Experimental film and new media from the Middle East and North Africa
Call for Submissions
Deadline February 1st 2012

The Arts at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, a visual arts exhibition program, is planning a Spring 2012 program of experimental film and new media from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diasporas. Inspired by the Arab Spring and its potential for a radical redress of oppressive structures of power, the program explores ways in which power determines frames of social and cultural visibility. Drawn from work both invited and solicited through this call, the program examines marginalized subjectivities. Submitted work should address gender and sexuality, (cross) border identities, counter-cultural practices, or other experiences not commonly reflected in mainstream narrative films.

This program is co-sponsored by Artist Television Access and the San Francisco Arab Film Festival. There are no limitations on length and no fees for submitting your film. For submission form and guidelines please send an email to [email protected].

Filmarmalade. Call for artists' film and video works
Deadline March 1st 2012

Filmarmalade would like to invite artist film makers to submit film or video works for publication in our 2012 artists' film and video DVD series. Every year Filmarmalade publish a series of films, selected through a process of invited and open submission. Each DVD includes one film only and is accompanied by a specially filmed interview with the artist.

Filmarmalade DVD's include work by the following artists: Kristian De La Riva, Miranda Whall, Mirza and Butler, Adam Roberts, Julia Dogra-Brazell, Aukje Dekker, Luciano Zubillaga, Claudia Joskowicz, Emily Russell, Sara Preibsch, Alexander Schellow, Lena Nix, Miranda Pennell, Patricia Shrigley, Jenny Stark, Ralitza Petrova, Kelvin Kyung Kun Park and Francisca Benitez.

All published works will be individually screened at the IMT gallery, London and will also be available to buy at the BFI Filmstore, London, ICA, London, Close-up, London, Lux, London, IMT Gallery, London and at Image/Movement, Berlin or by order from all good bookshops. Please send film or video works on PAL or NTSC DVD for consideration to: Filmarmalade, Studio 4, 21 London Fields Eastside, London E8 3SA, United Kingdom by the 01.03.12.

Experimental Film Festival Portland 2012
May 21-27, 2012, Portland, Oregon
Deadline February 15 2012

EFF Portland is looking for experimental shorts to feature in its first annual festival slated for May 2012 in Portland, or If you have a work that breaks form, challenges narrative convention or forces us to reinterpret our definition of cinema, we’re interested.

If you are not sure what experimental means, take out a piece of paper and pen or pencil, and begin scribbling or scratching in a manner that you may never have tried before. Close your eyes and think of nothing. Create a new language or attempt to revive one you heard in your distant memory. Overlap shapes to create new shapes. Maybe sing aloud while doing this or rhythmically hop from one foot to the other. You get the drift.

We are looking for short experimental film and video works under 15 minutes. If you have a longer film you feel we should consider, please contact us at [email protected].

Download the Submission Form