GUNILLA JOSEPHSON
Jury member Prism Prize Video Artist
Who are you? In this context a Swedish born Canadian video artist www.gunillajosephson.com
What do you do ? What are your career highlights?
With my company of 1 AHEDDAFILM I write, shoot, create sound, and edit my video [art], often collaborating with other professionals in my field. Some of my career highlights are being rewarded the Festival Prize at the Oberhausen Shortfilm Festival in Germany for HELLO INGMAR, a digital short film about my relationship to Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, and being awarded the Canada Council Artist Studio in Paris, the Nordic Arts Council Studio in Bergen, Norway and in Rome. My work has appeared at Museé D’art Moderne, Montreal, at Winnipeg Art Gallery, at the Sydney Film Festival in Australia, LUX Cinema in London, at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, at Kino Xenix in Zurich, Gallery Kuumola in Helsinki, and more.
What makes a good music video? What stood out about your picks?
Musical and artistic vision and inventiveness, combined with a huge amount of artistic integrity and professionalism. The videos I chose were to my mind in that vein. For my choices I let my eyes, ears and heart [rate?..] guide me. Oh, and my mouth, since art work that makes you hungry is good art, from the drawings of DaVinci, Björk’s music and Martin Creed’s water colour stripes.
The Prism Prize is a national arts prize awarded to the best Canadian music video of the year. www.prismprize.com
Honouring the artistry of modern music videos in Canada, the Prism Prize celebrates and showcases music video art. A jury of music, broadcast, film and video art professionals from across Canada will vote for the best videos of the year. A list of 10 contenders will be announced on February 18, 2014 and a winner will be determined after a second round of jury voting.