FENIA KOTSOPOULOU
"BECOMING (AN)OTHER STORY" 2024
St Hugh's Foundation Award
I am one of the recipients of St Hugh's Foundation Award 2024 supported to to elevate and expand my practice in the field of feminist documentary film. Venturing into experimentation with 16mm film, I also initiate a cross-generational and cross-disciplinary exchange with Lincoln based artist Lena Sass Hughes producing a film portrait of her.
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link: https://www.sthughsfoundation.co.uk/news-and-blog/2024-award-winners-announced/
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"UMEDHA" 2020
2nd award:
4th Rajeshwari Kala Mahotasva 2020
category: International award (30th f July)
Jury: Prof. V Albert van der weide, Netherland; Professor V. Nagdas, Khairagarh; Mr. Diwan Manna, Chandigarh; Mr. Madan Lal, Chandigarh and Mr. Tutu Pattnaik, Delhi.
The work: "UMEDHA"2020, a petaloptype, has been awarded the 2nd position at the online competition (category: international - printmaking), organised by the 4th Rajeshwari Kala Mahotasva at Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar. The entries are invited in 6 categories i.e. Photography, Print- Making, Drawing, Sculpture, Digital Arts and Painting. Three prizes are set for winners of each category.
"loud silence" 2020
2nd award:
"INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE ART COMPETITION 2020"
category: PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (25th of June)
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On the behalf of Dept. of Fine Arts, Chitkara School of Art & Design, Chitkara University, Punjab, I would like to extend our gratitude for your active participation in "INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE ART COMPETITION 2020" . The artwork received the second position and award.
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CARRIAGE RETURN (2017)
special mention
SPECIAL MENTION at Festival VideoDanzaBA (Buenos Aires) 2019
category: VIDEOMINUTO
Jury: Daniel Fisher / Mariana Jaroslavsky / Alejandra Diaz
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We decide to give Special Mentions to the one minute pieces Six Mothers (Candice Vallatin, España, 0:01:00), Carriage Return (Fenia Kotsopoulou & Daz Disley , Reino Unido, 0:01:00) y Go! (Katariina Räty, Finlandia, 0:01:00).
In these pieces we conceptually value their ideas, their timing montage, the quality and content of their images. Also, the narrative synthesis that they accomplish in its short duration. The power and the closures with a certain circularity make each of these pieces a revelation in their proposals.
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THIS DANCE HAS NO END (2018)
Jury prize
JURY PRIZE at the Dance On Screen Festival in Graz (2019) (FOURTH EDITION)
category: screendance
Jury: Sebastian Höglinger, Liz King, Sarah Möller
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THIS DANCE HAS NO END (2018)
JURY AWARD/PRIZE
JURY AWARD at the RIFF; R.E.D. International Film Festival 2019 (FOURTH EDITION)
category: screendance
Jury: Ella Fiskum, RIFF director (NO); Susana Temperley, specialist in Art Critic and Divulgation (AR); Yolanda M. Guadarrama, RIFF Curator (MX).
THIS DANCE HAS NO END (2018)
1st NEWCOMERAS AWARD
1st prize at the Internation Screendance Festival in Freiburg (2019) (FIRST EDITION)
category: international
Jury: Dr. Claudia Kappenberg, Dr. Blas Payri, Bettina Földesi,
THIS DANCE HAS NO END (2018)
1st Prize
1st prize at the MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO FESTIVAL IN MEXICO (SEVENTH EDITION)
category: International Screendance Award MOVIMIENTO EN MOVIMIENTO
Jury: Anna Macdonald, Alessandra Pisu, and a vote by Movimiento en Movimiento
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The most outstanding of this piece is its strength, there is a deep feeling that is transmitted from the body in movement to the viewer of the audiovisual work, something that manages to be transmitted. It creates a perceptive atmosphere, and a great intensity with simple but very well directed audiovisual elements. It is interesting how the camera follows the body in its ceremonial dance. It is an exercise where the living remembers the dead, dancing with them and for them, transforming themselves into the memories, getting fused with them, and, in spite of being a feminine being, she becomes a masculine being. It is a beautiful and moving film.
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website: https://movenmovenglish.wordpress.com/movimiento-en-movimiento-7-awards/
CARRIAGE RETURN (2017)
2nd Prize/Award
2nd Prize and Cinema Prize at the 9th International CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES Competition in Switzerland
category: one munute videodance
Jury: Kristina Köhler (Zurich University), Eva Martinez (Sadler’s Wells, London) and Claudia Rosiny (Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern)
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websiteL https://www.choreooo.org/en/competition/awardees-2015-2017.html
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MY BODY IS (2017)
JURY AWARD
JURY AWARD at the Festival Do Minuto (One Minute Festival) in Brasil 2017
category: Biography, Autobiography and Character
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WAITING ON THE DOORBEL (2017)
JURY AWARD
JURY AWARD at the Festival Do Minuto (One Minute Festival) in Brasil 2017
category: FREE THEME NOVEMBER - HABITAT
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IN-NER SPACE REVISITED (2013)
3rd PRIZE
3rd Prize at WIHTOUT WORDS FILM FESTIVAL in Marseille 2015
category: Time distortions
Jury: Victoria Ilyushkina (Artist and curator, Russia), Georgina Lewis and William Tremblay (COLLISIONcollective, Boston, USA), Michiko Saiki (WWFF2014 1st prize, Japan), Fran Lejeune (Artist and researcher, France), Jaime Rguez (ACTIVA, Oviedo, Spain)