Calls for entries

  • Stockholm Experimental & Animation Film Festival 2016

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    Stockholm Experimental and Animation Film Festival, SEAFF, will present highly recognized artists and directors from the international scene as well as new and emerging independent artists, filmmakers and storytellers. Our first Edition will be held att Bio Rio, one of the finest and oldest Cinemas in Stockholm, founded 1943.

    We are looking for filmmakers who exploit the potential of the medium to conjure and process the experiences of the world and who have an artistic ability to portray the spiritual knowledge of the same. This requires no theme of content and form. We accept narrative and none narrative film, video art, computer animation (2D & 3D), traditional animation and stop-motion animation on any topic, from every country around the world.

    Dates: 

    Monday, March 21, 2016 (All day)
  • WNDX 2016 Call for entries

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    WNDX seeks new Canadian and international films and videos for our next edition, to be held Sept 21 to 25, 2016. WNDX pays special attention to the most innovative and ground-breaking works created by moving image artists. In the past, WNDX has featured spotlights on Crispin Glover, Richard Tuohy, Guy Maddin, Joyce Wieland, George Kuchar, Steve Reinke, Barbara Sternberg, Phil Hoffman, John Price and Michael Snow, a well as the work of the Loop Collective.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 20:30
  • Call for Papers: MIRAJ - 50 Years of British Artists’ Moving Image

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    On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the London Filmmakers’ Cooperative (LFMC) and the fortieth anniversary of London Video Arts (now LUX), articles are invited that reflect upon the histories, contexts and legacies of artists’ film and video practices in Britain since 1966. Both organisations played a significant role in the development of the distinctive and diverse artists’ moving image culture experienced in the UK today. This double issue of MIRAJ marks these anniversaries in order to draw forth new scholarship and research in a vital field of study and practice. This issue will be guest edited by Benjamin Cook and Lucy Reynolds.

    Dates: 

    Monday, August 15, 2016 (All day)
  • EXiS 2016 Call for Entries

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    EXiS Call for Entries
    11th Experimental Film And Video Festival In Seoul 2016

    Annual international experimental film and video festival EXiS 2016 is waiting for your innovative film and videos! EXiS is the biggest premier showcase of experimental media works in Asia. To enter, fill in our entry form.

    Entry deadline: May 30th, 2016 (Postmark)

    Dates: 

    Monday, May 30, 2016 (All day)
  • Auckland Underground Film Festival 2016

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    The Auckland Underground Film Festival is seeking experimental cinema pieces from filmmakers and time-based media artists! We're an international short film and video art festival showcasing the exciting and challenging work that is outside the scope of mainstream film festivals and art galleries. For the 2016 festival we’re looking for abstract, narrative and documentary works between 0 and 15 minutes.

    Dates: 

    Monday, August 1, 2016 (All day)
  • Visual Music Award 2016 - Call for entries

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    The Visual Music Award 2016 is an international creative competition for works on music visualizations from the fields of new media art, experimental film or animation. Submission deadline is extended till May 17th 2016!

    The avant-garde-artists of the “Absolute Film” movement worked on visionary film experiments. They created visual symphonies from animated images which they composed on film according to their perception as artists. These were called “paintings in time”, ”visual music”, “symphonies of light and sound”, “cinematic paintings”, “color light music” or “space light art”. The Visual Music Award 2016 is an international call for works addressing artists working in the field of "visual music". Invited for participation are independent creative artists and designers as well as students in the disciplines of new media art, experimental film, music video and allied disciplines.

    Dates: 

    Tuesday, May 17, 2016 (All day)
  • STIFF 2016 Call for entries

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    With two successful years behind and more than 3000 student films submitted from around the world, STIFF opens its submissions window for its 3rd edition.This year we are focusing on documentaries and therefore we are leaving the early bird deadline for submission of the category of documentaries free of charge. Another news are two out of competition categories in which students can apply with experimental film and art video of up to 25 min in length and unrestricted in the year of production.

    Dates: 

    Sunday, March 20, 2016 (All day)
    Wednesday, April 20, 2016 (All day)
    Friday, May 20, 2016 (All day)

    Venue: 

    ArtKino Croatia - Rijeka, Croatia
  • ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2016

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    The word ARKIPEL was taken from ‘archipelago’ which refers to a term in Indonesian language ‘nusantara’. The word was known since the early 16th century. Nusantara is a group of thousand of islands keeping long globalization history of politics, cultural, and economics. More than 500 years ago, this region has become one of main destinations for Western explorer whom tried to find new areas to be colonized or as trading partner. Besides the European, there were also people came from the East (China, Arab, and India) which made this Nusantara region as an exploration destination in their trading missions of spices and silk. ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival was initiated by Forum Lenteng to read a global phenomenon in social, political, economic and culture contexts through cinema. Of cinema, it is expected to capture the global society phenomenon, both in terms of aesthetic and socio-political context through the language of documentary and experimental filmmaking.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, April 7, 2016 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Film Forum - New York, United States
  • Anywhere but here Call for Submissions

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    Black Light Film and Video Series is currently seeking submissions for the upcoming Anywhere but here film screening on March 28th, 2016. 

    We are looking for short films/videos (under 20 mins) that explore a specific space. This space can be explored directly or indirectly, traditionally or experimentally, within the film or video. The space (or spaces) must be central to the theme (or themes) of the work. Fiction and non-fiction work will be considered. We can accommodate 16mm, Super 8mm, 8mm, VHS, and digital files. 

    Dates: 

    Monday, March 28, 2016 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Sediment Arts - Richmond, United States
  • Open call for 3rd International Festival of Experimental Video “Proceso de Error”

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    The Festival “Proceso de Error”, organized by INVE - Experimental Platform for Arts, has established itself as an unique event in Chile that promotes research, production and dissemination of experimental video internationally. In its third edition, the contest not only opens its call for videos to display at the show, but also for performances and exhibitions to be held prior to the event, to be held in Valparaíso from 31 May to 4 June 2016.

    Dates: 

    Thursday, April 14, 2016 (All day)

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