WINNERS \u2014 3RD EDITION | INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL<\/title>\n\n \n <link rel=\"preconnect\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\" crossorigin>\n <link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@300;400;500;600&display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n\n <style>\n :root{\n --bg:#ffffff;\n --fg:#0b0b0c;\n --muted:#6b6f76;\n --card:#f6f7f8;\n --accent:#cc0000;\n --maxw: 1100px;\n --photo-maxw: 420px; \/* controls desktop winner-photo width *\/\n --photo-maxh: 360px; \/* controls desktop winner-photo height *\/\n }\n @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark){\n :root{\n --bg:#0b0b0c;\n --fg:#f1f3f6;\n --muted:#9aa0a8;\n --card:#15161a;\n }\n }\n\n html,body{height:100%}\n body{\n margin:0;\n background:var(--bg);\n color:var(--fg);\n font-family:\"Montserrat\", system-ui, -apple-system, Segoe UI, Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", Arial, sans-serif;\n line-height:1.65;\n -webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;\n -moz-osx-font-smoothing:grayscale;\n }\n\n .wrap{\n max-width:var(--maxw);\n margin:40px auto 80px;\n padding:0 20px;\n }\n\n \/* Intro *\/\n .intro{\n background:var(--card);\n border-radius:18px;\n padding:24px;\n box-shadow:0 10px 28px rgba(0,0,0,.06);\n margin-bottom:40px;\n }\n .intro h1{\n margin:0 0 12px;\n font-size: clamp(42px, 7.2vw, 72px) !important; \/* BIGGER title per GMF style *\/\n font-weight:400 !important; \/* NORMAL (not bold) *\/\n text-transform: uppercase !important; \/* CAPITALS *\/\n letter-spacing:1.6px !important; \/* festival style *\/\n line-height:1.12 !important;\n }\n .intro-hero{\n margin: 6px 0 16px;\n border-radius: 14px;\n overflow: hidden;\n box-shadow: 0 8px 22px rgba(0,0,0,.06);\n background: #000;\n }\n .intro-hero img{\n display:block;\n width:100%;\n height:auto;\n }\n .dateline{\n color:var(--muted);\n font-size:14px;\n margin: 0 0 10px;\n text-transform: uppercase;\n letter-spacing:.12em;\n }\n\n \/* Category titles (uppercase, not bold, bigger) *\/\n .category{\n margin:42px 0 16px;\n font-size: clamp(22px, 3.2vw, 28px);\n text-transform: uppercase;\n letter-spacing:1.6px;\n font-weight:400;\n color:var(--fg);\n }\n\n \/* Winner block *\/\n .winner{ margin-bottom:36px; }\n\n .first-part{\n display:grid;\n grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; \/* text + photo columns *\/\n gap:22px;\n align-items:start;\n }\n .first-part.image-left .photo{order:0}\n .first-part.image-left .text{order:1}\n .first-part.image-right .text{order:0}\n .first-part.image-right .photo{order:1}\n\n .photo{\n background:var(--card);\n border-radius:16px;\n overflow:hidden; \/* gentle cropping if taller than max-height *\/\n box-shadow:0 8px 22px rgba(0,0,0,.06);\n max-width: var(--photo-maxw); \/* smaller than 50% *\/\n max-height: var(--photo-maxh);\n justify-self: center;\n align-self: start;\n width: 100%;\n }\n .photo img{\n display:block;\n width:100%;\n height:auto;\n }\n\n .text p{ margin:0; }\n\n .artist{\n text-transform: uppercase; \/* AUTHOR NAMES IN CAPITALS *\/\n letter-spacing:.5px;\n }\n\n .second-part{ margin-top:14px; }\n\n \/* Read more link *\/\n .read-more{\n display:inline-block;\n margin-top:10px;\n font-size:14px;\n letter-spacing:.04em;\n text-decoration:none;\n color:var(--accent);\n border:1px solid rgba(204,0,0,.25);\n padding:8px 12px;\n border-radius:999px;\n transition: transform .15s ease, background .15s ease;\n }\n .read-more:hover{\n transform: translateY(-1px);\n background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--accent) 8%, transparent);\n }\n\n \/* Divider between winners *\/\n .divider{\n height:1px;\n background:linear-gradient(90deg, transparent, rgba(127,127,127,.25), transparent);\n margin:30px 0 20px;\n }\n\n \/* Responsive *\/\n @media (max-width: 980px){\n :root{\n --photo-maxw: 360px;\n --photo-maxh: 320px;\n }\n }\n @media (max-width: 820px){\n .first-part{ grid-template-columns: 1fr; } \/* stack on mobile *\/\n .photo{\n max-width: 100%;\n max-height: none;\n }\n }\n\n \/* Print *\/\n @media print{\n .intro{ box-shadow:none; }\n .photo{ box-shadow:none; }\n a[href]::after{ content:\"\"; }\n }\n <\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n\n \n <section class=\"intro\">\n <h1>Winners of Gjon Mili IVAF <\/h1>\n\n \n <figure class=\"intro-hero\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-01-at-10.22.40-PM.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"Highlights from the 3rd Edition of the International Video Art Festival\">\n <\/figure>\n\n <div class=\"dateline\">Kor\u00e7a \/ Dh\u00ebrmi \/ Manhattan \u2013 2025<\/div>\n <p>\n The International Video Art Festival proudly announced the winners of its 3rd edition, held across three unique cultural landscapes: Kor\u00e7a, Dh\u00ebrmi, and Manhattan. This year\u2019s festival highlighted artists whose works redefine the language of moving image, blending experimental cinema, animation, performance, VR, and documentary.