The Salzburger Kunstverein announces the inaugural call for the 2021 Sunset Kino Award for excellence in contemporary film and video. Supported by patrons “Elke & Harald,” the award consists of two 4,000 EUR prizes, and screenings of the winning films at Sunset Kino, a film festival hosted by the Salzburger Kunstverein in the summer of 2021. The award is for professional artists aged 35 and younger working in contemporary film or video. Artists should submit films or videos they have made since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. Submitted work does not have to be thematically related to Covid-19, only produced during this time.
Sunset Kino is Austria’s only outdoor, avant-garde cinema, founded by Séamus Kealy in 2017. Participating artists, programmers & filmmakers to date include Gabriel Abrantes, Stan Douglas, Omer Fast, Anthony Cokes, Nan Goldin, Emily Wardill, Fischli & Weiss, Chris Marker, Ian White, Diagonale Film Festival, The Golden Pixel Collective, Agnieszka Polska, Cameron Jamie, Loretta Fahrenholz, Mika Rottenberg, Michael Snow, Bady Minck, Oisin Byrne & Gary Farrelly, Amalia Ulman, Bruce McDonald, Köken Ergun, Lukas Valenta Rinner, Neil Young & many more.