Congratulations to Lawrence Lek for winning the 2015 Tenderflix prize with his piece, Unreal Estate (The Royal Academy is Yours).
Tenderflix is an international film and video competition open to all moving image works. In its 8th year in 2015 the theme for submitting to Tenderflix was Futures.The following shortlisted 10 films were shown as part of a public screening at the ICA in London, 24 October 2015, and the first prize of £500 was announced at the same time.
Jury
video collector and foundation director Robert D. Bielecki
producer and Tigerlily Films co-managing director Natasha Dack
artist David Panos
artist Katarina Zdjelar
curator of digital at Serpentine Gallery, Ben Vickers
and Etan Ilfeld, founder of Tenderpixel.
Finalists
Lawrence Lek, Unreal Estate (The Royal Academy is Yours)
Rustan Söderling, Endless September
Mariken Kramer, Goddess & Concubine
Zhexi Zhang, Lena
Jan Manski, Primal Elements
Ian Giles, On the Way to Language
Feiko Beckers, A conversation is a risk to lose your own opinion
Kirsty Hendry, A Presumed Unity
Natalie Welsh, Waiting for the Gods
Louisa Martin, Lineaments (The Lighthouse #4)