\n <\/p>\n <p>\n The 2025 edition celebrated diversity not only in artistic media but also in geographical and cultural perspectives, bringing together voices from the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Iran\/UK, and Canada. Each of the winning works challenged audiences to confront urgent contemporary realities, while also expanding the possibilities of visual storytelling.\n <\/p>\n <\/section>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Best Video Art & Experimental<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-right\">\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Eleni Mylonas<\/span> (United States) \u2013 <em>SeaMonster II<\/em> (00:14:19)<\/strong><br>\n Eleni Mylonas, a multidisciplinary artist based in both New York and Athens, was awarded Best Video Art & Experimental. A Fulbright scholar, she holds a Master\u2019s degree from Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and a degree in photography from the University of London. Throughout her career, Mylonas has exhibited widely, from MoMA PS1 in New York to the Benaki Museum in Athens, as well as galleries in Munich and international foundations in New York.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eleni-mylonas-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"ELENI MYLONAS \u2014 SeaMonster II (Best Video Art & Experimental)\">\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n Her winning work, <em>SeaMonster II<\/em>, continues her acclaimed <em>SeaMonster<\/em> series. The project uses found objects collected along the shores of Aegina\u2014nets, plastics, and discarded fragments of human life\u2014which are transformed into elements of ritual and performance. In this way, Mylonas turns environmental debris into a poetic testimony on the relationship between humanity and the natural world. The piece follows the first iteration, <em>SeaMonster Monk<\/em>, presented at the Athens Art Fair (2019) and later at WhiteBox NYC (2023).\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/mylonos\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Best Animation Film<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-left\">\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aria-wolf-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"ARIA WOLF \u2014 Lichtung (Best Animation Film)\">\n <\/figure>\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Aria Wolf<\/span> (Germany) \u2013 <em>Lichtung<\/em> (00:15:00)<\/strong><br>\n German artist Aria Wolf was recognized with the Best Animation Film award for her VR project <em>Lichtung<\/em>. Born in 1996, Wolf studied Transmedia Games Directing at the Animation Institute of the Filmakademie Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg and holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Audiovisual Media from Media University Stuttgart. Her earlier work includes the domestic violence prevention short <em>YASEMIN<\/em> (2021), the documentary <em>ROSA<\/em> (2021), and the atmospheric game experience <em>Sanguine<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n Her latest project, <em>Lichtung<\/em>, offers audiences an immersive experience: a luminous world lying dormant until the viewer enters. As one explores its surroundings, the environment slowly awakens, revealing light and hidden wonders. Recently selected for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in the VR category, <em>Lichtung<\/em> exemplifies the evolving potential of animation when fused with virtual reality technologies.\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/aria-wolf-wins-best-animation-film-with-lichtung\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Best Short Film<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-right\">\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Bea de Visser<\/span> (Netherlands) \u2013 <em>No horses on Mars<\/em> (00:14:54)<\/strong><br>\n Dutch filmmaker and artist Bea de Visser was honored with the Best Short Film award for her work <em>No horses on Mars<\/em>. De Visser began her career in the early 1980s as a sound and performance artist in clubs and art spaces. She is recognized internationally for her film art, installation work, and sound performances, blending digital media with painterly, poetic storytelling. She also leads the independent studio Anotherfilm, lectures at the University of the Arts, and mentors young scenography students, while her work features in international collections and festivals worldwide.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bea-de-visser-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"BEA DE VISSER \u2014 No horses on Mars (Best Short Film)\">\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n <em>No horses on Mars<\/em> unfolds as a road film, but from a unique perspective: that of a horse. The narrative introduces viewers to the galloping mind of domesticated horses, reflecting on humanity\u2019s attempts to measure, record, and know them as objects. Yet, through its cinematic language, the film suggests glimpses of individuality and recognition beyond domestication, questioning the relationship between human perception and the natural world.