Tribeca Film Festival to Award Winning Filmmakers with Artworks

Detail from Taryn Simon’s 2010 work “Movies, Animated (Pirated).”

Who needs another gold-plated statuette or crystalline slab when you can have an artwork by the likes of Tom Otterness, Inka Essenhigh, and Will Ryman? That’s what winners at the Tribeca Film Festival will take home in lieu of trophies, thanks to the festival’s Artist Awards Program. Among the paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures donated this year are Taryn Simon‘s Plexiglas-encased photos of pirated movies (a chilling sight for any filmmaker) that she clinically captured for her Contraband

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