CHICAGO SEEN is Chicago Filmmakers' year-round open call for project submissions celebrating the Chicago community. Chicago Filmmakers is a not-for-profit arts organization celebrating 50 years serving the Chicago community.
RULES: Accepting short film submissions (especially experimental and underground film/video) by: 1.) CHICAGO-BORN OR CHICAGO-BASED filmmakers
Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with Thea Farhadian, violin and electronics, and Dean Santomieri, electric resonator guitars. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Chromatic timbres and iridescent micro-tonalities. Orphaned labels and free-floating symbology. Auditory roundabouts and redirections. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Sounds symphonic and screeching.
As part of the group exhibition Light shine glimmer — leak spill shimmer by Luuk Schröder, Lucy Cordes Engelman, and Bea Haut, the special screening WATER+BODY: 16mm Korean Experimental Cinema from the 1990s to Today will present eight works made on 16mm film by seven filmmakers: Lim Chang-jae, Lee Jang-wook, Jang Minyong, Jang Eunju, Onyou Oh, Yu Chae, Park Kyujae. Five of the films will be screened in 16mm.
Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF) returns as a five-day event from 22nd – 26th November 2023, following the debut edition’s raging success last year. EAEFF is conceived by Ushmita Sahu, Director and head Curator of Emami Art. This year, the scope of the Festival has grown to encompass twenty-two films in the competitive section + thirty-three Indian and international films across seven curated sections + Masterclasses, Filmmaker in Focus, Panel Discussions, Special screenings and more.
Dates:
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, November 26, 2023 (All day)
Artist in person — Q&A follows the performance In Person Only
Microscope is very pleased to present an evening of film performances by Japanese filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa. The artist will join us for a Q&A following the performances.
ANALOGICA is celebrating its thirteenth edition and returns to the spaces of Waag and FotoForum in Bolzano for a new event dedicated to experimental cinema and family film archives. It is precisely the family archives in Super 8 format that help recover a story of love and resistance that would otherwise have been lost. Nelly and Nadine is the extraordinary documentary by Magnus Gertten, to which the opening night of Analogica is dedicated.
Dates:
Thursday, November 9, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, November 12, 2023 (All day)