\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/bea-de-visser-wins-best-short-film-with-no-horses-on-mars\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Best Short Documentary<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-left\">\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/parham-ghalamdar-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"PARHAM GHALAMDAR \u2014 The Sight is a Wound (Best Short Documentary)\">\n <\/figure>\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Parham Ghalamdar<\/span> (Iran\/UK) \u2013 <em>The Sight is a Wound<\/em> (00:06:48)<\/strong><br>\n The Best Short Documentary award went to Parham Ghalamdar, an Iranian-born, UK-based multidisciplinary artist. Ghalamdar\u2019s practice combines painting, film, and writing to explore speculative worlds where history, mythology, and futurism collapse into each other. He has received the UK New Artists Bursary (2023), an ACE Project Grant, and several innovative grants, with his work also included in the UK Government Art Collection.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n His awarded work, <em>The Sight is a Wound<\/em>, is a haunting video-poem reflecting on the limits of image-making in the face of modern atrocity. In response to the genocide in Gaza, Ghalamdar set fire to over 50 of his own paintings\u2014once exhibited in prestigious shows\u2014turning them into ashes. This visceral act of destruction becomes a meditation on silence, despair, and the collapse of visual language in an age of digital excess and emotional numbness. The work is not a call to action, but an elegy for images themselves, questioning what remains when the visual world fails us.\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/parham-ghalamdar-wins-best-short-documentary-with-the-sight-is-a-wound\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Audience Choice Award<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-right\">\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Brian R Donnelly<\/span> (Canada) \u2013 <em>Goin\u2019 Down The Road<\/em> (00:04:11)<\/strong><br>\n The Audience Choice Award was presented to Canadian artist Brian R Donnelly for his project <em>Goin\u2019 Down The Road<\/em>. Based in Toronto and holding a BFA in Painting from OCAD University, Donnelly has exhibited internationally since 2007 and began experimenting with video-based work in 2017. His practice often addresses themes of identity and distortion, building layered narratives from both painting and moving image.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/brian-r-donnelly-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"BRIAN R DONNELLY \u2014 Goin\u2019 Down The Road (Audience Choice Award)\">\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n <em>Goin\u2019 Down The Road<\/em> is an ongoing project that reimagines Toronto through popular film fragments, archival materials, and contemporary wide-angle video. By layering cinematic inconsistencies, dialogue snippets, and fractured sequences, Donnelly creates a portrait of the city as both real and fictional. The work forms a document of Toronto\u2019s cultural and urban evolution, distilling truth from an ever-growing archive of memory and make-believe.\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/brian-r-donnelly-wins-audience-choice-award-with-goin-down-the-road\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <section class=\"winner\">\n <p><strong class=\"artist\">A PLATFORM FOR BOLD NEW VOICES<\/strong><br>\n This year\u2019s International Video Art Festival reaffirmed its role as a global stage for artists who push boundaries and challenge audiences with daring works. From environmental performance to immersive VR animation, from poetic road films to video-poems confronting atrocity, and fractured urban portraits, the 2025 award winners demonstrate the vitality of video art as one of the most powerful languages of our time.\n <\/p>\n <\/section>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNERS \u2014 3RD EDITION | INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL Winners of Gjon Mili IVAF Kor\u00e7a \/ Dh\u00ebrmi \/ Manhattan \u2013 2025 The International Video Art Festival proudly announced the winners of its 3rd edition, held across three unique cultural landscapes: Kor\u00e7a, Dh\u00ebrmi, and Manhattan. 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} \/* stack on mobile *\/\n .photo{\n max-width: 100%;\n max-height: none;\n }\n }\n\n \/* Print *\/\n @media print{\n .intro{ box-shadow:none; }\n .photo{ box-shadow:none; }\n a[href]::after{ content:\"\"; }\n }\n <\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body>\n <div class=\"wrap\">\n\n \n <section class=\"intro\">\n <h1>Winners of Gjon Mili IVAF <\/h1>\n\n \n <figure class=\"intro-hero\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-01-at-10.22.40-PM.