Winners from the Teaser Remix Experience
After a week of thorough discussions, we now have the list of winners of the Teaser Remix Experience. The election has been so difficult that we ended up creating a special category, to award even more remixes. But we'll tell you all about it below.
Before announcing the winners, let's remember what were the prizes. The winner will get a LOMO L-CA+, meanwhile for the second and third places and the 8 áccesits, they will received a LOMO OKTOMAT. All of the winners, except the 8 áccesits, will have a month subscription to The Auteurs and a special Riot Cinema pack.
Without further ado, the names of the winners are:
First prize goes to Robert Pratten, becuse his perfect remix from beginning to end, on its atmosphere, as well as the image treatment process, as well as the game about the memory, las lomos and everything else. It is the mind of the Cosmonaut in images. Inspiring.
On second place we have Miriam Mira remix. This teaser is, without a doubt, the best that managed to capture the essence of the movie beyond images, using fragments from the first draft of the script and it's own text and giving it an absolute radical spin to the general aesthetic seen on the totality of all the teasers. It is a jump into the void, an act of love.
Edgar Lledó takes the third place. His teaser is, maybe, the one close enough to the aesthetics of the movie. Its content, promising and well rounded. The treatment of the image is by far the best we have seen.
First prize: Robert Pratten
Second Prize: Miriam Mira
Third Prize: Edgar Lledó
We go on now to enumerate the eight áccesits.
Jack Shadow. We have been flabbergasted by the backwards take of the cosmonaut, in which his eyes seem completely white.
Tom Schestak. We think this is a very bold teaser. It's first 20 seconds is a work of art, playing with the thunderous sound as he removes his helmet . Because of its experimentalism, a worthy teaser remix.
Santiago Fernández. A pretty disturbing teaser. The take of the cosmonaut "flying" backwards seeming like it was been absorbed has our 5 start rating.
Alfonso Martínez. The use of interpose still film frames is superb. Besides, the sound, the takes and music make a good tight teaser remix.
Visiophone. Experimentalism and lomos, what more can you ask for?
Óscar Rabasa. This may pretty well be the most classic of them all. It's a very "American" movie feel to it, but on a closer look with all that written text, it managed to put our hairs on end. It captured pretty well the spirit of the film.
Ernesto Valiente. A unique atmosphere through the use of still film frames and inverted takes. The music is another point in favor.
Antonio Jarreta. Because it's different, epic and for being ambitious.
We finished the list of winners with three additional award badges, creating it's own new category. This new category is for all those remix teasers that seem more like a video clip than a teaser trailer. All three of them, will be given a T-Shirt with the logo of the hummingbird and a copy of Poetic for cosmonauts, the book that inspired the film script.
Gil McRipley. What can we say about this teaser? It's was love at first sight. Humming the song under our breath while we worked. We have seen it a million times and showed it to all our friends.
Isaac Rupérez. Few times have a song moved us so much, and it's exceptional use of the images with the music.
Alberto Romo. For it's amazing work put into this "video clip", worthy of winning this award, but also, for using a format different from that being posted online, adjusting the images to a superb ratio of 2:35, making it worthy of its award.
The only thing left is to congratulate all of the winners and thank all of those who participated in the contest. We also take this opportunity to thank those who made possible the original teaser trailer, to Cumie, for letting use her song and her voice; to Jonathan Mellor, who dub the English voice over; to Alexey Shurupov, who dub the disturbing Russian voice and to the rest of the people who participated in the creation of the teaser: Carlos Martínez-Abarca, Rubén Durán, Daniel Torrelló, Ezequiel Romero, Angel Trancón, Juan Cabrera, Miki Ávila, Edward Artemyev, Luz Nicolás, Carola Rodríguez, Javier Serrano, Margarita Mansilla y Silvia Benito).
We leave you with a few words from the film director of the movie.
As the film director, seeing each of the 78 teaser presented continuously to the contest has been a wide opening experience. Not only have they made me realize the sheer magnitude of this project and of the potential of what we are putting forward. But also being deeply moved. It made my hair stand on end thinking of all the people that played, giving a new interpretation to the images and on the multiples ways it transform the teaser.
And not only that. Also, seeing them as a whole, I have learnt more about cinema than any other class about editing or realization. This is a magnificent exercise to see how a piece of work can change the view of the creator. How you can go from one edge to the other, from the experimental to the classic Hollywood. From the contemplative to the emotive.
I strongly urge everybody to download them all and give yourself the pleasure to learn. This have has been to me, a wide opening experience.
All that there is left for me to do is to give a big THANK YOU, for making of this movie a bit more real and beautiful than yesterday's dream.
Nicolás Alcalá
This goes to our Basque producers: look for us on tomorrow's El País!
