Professor Gruffat won two top awards in filmmaking.
Sabine Gruffat, Hamel Family Professor of Communication Arts, captured two top prizes at major film and video production competitions this fall.
She won the 2009 Best Experimental Film Award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival for "Jaws," which explores the manner by which technology alters the way we look at, listen to, and feel the world.
Gruffat also took the 2009 University Film & Video Association Best Faculty Jury Award in the experimental film category for "Head Lines: Hybrid Film Trilogy."
Gruffat made these films by animating texts from The New York Timesarticles to provide a visual commentary on the structure of how the news is reported.