Calls for entries

Magmart festival XI edition

By enrico tomaselli on Mon, 29/10/2018 - 04:56

Magmart | video under volcano is an international videoart festival, which over the years has seen the participation of more than 1400 artists from +80 different countries, with thousand submitted videos.

The Festival is open to all international videoartists. Participation is free.

Among all submitted video, a final selection will be done based on the vote of a Jury composed by experts. Any author can participate with max 5 videos.
Deadline:
Sunday, April 7, 2019 (All day)
5th open international contest Freedom of Form

By Anonymous on Mon, 29/10/2018 - 04:53

Interference Foundation – the main organiser of the Interference Festival of Visual Communication Forms in Gdansk – is pleased to open the contest “Freedom of Form”, inviting entries of visual works in one of two main categories.

1. MUSIC VIDEO [max 10 minutes]2. EXPERIMENTAL SHORT VISUAL FORM [max 8 minutes]
Deadline:
Friday, November 30, 2018 (All day)
Laterale Film Festival 2019 call for entries

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 25/10/2018 - 05:47

Laterale Film Festival is an international non competitive Film Festival of cinematic art organized by Associazione Culturale Laterale. The aim of the project is to enhance the most innovative aspects of audio-visual languages of the contemporary world and to reduce the distance between artistic research and public involvement.
Deadline:
Sunday, March 31, 2019 (All day)
New York City Independent Film Festival 2019 - Experimental Section - Call For Entries

By Anonymous on Wed, 24/10/2018 - 03:16

The New York City Independent Film Festival - Experimental Section is now accepting submissions for its 10th edition.

The festival screens in central Manhattan (Times Square) and welcomes work by artists of all nations.

Deadline:
Sunday, December 30, 2018 (All day)
The Unforeseen 2018- Call for Entries

By Marko Milicevic on Wed, 24/10/2018 - 03:12

3rd International festival of short experimental, analog cinema and Live OST – The Unforeseen

16-17. November 2018.Center for cultural decontamination (CZKD), Belgrade

The call for entries is open
Deadline:
Sunday, November 11, 2018 (All day)
Spectral Film Festival

By Anonymous on Mon, 22/10/2018 - 04:01

The Spectral Film Festival believes deeply in the capacity of filmmaking to embody individual and collective voices. Innate to its character, this festival seeks to celebrate unconventional forms of expression through experimental, avant-garde, and underground works. We are looking for short-form cinematic pieces that permeate the boundaries of texture, intimacy, and hybridity; those that are unnerving, immersive, expository, and are as daring as they ask their viewer to be in redefining what is accepted as fact.
Deadline:
Sunday, January 6, 2019 (All day)
Found Footage Magazine issue #6: Call for papers

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 16/10/2018 - 05:28

Found Footage Magazine is an independent semi-annual publication distributed worldwide, offering theoretical, analytical and informative contents related to found footage filmmaking. Found Footage Magazine accommodates a selection of articles and sections aimed at promoting the culture of recycled cinema from different approaches: monographs, academic essays, interviews, opinion pieces, film reviews, film festival reports and profiles of media products related to the eclectic universe of found footage film-making.

Deadline:
Monday, July 15, 2019 (All day)
FLEX FEST 2019 Call for Entries

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 15/10/2018 - 06:12

The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival dates are February 7th-10th, 2019 in Tampa, Florida. Festival applications are open 10/10/2018 – 11/20/18

FLEX FEST is seeking short form experimental films and videos (30mins or less) for the 2019 festival. We can screen Super 8mm, 16mm, and High Quality digital formats (not DCP.) The last FLEX competition festival was held in 2015, so we are looking for any work made after January of 2015.

Deadline:
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 (All day)
CROSSROADS 2019

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 11/10/2018 - 04:22

Founded by filmmaker Bruce Baillie in 1961, San Francisco Cinematheque is the Bay Area’s premier venue for avant-garde, experimental, underground and personally expressive film, video and performance work. In its dedication to exhibiting works of aesthetically radical cinema from all historical eras and geo-political locales, Cinematheque cultivates the international field of artist-made cinema, inspiring aesthetic dialog and critical discourse and encouraging appreciation across the broader cultural landscape.

Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Mon Jan 14 2019.
Friday, November 30, 2018 (All day)
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 (All day)
Poetic Deconstruction: Workshop by Péter Lichter & Bori Máté at Primanima

By Anonymous on Tue, 09/10/2018 - 10:34

The aim of this unique experimental film workshop at Primanima Festival of First Animations is to get the participants acquainted with the technique of making a celluloid-based abstract film. During the workshop, the participants will work with 35 mm celluloid strips and colour them with different paints and felt tip markers. The strips used for the workshop have been buried in the ground and the procedure partially decomposed the images on them.
Deadline:
Monday, October 15, 2018 (All day)