Experimental Film Festival Portland 2013
May 2013, Portland, Oregon
Deadline February 15 2013

EFF Portland is looking for experimental shorts to feature in its second annual festival slated for May 2013 in Portland, or If you have a work that breaks form, challenges narrative convention or forces us to reinterpret our definition of cinema, we’re interested.

If you are not sure what experimental means, take out a piece of paper and pen or pencil, and begin scribbling or scratching in a manner that you may never have tried before. Close your eyes and think of nothing. Create a new language or attempt to revive one you heard in your distant memory. Overlap shapes to create new shapes. Maybe sing aloud while doing this or rhythmically hop from one foot to the other. You get the drift.

We are looking for short experimental film and video works, installations and performances under 20 minutes. If you have a longer film you feel we should consider, please contact us at [email protected].

Submission Form for Films - Submission Form for Installations/Performances

Experiments in Cinema v8.53 call for submissions
Deadline (postmarked): December 15, 2012

Basement Films’ annual celebration of moving image art is proud to announce our call for submissions for Experiments in Cinema v8.53 (April 15-20, 2013).

We are seeking works that MIGHT be categorized as un-dependent, counter current, personal, experimental, experimental/experimental, underground, experimental-underground, experimental documentary, film poems, essay films, dance films, structural films, non-structural films, non-non structural films, experimental structural films, video installations, live media performances, transgression films, etc, etc, etc…. I think you get the drift, baby!  Challenge us and we will be happy.

Please see www.experimentsincinema.com for our on-line submission form.

Email Bryan Konefsky (festival director) at [email protected], or Nicole Hoch (print traffic controller) at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Remember, happiness IS a warm projector.

Millennium Film Journal #57: Call for Contributions
Violence & Artists’ Cinema
Deadline: December 15th 2012

Violence can be our greatest fear, or our greatest turn on.

Artists’ cinema allows viewers and practitioners to personally address and confront violence and the violent, from the Kuchars’ playing war games in the Catskills, to the undercurrents of violence in the work of Kenneth Anger or Mounir Fatmi; from Deborah Stratman’s meditation on the aggression of US border protection, to M. M. Serra’s investigation of self-mutilation as an art form. Deeper than subject matter, film, itself, can become a body and object of aggression and violence: consider the work of Paul Sharits. Or a cinematic work can attack its audience – wounding viewers on a visceral level.

How have the portrayals and enactments of violence in artists’ cinema been affected by the instability of borders, video games, drone attacks, the concept of terrorism, the embattled economy, and personal and public unrest brought on by economic instability? What roles does violence play in artists’ cinema? It is a catharsis, taboo or something else all together? Has this purpose changed as we’ve entered into the 21st century or does it touch on an age-old instinct?

We invite theorists, artists, technicians, historians and critics to contribute texts relating to these concepts and questions of violence in relation to artists’ cinema.