A small-scale short film festival in Aberystwyth, Wales, Tonnau Short Film Fest's inaugural edition will explore the theme of New Beginnings on 6/7 May.
New Beginnings may refer to shifts in ecological thinking, new landscapes and connections to place, or more radical and utopian notions of social change. It can also refer to new kinds of narratives and the stories we tell ourselves. We are waiting to be surprised by unexpected ideas and forms.
Join us on Sat 26th March at 5:00 pm GMT for the MIA Masterclass with Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti, founders of Microscope Gallery which specializes in exhibiting moving image, sound, performance and digital art. Their presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
Saigon Experimental Film Festival IV will for the first time be screened across multiple locations within Vietnam. Our goal is to generate interest in experimental cinema and video art in Saigon and across Vietnam.
Request for short film submissions!
→ Genre focus: experimental, abstract, video art, documentary. → Length: under 15 minutes → Prefer films made between 2015-2022. → If your film has *any* dialogue, subtitles in English is a requirement. *Submissions without subtitles will be considered incomplete*
Parallel to their unique cinematographic self-portraits, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki launched their Série Portraits in the early 1980s, in which they reinvented the art of film portraiture by composing images of women who don't represent any preconceived idea of "femininity" and by engaging in an ethical reflection of woman as subject in a dialogue that tests the boundaries between Self and Other.
Sonic Cinema is thrilled to present an evening of recent films by Austrian audiovisual artists exploring the boundaries of perception. Through the concepts of visual music and synaesthesia –a neurological condition that causes a blending of the senses– these formally adventurous works blur the boundaries between the visual and sonic arts.
IPFF is on the path towards its third edition in 2022. Once again, we will celebrate short portrait cinema and art with the potential to explore, educate, and transform.
A portrait is an image heavy with meaning. Multilayered and multifaceted, it has a visual, psychological, material, emotional and spiritual dimension.
In her most ambitious work to date, the incomparable Scottish multimedia artist Rachel Maclean “takes a cyber cleaver to art history," a weapon made no less dangerous by its pink and purple glitter-coated handle. Siri, the protagonist, “finds herself at the centre of what appears to be an impossible game show, helmed by the Figurehead, an ornately dressed Maclean lip-syncing to Kenneth Clark’s [classic 1960s BBC TV series] Civilisation.
