Mediawave 2009

This year's Mediawave was on from April 25th to May 2nd. Mediawave is a yearly international music and film festival that has its main location in Győr, and plenty of side-locations all over Hungary, as well as venues in Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic and Russia.

Whilst the festival's musical programmes are for joy only, the film sections are competetive, and evaluated by as many as three juries: feature and short film; experimental, documentary and animation; and a general student jury. As a compliment to this year's animation competitors, two films were awarded, one in its own category and another as the best experimental film. Ranked by a British independent animation artist Phil Mulloy, a Bulgarian documentarist Andrey Paounov and a Hungarian filmmaker Péter Mészáros, it was Michaela Copikova's short "About Socks and Love" that was deemed to be the best animated film, and the short animated film The Dress by Jelena Girlin and Mari-Liis Bassovskaja that received the honour of being the best experimental film. As Phil Mulloy put it, the experimentals just weren't that great this year. The good news was that the animations were.

Above is a photo of the animated film that proved more experimental than the experimentals themselves. Below here is the video of the Best Animation laureate "About Socks and Love" from the author's website:

About Socks and Love from Michaela Copikova on Vimeo.