Mono No Aware: Call For Entries
Submissions Due November 7th 2009

You are welcome to submit. MONO NO AWARE is open to any person or group of persons making work incorporating Super8 or 16mm film format as part of that presentation. For example: blending film & theater performance, musicians creating a visual experience for their sound, & experimental filmmakers working with story tellers. Entries will only be accepted on Super8 or 16mm film. FILM ONLY. No Digital Video.

Part of our purpose in having this gathering is to put an emphasis on the cinematic experience. Film & video are so easily accessible, you can watch something on a website, television, a home projector, or even your cell phone. For some filmmakers those vehicles are copies of the original artwork, each one degraded by its format. We believe there is a magic in seeing the film as a print. There is a presence a poet has reading his/her own writing. There is a feeling that resonates in your chest when you see a band live. For these reasons we are encouraging live music, performance, and audio to expand the cinematic experience beyond the screen. We ask that in the spirit of the festival you not video or create copies of your performance. Some participants have gone as far as to destroy the work after its first run at the event.

Embrace the film medium. Cut & splice found footage you picked up at a yard sale. Take all your unused footage from an old project and create something new with the unused scenes. Spend 50 bucks to shoot & process 100 feet of 16mm & make a 3 minute masterpiece with a friend's Bolex. Paint on the film surface. Go on eBay and pick up a dozen old reels for ten bucks. Run 10 projectors at once on a single screen. Splice, dice, paste, shoot, and do it all over again. Create visual poetry, colorful abstractions, a comedic narrative, a cinematic comet that will light up the space for several minutes and live in the minds of those there to see it in its pure state. While it's there, fill the audience's ears with a score nothing short of sonorous.

Information, images, and previous years programs:

http://www.mononoawarefilm.com

Museek Music Video Festival

The Second International Music Video Festival MUSEEK [which became the first ever event of such kind in Russia] organized by Tour de Film and Loud Media comes back after a successful premiere season. 2008 brought us a vast number of things to remember: lots of great films, hundreds of entries from filmmakers like Marie Losier, Jodie Mack, Clay Lipsky, Keith Schofield and Markus Wambsganss; stunning programs which included retrospective of works by Michel Gondry, a documentary on Sonic Youth, reels from our friends moves [Manchester / UK] and International Short Film Festival in Lille [Lille / France]; still on going tour which already brought the festival to over ten Russian cities, Austria and France with USA, Germany, UK and Switzerland to come; fantastic reviews, competent jury and happy audience. But what 2009 will bring us?

This year we are going to make it all even bigger: live audiovisual shows, concerts, DJs, specials, curated programs and films of all kinds; greater festival’s invasion in Saint-Petersburg and extended tour network. And to make our ideas come true — we need your help and support. We are not asking for money — we’d rather get your terrific works submitted, fantastic ideas, curated programs, propositions for cooperation and advises.
We are open to all works show the interaction of video and audio, films that challenge popular and commercial model of music video. No matter where, how, for whom and when you’ve made it. If it’s really interesting — we’ll screen it. Challenge your fate and try to take the place of Andre Maat & Henk Loorbach [our last year’s winners] and win our prizes which will be decided soon.

We are waiting for your works till September 1st.

Delivery address:
MUSEEK
Alexei Dmitriev
Bolshevikov 8-1-1
193231 Saint-Petersburg
Russia

URL: www.museekfestival.ru

INVIDEO

19th International Exhibition of Video and Cinema Beyond
11-15 November 2009

Organized since 1990 by A.I.A.C.E. in Milan, INVIDEO has established itself as the most important Italian event in the field of experimental and art video. INVIDEO is a special project of Lombardy Region supported by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Milan's Province, Milan's Municipality and EUNIC. Its main activities are:
- Organization of one-week exhibition at the prestigious Spazio Oberdan in Milan (Italy), where visitors can find the best selection of international and Italian experimental production in film and video;
- the setting up of a public video library, the largest in Italy to date, with more than 800 works, thanks to the acquisition year after year of the most meaningful experimental and art videos;
- promotion of the video artists, thanks to worldwide liaison with festivals and institutions.

Regulations
INVIDEO next edition will take place at Spazio Oberdan in Milan (Italy), Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, from 11th to 15th November 2009.
1. Entry requirements:
- no registration fee required;
- exhibition concerns every genre (video art, experimental documentaries, found footage, video dance, music video, theatre video, experimental animation, etc…) but fictional works, produced in the last 3 years (2007-2009);
- no length limit;
- screening formats: 35mm, 16mm, DigiBeta Pal or Beta SP Pal (16/9 non-anamorphic or 4/3) and Minidv. Selected films will be requested in the screening format specified on their entry form;
- it’s possible to submit more than 1 work;
- every work must be accompanied by its fully completed call for competition entry form (anticipated by e-mail) and by the following documentation: synopsis, technical fact sheet, videomaker's bio-filmography/c.v. (with date and place of birth), CD with images of the video in jpg format/300 dpi;
- works previously rejected won’t be considered;
- preview copies won't be sent back;
- DVD preview copies, entries and materials must get to our office by June 25 th 2009 ;
- preview copies must be sent without charge for INVIDEO; therefore, if you ship by mail specify "no commercial value - for cultural purposes"; by EMS (DHL, Federal Express, UPS...) declared custom value must be less than 5 € or US$ 5 to:

AIACE/INVIDEO
c/o Fabbrica del Vapore
Via Procaccini 4
20154 Milan, ITALY

Entry form

Urbanity (deadline June 30, 2009)
As part of a collaborative exhibition with Truck Gallery, the CSIF invites media arts submissions based on the theme of Urbanity.  This project is intended to explore the facets of the city – as you define it.  In keeping with our mandate, works submitted should use celluloid in either the production or post production stage – Super 8, 16mm or 35mm. This is an international call, open to any media artist working with film and urban themes.

This project coincides with a residency in Truck Gallery’s TR:AFICC (Temporary Residents; Artists For Innovative Contemporary Culture) Project – where an artist literally labors in the urban environment and their studio is the epitome of urban life: the vehicle.  The Camper (and the resident artist it encloses) will travel Calgary for the month of September, creating film-based work.  CSIF and Truck will host weekly screenings during that month, with a selection of works from this call.  Each night of screenings will take place in a different suburban location around the city and incorporate the guerilla, outdoor screening nature of the camper with the essence of this themed call.  Join us in exploring our city, your city and everything in between.

Eligibility

- Media artworks with some use of celluloid (8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm)
- Under 30min in length
- Incorporate the theme of Urbanity in some way.

Please find Submissions forms at www.csif.org

To submit, send a DVD preview (NTSC, DVD Region 1 format) and completed submission form to the CSIF
before the deadline of June 30, 2009. Label the DVD clearly with the title, name of filmmaker and running time. No
entry fee is required, but the DVD will not be returned unless you enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope.

The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers
Urbanity Call - c/o Melanie Wilmink
Bldg. J2, 2711 Battleford Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta  T3E 7L4
Canada