominantly short works are shown in special compilation programs as well as part of the regular program.
Nominees 2017
Heikki Ahola (Sex at the Ski Center), Joey Arand (Gebär_Mütter), Joscha Bongard (Nostalgic Love), Daniel von Bothmer (Die Fotzy-Biene, The Pussy-Bee), Karl Brunnengräber (Ibrahim Mahama, Maria Hassabi: Staging, Cecilia Vicuña, 1 Meter pro Sekunde ohne Lucius Burckhardt, Anton Kats), Helena Buttgereit, Melina Werner (Marta Minujin), Thea Drechsler (Welcome to the Expats), Brigit Edelmann (La cinquième planète_un allumeur de réverbères, The Fifth Planet_a Lamplighter), Michael Gärtner, Milan Soremski (documenta 14 entýposis), Annika Glass, Miguel Wysocki (Split Time), Johanna Groß (Olaf Holzapfel), Holger Jenss (Rainer Oldendorf), Seungkyu Jung (Manipulation 18.05.), Ferdinand Kowalke (goprxxxx), Till Krüger (Guillermo Galindo: Sonic Exodus),
Till Krüger, Daniel Hellwig (Joar Nango: European Everything, Pope.L: Whispering Campaign), Till Krüger, Julia Allnoch (Marina Gioti), Alexandra Leibmann (Paralanguage), Aya Limbacher (Manifest), Zuyen Lin-Woywod, Wen Hsaun Chang, Hannah Windisch, Isabella Artadi, Thea Josepha Konatsu Drechsler (Daily Notes), Florian Maubach (Räuber & Gendarm, Robbers vs. Cops), Alejandra Montoya (Impermanence of Being), Lucie Friederike Mueller (Arms), Alexandra Münzner, Bahiyyeh Panahi, Malika Salama (Georgia Sagri), Kerstin Rupprecht (Black with a Luminous Edge), Malika Salama (Lala Meredith-Vula, Angelo Plessas), Malika Salama, Bahiyyeh Panahi (Mattin: Social Dissonance), Malika Salama, Sita Scherer (Gernot Minke), Tobi Sauer (Ben Russel, Jonas Mekas, Wang Bing), Sita Scherer (Mary Zygouri), Jonatan Schwenk (Sog), Wenti Sheng (Dressur), Ulf Staeger (Modern Face), Rike Suhr (Hairness), Karolin Twiddy (Manly Mountain of Men), Catrine Val (An Ode to Vaginismus), Stefan Vogt (Gott kommt – Evolutio, Gott kommt – Fractura), Alma Weber (Obvious), Clara Winter, Miguel Ferráez (Poor People Relax Me), Cilian X. Woywod (Let‘s play: Manchild Ep. 1 „love you mama“), Pablo Zinser, Dorothee Hase (Parallel Lives)
Award winners
2017 Jonatan Schwenk: Sog
2016 Christian Wittmoser: Emily Must Wait
2015 Zuniel Kim: Der Langstreckenläufer
2014 Martin Schmidt: Emil
2013 Benjamin Brix, Steffen Martin, Felix M. Ott.:EMPTYLANDS
2012 Jan Riesenbeck: Sixth Sense, Third Eye, Second Sight
2011 Dennis Stein-Schomburg: Andersartig
2010 Olaf Saumer: Suicide Club
2009 Thomas Majewski: Verborgen in Schnuttenbach
2008 Nico Sommer: Stiller Frühling
2007 Marta Malowanczyk: Marla
2006 Hyekung Jung: Drawing the Line
2005 Matthias Stockloew (Ütz): Grosse Kinder
2004 Héctor Jesús Gutiérrez Rodriguez: Ese es mi chama? Das ist mein Junge
2003 Salah Ahmed El Oulidi: Die Andalusische Nacht
2002 Christoph Steinau: Kommt alles Anders
2001 Holger Ernst: Kleine Fische