Neno Belchev graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. He works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of performance, installation, sculpture and new media. Neno has made one full-length movie, four medium-length documentaries and numerous short narrative films and video art works, which won prizes, awards and nominations from international video and film festivals in the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, India, Malaysia, Romania and Austria, as well as residency-grants in the United States, Russia, China, Japan, France and Portugal. His works are possession of Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), SAMSA (Sofia Arsenal Museum for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria); private collections in the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Spain, Ukraine and others. Mr. Belchev is one of the founders of the International Video Art Festival Videoholica, Varna http://www.nenobel.net/
semi-finalist
Powerlessness
OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival
Lugano
2020
semi-finalist
La Primavera or About Some Features, Possibilities and the Consequences of Creative Approach
REALTIME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (RTF)
Ikeja, Lagos
2020
finalist
La Primavera or About Some Features, Possibilities and the Consequences of Creative Approach
The Online 2020 Forwardian Film Festival
Stroudsburg, PA
2020
semi-finalist
La Fauna Mallorquina
IX OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival
Lugano
2020
Semi-Finalist
Ice-cream and Freedom
CTL 59 SEGUNDOS - • VII Concurso Europeo de Creación
Navarra
2020
Finalist
Ice-cream and Freedom
Filmfest Bremen
Bremen
2019
Semi-Finalist
Ice-cream and Freedom
Bratina film festival
Moscow
2019
Special Mention for Experimental Impact
Metaphysical Grapefruit of Cognition
Video Hackers Fest
Ovada
2019
Nomination for the "time in the puls Award 2019"
An Address to a President
zeitimpuls shortfilm
Vienna
2019
Semi-Finalist
The Advantage of the Painter, Who Draws with His Left Hand?
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival
Bilbao
2018
Semi-Finalist
Buddha and the Аliens (Meditation of the Statue)
4th International Arogya Film Festival
Ghaziabad
2018
Best Multimedia Video
Buddha and the Аliens (Meditation of the Statue)
The Buddha International Film Festival
Pune
2018
Semi-Finalist
My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of Black Sea
Los Angeles CineFest
Los Angeles
2018
PRIZE for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of Black Sea
Freedom Film Festival
Kuala Lumpur
2018
nomination in category INNOVATION
My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of Black Sea
IV-th Film Festival Bremen
Bremen
2018
nomination in category EXPERIMENTAL FILM
My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of Black Sea
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
Istanbul
2018
GRANT at ESMoA 2018 А-i-R program, ESMoA (El Segundo Museum of Art)
My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of Black Sea
screening at ESMoA (El Segungo Museum of Art)
El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA,
2018
travel grant by Bulgarian Ministry of Culture
IMMIGRATION IN SUITCASE
XXX Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques Festivalcurateurs: Naïk M'Sili and Marc Mercier, (catalog)
Marseille
2017
FIRST PRIZE in category VIDEO ART
Positive Message (Lord of the Rainbow)
ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival: La Esperanza
El Segundo, Los Angeles, CA
2017
SECOND PRIZE in category BEST FILM
My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of Black Sea
12 Months Film Festival
Cluj-Napoca
2017
Лучший экспериментальный фильм (the PRIZE for BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM)
My Heart Is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of Black Sea
1st Russian (Russky) Film Festival
Moscow
2017
FIRST PLACE
Positive Message (Lord of the Rainbow)
Acid Rain July 2013 Episode #59
New York, NY
2013
FIRST PRIZE
Positive Message (Lord of the Rainbow)
DUPINI LIKE: international video art exhibition
Veliko Turnovo
2013
GRANT at the OCAT (OCT CONTEMPORARY ART TERMINAL of He Xiangning Art Museum) International Art Residency – 2009
IMMIGRATION IN SUITCASE
THE INVISIBLE GENERATION IN SHENZHEN: Vision Forum in 4 consecutive cities; curators Per Huttner and Daniele Balit
Shenzhen
2009
GRANT - artist in residency by REDline’08_Bordering on Us, programme in Espaço IMERGE of IDEIAS EMERGENTES (IMERGE)
IMMIGRATION IN SUITCASE
BORDERING ON US: 2008 year’s edition of REDline
Porto
2008
College
National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Mural Painting, MA
19911997
High School
National School of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
sculpture
19851990
Birth Date
September 16, 1971
Birth City
VARNA
Current City
VARNA
Hometown
VARNA
Ethnicity
VARNA
Всичко е безсмислено, сине, дори в случаите, когато смисълът е очевиден. Казано с други думи: смисъл има и в най-безсмислените актове.
баща ми, художник
Everything is meaningless, son, even in cases when the meaning is obvious! In other words: There is sence even in the most meaningless acts!
my father, an artist
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Xаосът, kойто цари в заобикалящия ни свят е само огледална проекция на хаоса вътре в нас, сине, на хаоса в нашите сърца...
баща ми, художник
The chaos, which reigns in our surrounding environment, is just a mirror projection of the chaos inside us, son, of the chaos in our hearts...
my father, an artist
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Хората сме като цветята, сине, тези, които ги поливат - цъфтят, а тези, които не ги поливат - вяхнат. А бурените: тях - не само, че не ги поливат, тях - с мотиката по глaвата, но те пак никнат.
баща ми, художник
People are like flowers, son, those that are watered - blossom, and those that are not watered - wilt. But weeds: they are not watered on the contrary, they are beaten with the hoe on the head, but they still spring up.
my father, an artist
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...изкуството е облак, а художниците бъркат в този облак: някои с един пръст, други са заврели ръцете си вътре до лактите, а трети „плуват“ в облака както рибите в морето...
баща ми
...art is a cloud and the artists delve in this cloud: some of them just with a finger, others submerge their hands to elbows inside in this cloud, but thirds "swim" in the cloud as fishes in the sea...
my father
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Изкуството е като секса, сине, много по-добре е да го правиш, отколкото да говориш за него.
баща ми, художник
Art is like sex, son, it is much better to do it, than to talk about it!
my father, an artist
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Да уловиш духа на времето не е същото като да следваш тенденциите, сине!
баща ми, художник
To catch the spirit of the time is not the same as to follow the tendencies, son!
my father, an artist
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