Premio Combat Prize

Sergei Sviatchenko + Noriko Okaku
Architect and artist SERGEI SVIATCHENKO (Denmark) and media artist NORIKO OKAKU (UK/Japan) are co-directing a short film dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky´s film MIRROR.
The idea was to create the connections of fragments between private, unconscious and existence and to show how important those flashes of feelings, which give us all nourishment of our unified imagery. Each fragment of the film, united rhythmically, acquires the quality of the composition at a final climax. The climax occurs after the collision of internal and external spaces, light and shadow, and while overcoming obstacles. These collisions and overcomes are a sensual base of catharsis.
Sergei Sviatchenko - www.sviatchenko.dk
1952 / Born in Kharkov, Ukraine.
1990- /Lives and works in Denmark.
Awards
2013: “MIRROR BY MIRROR”, Winner of Lucca Film Festival, Italy. 2012: Honorable Mention in Fine Art – Collage category for the winning entry “LINELESS.” International Photography Awards (IPA), Los Angeles, USA.
2010: CAPTURE The Fade, Overall winner,
Ampersand Magazine Photography Award, Sydney, Australia. 2009: Honorable Mention in Fine Art – Collage category for the winning entry “LESS.” International Photography Awards (IPA), Los Angeles, USA. 2007: D&AD Yellow Pencil Award Winner, London, England.
2004: The 13th Seoul Space International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea. 2001: Ljubljana/2nd World Festival of Art on Paper, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Noriko Okaku - www.norikookaku.com
1979 / Born in Kyoto, Japan.
2009- / Lives and works in London, UK
Awards
2013: “MIRROR BY MIRROR”, Winner of Lucca Film Festival, Italy. 2011: Best Music Video Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival. 2010: Best Audiovisual Performance, International Videofestival Bochum, Germany 2003 Beck’s Futures Student Prize, ICA, UK
Filmography of Sergei and Okaku
- MIRROR BY MIRROR / HD video / 14:41 (2013)
2013: Premiered at the special program at International Andrei Tarkovsky Film Festival Zerkalo
2013: “MIRROR BY MIRROR”, Winner of Lucca Film Festival, Italy