1.5° Film Challenge 2022 Trophies

1.5° Film Challenge Trophy (2021)

For the new round of the 1.5° Film Challenge, we have invited back Deniz Uster to make trophies for our award-winning filmmakers. Last year, her glorious trophy design featured otherworldly miniature landscapes made from up-cycled camera lenses, encapsulated within a glass dome. Deniz explained to us how she envisioned the trophies:

“They composed an alternate world filmmakers inhabit, where discarded lenses once functioned to ‘look through’ and ‘record through’, were taken over by Earth, and became monolithic towers to look out, to expand.”

The New 1.5° Film Challenge Trophies (2022)

This time around she has a new design, inspired by vintage cameras and made from naturally sourced or recycled materials. These remarkable miniature camera eco-trophies will be awarded to successful filmmakers during our 1.5° Film Challenge Screenings throughout June 2022 to mark World Environment Day on 5th June 2022.

Watch the video below to learn the detailed, ecological processes behind this project:

 

(The Making of the Eco-Trophies Transcript)

About Deniz:

Deniz Uster is the artist behind O T H E R S C A P E S, a design brand through which she creates miniature narratives and spaces of speculative fiction within wearable art pieces. She’s also a filmmaker whose practice is rooted in anthropological, ecological and ethnographic research, interwoven with science fiction. A fictional shift in nature, within her narratives, forms the foundation for alternative social structures, cultures, economic systems, futures and histories. Deniz’s work and research investigate the possibility of an alternative temporality, which contests the linear character of time conception, hence horizontal chronology is approached as a conservative framework. 

Find her on Instagram: @otherscapes.studio

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