Libera was honoured for the design of his experimental film, "Popołudnie w barze Ozon" / "An afternoon in the Ozone bar". The award, aimed at film production, amounted to zł.500,000 ($158,144, €115,846). The winner was chosen by a jury made up of: Wojciech Marczewski, Edward Żebrowski, Sebastian Cichocki and Łukasz Ronduda.
According to the organisers of the Film Award competition, it is designed "for artists and visual artists who want a professional way to create a feature film".
The joint initiative of the Polish Film Institute, MSN, and Wajda School is the existence of experimental film in cinemas. The Film Award organisers believe that by supporting the production of radically new forms of artistic expression of film, Polish cinema may be a significant aesthetic renewal and its reintroduction on the global map of film-making.
The explanatory memorandum stated that Zbigniew Libera's project "most fully reconciled with the visual quality of modern cinema", and the "formally innovative shape of film, derived from the previous work of this artist, has been curiously linked with an intriguing vision of the world, the characters and their story".
"The events in the film take place in an indefinite future, a post-control reality, with billions of nanocameras mounted in every corner of reality, on which has already lost any control. The characters spend their last days suspended in an extreme situation that forces them to respond to the most important questions life has thrown at them", reads the director's explanation by Zbigniew Libera.
Libera will develop the screenplay, "Popołudnie w barze Ozon" during the annual "Rehearsal Studio" feature-film programme at the Wajda Film School, preparing scenes for production. The artist hopes to start shooting in 2012.
"I would like it could be shown both in cinemas and also in museums," said Libera.
Source: PAP