Open Arts faculty member Donna Cameron’s new short sound film, “The Whole in Parts” (2021) has received the Rome Prisma Award from the Rome International Film Festival. The film is Camerons’s third collaborative work with maestro Fredrick Kaufman (www.fredrickkaufman.com), internationally acclaimed composer and founder/director emeritus of the Florida International University’s music program.
The new Cameron-Kaufman collaboration features a performance by internationally acclaimed pianist Marta Brankovich (blackswanofpiano.com/), rare footage from Cameron’s cinematic paper emulsion MoMA portfolio (https://www.moma.org/search/?query=donna+cameron), haiku by poet PE Sloan and post-production by the Chicago-based teams of G-Media and Axiom Flame. The film uses a contemporary jazz methodology in its production and has won numerous awards since its August 2021 release, screening in sixteen international film festivals, including the London International Film Festival: Winner, Best Production Design; the New Age Cinemas & Scripts International Film Festival (India): Winner, Best Short of the Season; the Tokyo International Film Festival,: Winner: Special Mention; the Black Panther International Film Festival, Best Experimental Short; the Paris Lift-off International Festival: Trendsetter Shorts. More screenings and showcase programming are forthcoming.
The social media version of the film is public at https://youtu.be/984EgNAlWWA
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