SMIBE Announces Winners of Short Film Competition
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SMIBE (The Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment) recently announced the winning entries of its second international short film competition. Following the call under the theme “Personal Infrastructures,” over two hundred entries from film makers around the world went into the judging process. One winner was selected each for general and student category.

SMIBE welcomed moving image stories that investigate, explore, and entertain our communities about social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues that designers of the built world should be discussing.

First Place General: Ice Carosello
Mattias Löw, Sweden
 

First Place General: Ice Carosello by Mattias Löw - On a frozen river in the Swedish Arctic three men decide to relive their youth by creating an ice carousel and then take it for a ride.


First Place Student: Ames railway corridor
Zijie Cao, Iowa State University, USA
 

First Place Student: Ames railway corridor by Zijie Cao - As the program phase of my studio project, by creating a story, the movie aims to learn how the environment along the railway impacts on the people�s life since Ames was developed along the railway which composes part of life here. According to the understanding, a project will be designed.


The judging panel included Frances Anderton � host of the radio show DnA: Design and Architecture on KCRW, and L.A. editor of Dwell Magazine; Susan West � documentary film producer, In The Realms of the Unreal, directed by Jessica Yu; Andrew Zago � architect and educator, principal at Zago Architecture; John Kaliski � architect and urban designer, principal at Urban Studio and president of AIA Los Angeles; Cliff Garten � artist, public art that interfaces with infrastructure; April Greiman � graphic artist and director of Los Angeles-based design consultancy Made in Space; and John Chase � author, urban designer for the city of West Hollywood, California.

For the complete list of finalists, check the SMIBE website.



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