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"Highlights from the 3rd Edition of the International Video Art Festival\">\n <\/figure>\n\n <div class=\"dateline\">Kor\u00e7a \/ Dh\u00ebrmi \/ Manhattan \u2013 2025<\/div>\n <p>\n The International Video Art Festival proudly announced the winners of its 3rd edition, held across three unique cultural landscapes: Kor\u00e7a, Dh\u00ebrmi, and Manhattan. This year\u2019s festival highlighted artists whose works redefine the language of moving image, blending experimental cinema, animation, performance, VR, and documentary.\n <\/p>\n <p>\n The 2025 edition celebrated diversity not only in artistic media but also in geographical and cultural perspectives, bringing together voices from the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Iran\/UK, and Canada. Each of the winning works challenged audiences to confront urgent contemporary realities, while also expanding the possibilities of visual storytelling.\n <\/p>\n <\/section>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Best Video Art & Experimental<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-right\">\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Eleni Mylonas<\/span> (United States) \u2013 <em>SeaMonster II<\/em> (00:14:19)<\/strong><br>\n Eleni Mylonas, a multidisciplinary artist based in both New York and Athens, was awarded Best Video Art & Experimental. A Fulbright scholar, she holds a Master\u2019s degree from Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and a degree in photography from the University of London. Throughout her career, Mylonas has exhibited widely, from MoMA PS1 in New York to the Benaki Museum in Athens, as well as galleries in Munich and international foundations in New York.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/eleni-mylonas-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"ELENI MYLONAS \u2014 SeaMonster II (Best Video Art & Experimental)\">\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n Her winning work, <em>SeaMonster II<\/em>, continues her acclaimed <em>SeaMonster<\/em> series. The project uses found objects collected along the shores of Aegina\u2014nets, plastics, and discarded fragments of human life\u2014which are transformed into elements of ritual and performance. In this way, Mylonas turns environmental debris into a poetic testimony on the relationship between humanity and the natural world. The piece follows the first iteration, <em>SeaMonster Monk<\/em>, presented at the Athens Art Fair (2019) and later at WhiteBox NYC (2023).\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/mylonos\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Best Animation Film<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-left\">\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aria-wolf-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"ARIA WOLF \u2014 Lichtung (Best Animation Film)\">\n <\/figure>\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Aria Wolf<\/span> (Germany) \u2013 <em>Lichtung<\/em> (00:15:00)<\/strong><br>\n German artist Aria Wolf was recognized with the Best Animation Film award for her VR project <em>Lichtung<\/em>. Born in 1996, Wolf studied Transmedia Games Directing at the Animation Institute of the Filmakademie Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg and holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Audiovisual Media from Media University Stuttgart. Her earlier work includes the domestic violence prevention short <em>YASEMIN<\/em> (2021), the documentary <em>ROSA<\/em> (2021), and the atmospheric game experience <em>Sanguine<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n Her latest project, <em>Lichtung<\/em>, offers audiences an immersive experience: a luminous world lying dormant until the viewer enters. As one explores its surroundings, the environment slowly awakens, revealing light and hidden wonders. Recently selected for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in the VR category, <em>Lichtung<\/em> exemplifies the evolving potential of animation when fused with virtual reality technologies.\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/aria-wolf-wins-best-animation-film-with-lichtung\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Best Short Film<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-right\">\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Bea de Visser<\/span> (Netherlands) \u2013 <em>No horses on Mars<\/em> (00:14:54)<\/strong><br>\n Dutch filmmaker and artist Bea de Visser was honored with the Best Short Film award for her work <em>No horses on Mars<\/em>. De Visser began her career in the early 1980s as a sound and performance artist in clubs and art spaces. She is recognized internationally for her film art, installation work, and sound performances, blending digital media with painterly, poetic storytelling. She also leads the independent studio Anotherfilm, lectures at the University of the Arts, and mentors young scenography students, while her work features in international collections and festivals worldwide.