Artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers has been awarded the second EYE Art and Film Prize of £25,000 to fund the making of new work. The award was set up as a collaboration between the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, and the Paddy and Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund, to highlight the relationship between contemporary art and film.
This year’s jury included: Sandra den Hamer (CEO EYE), Stuart Comer (chief curator for media and performance art, MoMA, New York), Isaac Julien (artist/director), Martijn Sanders (advisor and art collector), Olivia Stewart (trustee PJLF Arts Fund/producer/screenwriter), Béla Tarr (screenwriter/director) and the late artist and film director Chantal Akerman (1950–2015).
8 April 2016.
