{"id":4394,"date":"2025-10-06T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simultan.org\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:20:11","slug":"simultan-2025-moving-image-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simultan.org\/en\/simultan-2025-moving-image-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"SIMULTAN 2025 – video & moving image awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


The 20th edition of the SIMULTAN Festival was taking place between 1-12 Oct 2025, in Timi\u0219oara, continuing its exploration of the relationship between art, technology and society, through different artistic methods and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s theme, RE:MEDIATE<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/em>, reflects not only on the transformations brought about by mass media and technology, but also on how we might reframe, reconfigure, or reconcile broader aspects of our current reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selection committee, consisting of Florin F\u0103ra, Marina Oprea, Luiza Alecsandru, \u00c9va Kozma, Andreea S\u0103s\u0103ran and Sergiu Sas, has selected 36 video and moving image works for the festival screening program from a total of 441 works received trough the open call<\/a>.
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The 3 works, which through conceptual narrative and visual representation imposed themselves in defining the meaning of RE:MEDIATE<\/em>, are the following:

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Entangled Atlas<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vestige<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whatever Remains Unchanged is Already Dead<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Milan Antic<\/strong> [RS], Vestige<\/em>, 09:57, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a post-Anthropocene landscape, digital avatars\u2014fragments of collective consciousness\u2014gather in a hybrid ritual of transformation. The visual language merges dystopian symbolism, ritual movement, and digital mutations, intertwining the old and the new in an ontological rewriting of reality. Infused with the spirit of Timothy Morton\u2019s dark ecology, Vestige remains evocative and open-ended, a trace of one epoch transfigured into a new form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diana Gheorghiu<\/strong> [RO\/NL], Whatever Remains Unchanged is Already Dead<\/em>, 09:08, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Whatever Remains Unchanged Is Already Dead’ is a film that explores how class and capitalism exert control over our bodies. An all-knowing machine, the MRI, determines who gets to live or die, projecting a hypnotic pull: owning knowledge of our health is owning the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inferstudio<\/strong> (Bethany Edgoose, Nathan Su, Sarah Su) [AU], Entangled Atlas<\/em>, 06:52, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Entangled Atlas\u2019 is a diptych animated short film, which presents an allegorical world where spaces of everyday human life are filled with real-time projections of non-human landscapes. It is a call for us to form deeper and long-lasting relationships with non-human kin. The world imagined is underpinned by an attitude of simultaneously watching over and protecting our only Earth with great attention and care, whilst also treading lightly and attempting to ‘leave no trace’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Find out the complete list of the participating artists of the screening program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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