Samira Elagoz, third year student at the SNDO /  School for New Dance development, has won the The BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER On October 24, 2014.  Samira Elagoz won the  first prize in The international creative competition.

With her very first video project  Four Kings Samira won over the jury and beat out more than 1,200 applicants from 65 countries. The award is a stepping stone for emerging artists. Sponsored by the family-owned brewery Warsteiner, the competition was created to offer young creatives a chance to get their start in the international art market.

The documentary Four Kings shows the artist meeting with strangers who had responded  to her online advertisement. Elagoz visited them in their homes and captured the meetings in surroundings that were unfamiliar to her.

Jury member Robert Kaltenhäuser was completely impressed by the project:  “Samira Elagoz weaves together performance and video, fiction and documentary, art and life, gravity and levity in an impressive and very surprising way. Above all, though, she finds a way to become ‘real’ again as a performer, and despite the strict dogmatic format of her work, she achieves wildly sensational effects with a virtuoso touch.”

The film Four Kings is the first short film made by Samira Elagoz. It is a non-budget documentation of what she experienced with strangers who answered her ad online: “READ ME! I’m a 24 year-old girl making a short documentary film. I’m looking for strangers. The concept is that I meet you at your place and film how we get to know each other. We handshake and the camera is on the table for both of us to use. Msg me if you want to meet :)”

http://www.blooomawardbywarsteiner.com/winners_2014