A day of talks, screenings and roundtables exploring the depiction of cities in the 'urban essay film’.
City, Essay, Film is a series of discussions and screenings hosted by UCL Urban Laboratory to examine the concept and practice of the ‘urban essay film’.
This innovative collection plays in the gray, showcasing works on the cusp of multiple genres. Beyond mere documentary, these works astutely blend aspects of narrative, animation, comedy, or the avant-garde into markedly nontraditional frameworks.
- All Inclusive (Corina Schwingruber Ilić, 2018, Switzerland, 10:00 minutes) Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas.
Engauge, an experimental film festival based in Seattle, WA, and now in its second year, invites you to submit your work originating on film. Engauge was founded to highlight and augment the Lightpress Grants. Offered twice yearly by our primary sponsor, the Interbay Cinema Society, Lightpress Grants help filmmakers with the funding to professionally digitize their films. In keeping with our mission, “Engauge” will consider only films that began on celluloid.
The Moving Image Salon is a monthly gathering in London for artists working in the fields of moving image and experimental filmmaking. It is intended as a relaxed and open space for conversation and exchange about contemporary moving image practices, a networking event and critical forum.
Remont – Independent Artistic Association from Belgrade – and the "Ilija & Mangelos"Foundation from Novi Sad are pleased to announce an open call for the "Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos" Award 2019.
Working with new definitions of experimental film, writing, and dance from September 20 to September 29, 2018, Counterpath is excited to present year 3 of The Unseen Festival, exploring notions of the resistant, the excluded, and the unacknowledged.
Short (Between 2-25 minutes) experimental video and film works from 2017-2019 will only be considered. Please submit your films and videos via https://filmfreeway.com/UnseenFestival2019
In this collection of recent work by North Carolina artists Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown, celluloid film serves as both a material register and a critical resource for interrogating the documentary image. Whether using discontinuous montage, handmade techniques, digital processing, or dramatic re-enactments, these experimental films aim to extend the formal possibilities of non-fiction filmmaking, while depicting such iconic subject matter as Confederate monuments, Earthworks, and the great American road trip.
