About the MuVi Award

The selection of international clips as well as the competition of German productions demonstrated how image and sound can be integrated in a fertile relationship in the music video. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland, 10 May 2001

That's why the music video can be an aesthetic laboratory, not just in the underground, but also in the mainstream, where the stars, the money and the good directors are. A brilliant move on the part of the Oberhausen Festival, then, to incorporate the video clip genre. Frankfurter Rundschau, Germany, 7 May 2001

Some of the two dozen presented works may not have made a layman think of them as music videos at all, while some of the contributions were so outstanding that they would have been well placed in the competition. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany, 7 May 2001

The aesthetic qualities of the clips [...] were exceedingly well brought out on the big screen. Musikwoche.de, 5. June 2001

The music video genre establishes itself increasingly as a cinematic field of experimentation. Filmdienst, June 2001