Electric Spring, in association with the Centre for Experimental Practice (CXP) and the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM), is announcing an open call for experimental short films at Electric Spring 2024.

We welcome short films with an experimental approach to any aspect of audio visual expression – visual, sound, narrative, genre, performance, theme... all approaches are encouraged for submission. Films selected by the jury will be screened at an evening event slot (9-10pm) at Electric Spring on the festivals 3.5m x 6.2m screen and utilise the Huddersfield Immersive Sound System (HISS).

Submission Fee: No submission fee Application Form: https://forms.gle/SRaa1DATe3QLxQvF9 Deadline: August 11, 2023 More info: https://www.electricspring.co.uk/call/

Entry Guidelines:

• Films should ideally be shorter than 7 minutes. Films exceeding 10 minutes are unable to be considered.
• The first sift of applications will be decided based upon a nominated extract (1 minute) by the artist. Please indicate the starting point for this one minute extract in the submission form.
• Media links should connect to a video streaming service (YouTube, Vimeo, etc...). Links to file sharing service (WeTransfer, SwissTransfer, Google Drive, etc...) are unable to be considered.
• It is preferred that media links are not be password protected.
• Limit 1 entry per person.