Submissions Open for New Experimental Film Festival in New York City
The Monticello Park Film Festival has announced the first edition of it's film festival focused exclusively on experimental, avant-garde, and non-traditional cinema from emerging artists.
The cliché has it that in near death experiences we get to see our lives flash past us in a moment. Using the metaphors of water and walking, the films in this programme present different ways of visualizing the stream of thought and the concatenation of images in memory.
Open call / moving images / video installation / still images experimental digital cinema / experimental photography
Collective exhibition in a Parisian gallery, March/May 2023.
This curatorial proposal wishes to explore the artistic production of visual forms from algorithms and conscious work with interfaces, in an introspective framework that seeks to identify the specificities of each creative process.
This call is exclusive to filmmakers based in the Los Angeles metro area. We are looking for strange and experimental shorts to be featured in The New Film Underground Volume 6 screening on Feb. 25th in downtown Los Angeles.
SUBMISSION IS FREE
FIlms must be 15 min. or less. Filmmaker must indicate their zip code in the submission. Again, only filmmakers based in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernadio County, Riverside County, Ventura County.
Graced with beauty, humanity, irony, and touches of humour, Jumana Manna’s sophomore feature witnesses the afterlife of a unique event that captured headlines worldwide: the first complete withdrawal of a nation’s seed collection from the “doomsday vault” (officially known as the Global Seed Vault), which is burrowed deep beneath the Arctic permafrost as an agricultural safeguard should disaster strike. The film traces the journey taken by the Syrian backup seeds:
Monthly festival / A/V event "Live Soundtrack" is seeking for short or feature films without dialogue, which will be accompanied by alternative soundtracking and live performances by various electronic / ambient/ electroacoustic musicians, during the 8th season of the event (April - December 2023). Festival organiser is the curator of the musicians for each event, but a collaboration with the original composer of the film is also possible, if in Europe!
Found footage filmmaking is a practice involving reappropriating and remixing previously shot or created materials for new, innovative purposes. Filmmakers working in this tradition utilize many different methods of transforming moving images—from physically manipulating motion-picture film to juxtaposing disparate content through clever editing to glitching digital video and video game software—to critically examine its original meaning, context, and cultural significance.
Dates:
Thursday, January 12, 2023 (All day) to Saturday, March 18, 2023 (All day)