Due to popular demand, FRACTO is happy to announce that the final submissions deadline is extended to SATURDAY 1ST APRIL, 2023 (MIDNIGHT CET). We are pleased to report an extraordinary quantity and quality of entries, and an exciting encounter and experience are in store for 2023.
As we are setting up the 7th edition of FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, we would like to remind you that the SUBMISSION CALL for 2023 is now open. We encourage all international filmmakers and artists to tune in and submit their recent works!
NOTA BENE as usual:
- Every filmmaker may submit up to two films - Films must have been completed after the 1st of January, 2022 - All formats are accepted: celluloid (S8, 16MM, 35MM ) or digital - Both short and feature films
FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter announces its sixth edition and invites audiences to immerse themselves in 3 days of film screenings, talks and performances, taking place between the 27th and the 29th of May 2022 at Kunsthaus ACUD, in Berlin Mitte.
This year, FRACTO will present forty-one films curated into six programs, along with two film performances and a workshop.
Dates:
Friday, May 27, 2022 (All day) to Sunday, May 29, 2022 (All day)
The annual FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter returns to its usual slot in Spring for its 6th edition in May, 2022. Hence we are inviting filmmakers and artists to submit their recent works.
The SUBMISSION DEADLINE is the 1st of April, 2022, 23:59 CET
Every filmmaker may submit a maximum of two films. All films should meet the following criteria:
The annual FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter once again invites filmmakers working in the varied domain of Experimental film to showcase their works combining contemporary contexts with a perceptual concern for how they are framed.
The entire festival is planned to take place on-site in Berlin, however due to the ongoing Covid situation, we might have to adapt some of our plans in light of the circumstances in Germany at the scheduled time of the festival.
Every year, FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter invites artists to present experimental film works which explore today’s perceptual landscape and question its set of technological configurations and to engage with the public to discuss current forms of audiovisual experimental art.
FRACTO is now accepting submissions for its 4th edition, which will take place at Kunsthaus ACUD in Berlin from May 27-31, 2020.
FRACTO is an annual Experimental Film Encounter inviting artists and filmmakers to present works that explore today's perceptual landscape and interrogate its set of technological configurations. The second edition will be held at ACUD MACHT NEU Cinema & Studio in Berlin from the 24th to the 27th of May 2018, with four days of screenings, artist talks and workshops.
Dates:
Thursday, May 24, 2018 (All day) to Sunday, May 27, 2018 (All day)
"The apparatus as an eccentric performer within the film.”
FRACTO festival seeks to reflect upon the techno-attitude that directs film towards the demands of its apparatus, constantly floating as a supreme and fragmented perceptual eye. In this configuration perceptual contingency is ultimately conceived as a totalizing, post-organic point of view—seemingly seeking primarily itself—instead of folding in on specific meanings conveyed by a clear distance from medium.
