Join Chicago Film Archives for the 10th Annual Media Mixer, featuring the world premieres of three new works commissioned by Chicago Film Archives, each created by Chicago media artists and musicians using footage from CFA's collections.
San Diego Underground Film Festival (SDUFF) is one of the West Coast's premier showcases of video, film, and audio based mediums. Selected MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, SDUFF has quickly risen the ranks to become one of the nation's most challenging, nurturing, and down to earth film festivals. Known for taking risks on young talent alongside showcasing legendary film makers, SDUFF prides itself on being a festival by and for disciples of the moving image.
Step aside Dogme 95. Audios Mumblecore. Low cost technology has freed a new wave of international filmmakers to tell personal stories in radical ways. These “bedroom filmmakers” use camera phones, web cams, household items and intense creativity to create beautiful images and stories that go beyond realism- embracing fantasy, surrealism and even horror. On July 10th, Take Your Medicine and Smile Productions is showcasing the best of these new auteurs in a single night of shorts from around the world. Come to the Los Angeles arts district and discover the future.
In his groundbreaking four-part work Parallel (2012-14), Harun Farocki explores the realm of video game design, particularly in its conception and creation of virtual worlds. With his characteristically probing, philosophical perspective, Farocki reveals and ponders the myriad ways in which these designed environments connect to or depart from our own individual and collective understanding of the actual world we inhabit. Through Farocki’s lens, video game design, as a practice of digital cosmogony, reveals itself as both a tool of the imagination and, inevitably
Real time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, accompanied by Ken Field's ethereal and cinematic improvisations on saxophone with looping electronics. An evening of street grids, rivers, islands, and curiosities from the built environment. Saturated colors. Glitches in crowdsourced data. Orphaned information and free-floating symbology.
Diametrale.Film Festival for Experiment & Humour/Absurdism in the Alps of Austria (Innsbruck) Call forSubmissions! Deadline: Sept 18, 2022 Apart from short films you can also submit VR [Virtual Reality] content.