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bea-de-visser-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"BEA DE VISSER \u2014 No horses on Mars (Best Short Film)\">\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n <em>No horses on Mars<\/em> unfolds as a road film, but from a unique perspective: that of a horse. The narrative introduces viewers to the galloping mind of domesticated horses, reflecting on humanity\u2019s attempts to measure, record, and know them as objects. Yet, through its cinematic language, the film suggests glimpses of individuality and recognition beyond domestication, questioning the relationship between human perception and the natural world.\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/bea-de-visser-wins-best-short-film-with-no-horses-on-mars\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Best Short Documentary<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-left\">\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/parham-ghalamdar-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"PARHAM GHALAMDAR \u2014 The Sight is a Wound (Best Short Documentary)\">\n <\/figure>\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Parham Ghalamdar<\/span> (Iran\/UK) \u2013 <em>The Sight is a Wound<\/em> (00:06:48)<\/strong><br>\n The Best Short Documentary award went to Parham Ghalamdar, an Iranian-born, UK-based multidisciplinary artist. Ghalamdar\u2019s practice combines painting, film, and writing to explore speculative worlds where history, mythology, and futurism collapse into each other. He has received the UK New Artists Bursary (2023), an ACE Project Grant, and several innovative grants, with his work also included in the UK Government Art Collection.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n His awarded work, <em>The Sight is a Wound<\/em>, is a haunting video-poem reflecting on the limits of image-making in the face of modern atrocity. In response to the genocide in Gaza, Ghalamdar set fire to over 50 of his own paintings\u2014once exhibited in prestigious shows\u2014turning them into ashes. This visceral act of destruction becomes a meditation on silence, despair, and the collapse of visual language in an age of digital excess and emotional numbness. The work is not a call to action, but an elegy for images themselves, questioning what remains when the visual world fails us.\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/parham-ghalamdar-wins-best-short-documentary-with-the-sight-is-a-wound\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <h2 class=\"category\">Audience Choice Award<\/h2>\n <section class=\"winner\">\n <div class=\"first-part image-right\">\n <div class=\"text\">\n <p><strong><span class=\"artist\">Brian R Donnelly<\/span> (Canada) \u2013 <em>Goin\u2019 Down The Road<\/em> (00:04:11)<\/strong><br>\n The Audience Choice Award was presented to Canadian artist Brian R Donnelly for his project <em>Goin\u2019 Down The Road<\/em>. Based in Toronto and holding a BFA in Painting from OCAD University, Donnelly has exhibited internationally since 2007 and began experimenting with video-based work in 2017. His practice often addresses themes of identity and distortion, building layered narratives from both painting and moving image.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <figure class=\"photo\">\n <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/brian-r-donnelly-100.jpg.png?w=1170&ssl=1\"\n alt=\"BRIAN R DONNELLY \u2014 Goin\u2019 Down The Road (Audience Choice Award)\">\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"second-part\">\n <p>\n <em>Goin\u2019 Down The Road<\/em> is an ongoing project that reimagines Toronto through popular film fragments, archival materials, and contemporary wide-angle video. By layering cinematic inconsistencies, dialogue snippets, and fractured sequences, Donnelly creates a portrait of the city as both real and fictional. The work forms a document of Toronto\u2019s cultural and urban evolution, distilling truth from an ever-growing archive of memory and make-believe.\n <\/p>\n <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gjonmili-ivaf.com\/index.php\/brian-r-donnelly-wins-audience-choice-award-with-goin-down-the-road\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n \n <section class=\"winner\">\n <p><strong class=\"artist\">A PLATFORM FOR BOLD NEW VOICES<\/strong><br>\n This year\u2019s International Video Art Festival reaffirmed its role as a global stage for artists who push boundaries and challenge audiences with daring works. From environmental performance to immersive VR animation, from poetic road films to video-poems confronting atrocity, and fractured urban portraits, the 2025 award winners demonstrate the vitality of video art as one of the most powerful languages of our time.\n <\/p>\n <\/section>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNERS \u2014 3RD EDITION | INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL Winners of Gjon Mili IVAF Kor\u00e7a \/ Dh\u00ebrmi \/ Manhattan \u2013 2025 The International Video Art Festival proudly announced the winners of its 3rd edition, held across three unique cultural landscapes: Kor\u00e7a, Dh\u00ebrmi, and Manhattan. 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