The website YouTube was created
in 2005 and became an overnight success.Google bought YouTube for more than
$1,600,000 the following year.In May,YouTube announced that two billion videos
were watched each day.
In June,the Guggenheim Museum in
New York City announced it would hold a competition among YouTube
videos.Now,the judges have chosen the top 125 videos.
The Guggenheim and YouTube
launched the competition called“YouTube Play.A Biennial(兩年一度)of Creative
Video.”The information technology companies HP and
Intel are supporting the event.23,000 videos entered the competition.They
represented 91 countries and every possible style of movie making.
The rules of the competition were
few.Video makers had to be eighteen years or older.They could enter only one
video.It had to be no more than ten minutes long.Any language,subject,sound,and
style were considered.
Eleven
people are judging the videos.They include artists,musicians,and filmmakers.Laurie Anderson is all three.She
says all her art starts with a story,so she looks for a story as she judges the
videos.
Other judges include the
filmmaker Darren Aronofsky,the band Animal Collective,and artist and
filmmaker,Shirin Neshat.
New Jersey artist Dahlia Elsayed’s video is one of the finalists.She used
the camera in her computer to record herself describing her daily food desires
for one month.The video is simple,short,and interesting.
A frightening,but beautiful video
came from Chile.The video by Niles Atallah,Joaquin Cocina Varas.and Cristobal Leon
is called“Luis”.It is an animated ghostly story of a tense,angry boy.It is very
dark,but impossible to stop watching.
“Mars to Jupiter”is a video from Canada by Sterling Pache.It is about a survivor of
the 1994 genocide(種族屠殺)in Rwanda.The video explores how
her past still haunts(縈繞) her.
Other chosen videos are from
France,Spain,Taiwan,Australia,and Israel.Almost thirty countries are
represented.You can see them if you link to YouTube Play from our website at
voaspecialenglish.com.
People can
also see the 125 videos at the Guggenheim museums in New York；Bilbao,Spain;Berlin,Germany;and
Venice,Italy.
On October 21,the YouTube Play
judges will announce the final twenty winning videos at a special event at the
Guggenheim in New York.The Videos will be on View there until October 24.
1.Accoding to the text,YouTube might be
.
A.a video sharing website
B.a supporting company of the
event
C.a museum in New York City
D.a frightening,but beautiful
video
2.Who were supposed to enter the contest according to the text?
A.Video makers in
English—speaking countries.
B.Video makers from New York
City.
C.Video makers all over the
world.
D.Video makers under the age of
18.
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the
text?
A.The rules of the competition
were quite complicated.
B.Twenty videos will finally be
picked out as the best.
C.The style of video was strictly
limited.
D.Only artists can judge the
competitio.
4. is a simple and relaxing
story about daily life.
A.“Mars to
Jupiter” B.Niles
Atallah’s video
C.“Luis”
D.Dahlia Elsayed’s video
5.The text is mainly about
.
A.a famous
wetsite B.a
famous museum
C.some interesting videos D.a
video competition
.