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World Cinema Carnival 2023: A Cinematic Odyssey Beyond Conventions

Welcome to the mesmerising realm of World Cinema Carnival, a digital spectacle set to ignite your senses from December 26th to 29th, 2023. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of moving images, where the unconventional converges with the avant-garde, and cinematic boundaries dissolve into a kaleidoscope of creativity.
Dates:
Tuesday, December 26, 2023 (All day) to Friday, December 29, 2023 (All day)
The 10th West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival returns this spring for its 10th edition for a two-day event on April 19 & 20, 2024. We’re looking for unique, boundary-pushing works in video, animation, new- media, performance and film. Send us your newest work!

Deadline for entries is March 8, 2024.

• $8 per entry • Students and Young Filmmakers: Free (Students must include valid student ID along with submission, or send separately to [email protected])
Deadline:
Friday, March 8, 2024 (All day)
Copyright Infringement is your Best Entertainment Value

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUEFrom the era of production to that of post-production?

Hito Steyerl in her lecture The Flood of Rights, speaks of the importance of "Circulationism", as a form of manifesto which tends to no longer produce but to organize and reconnect existing systems through hacking, decoding and reconstruction by operating within their structure.
Dates:
Saturday, December 16, 2023 - 20:00
Venue:
D.Dal - Hybrid Art Space - Marseille, France
Augmented cinema - sound compositions for experimental cinema

Based on experimental films, Film & Music places particular emphasis on musical composition and sound.

The evening features experimental films with a technological and electronic dimension. These films also show how social issues in countries such as Austria, China and Germany influence sound composition.
Dates:
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 18:00
Venue:
GMEM - Centre national de création musicale - Marseille, France
40 ACRES: Weeksville

Sandy Williams IV’s photo and video installation documents 40 ACRES: Weeksville, a multilayered public performance that took place in the sky above Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Juneteenth 2023. A skywriter traced the borders of the historic Weeksville community—an area 492.72 acres in total—in the sky to honor the legacy of one of the first recognized free Black communities in the country, which occupied the location from 1838 to around 1930.
Dates:
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 18:00 to Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 18:00
Venue:
Telematic Gallery - San Francisco, United States
Artist in Residence Opportunity at UCLA Film & TV Archive

he UCLA Film & Television Archive is delighted to announce its inaugural artist-in-residence program that will host an emerging artist for two weeks to activate the Archive’s collection in their artistic practice. The program will provide the artist with the time and support necessary to access and work with the Archive’s unique resources, as well as reach new audiences and make new connections with Los Angeles’ cultural community.
Deadline:
Monday, January 8, 2024 - 21:00
World Cinema Carnival 2024: Final Open Call

Embark on a cinematic odyssey with World Cinema Carnival – an exhibitory flux of moving images celebrating the boundless creativity of filmmakers, producers, animators, video artists, and researchers.

Curatorial Philosophy: Pushing Boundaries and Challenging Conventions

At World Cinema Carnival, we transcend limitations, embracing new contextual and conceptual dimensions, and redefining the very essence of cinema. Our core philosophy centers on creating a space for experimentation, innovation, and the celebration of diverse perspectives.
Deadline:
Sunday, December 31, 2023 (All day)

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1 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 40 ACRES: Weeksville (Exhibitions) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Sans Souci's 21st Annual Call for Entries - Open Call: Dance Film Submissions (Calls for entries) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions)	2 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 40 ACRES: Weeksville (Exhibitions) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions)	3 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 40 ACRES: Weeksville (Exhibitions) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) IN SITU: Clint Enns, Jackie Gallant & Eduardo Menz (Screenings)	4 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 40 ACRES: Weeksville (Exhibitions) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions)	5 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 40 ACRES: Weeksville (Exhibitions) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Visual Studies Workshop - Project Space Residency 2024 (Calls for entries)	6 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 40 ACRES: Weeksville (Exhibitions) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Together: Overlapping Histories, Friendships & Dialogues (Screenings) Other Cinema - Susan Stryker: Trans Shorts (Screenings)	7 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Late Deadline Open for Underneath the Floorboards (Calls for entries)
8 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Anto(n) Astudillo: To become the person I have always been (Screenings)	9 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions)	10 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Something Spilled (Screenings)	11 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Images Festival Presents the 37th Edition: Rehearsing Refusal (Festivals)	12 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Images Festival Presents the 37th Edition: Rehearsing Refusal (Festivals)	13 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Images Festival Presents the 37th Edition: Rehearsing Refusal (Festivals)	14 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Images Festival Presents the 37th Edition: Rehearsing Refusal (Festivals) Marienbad Film Festival 2024 - Open Call (Calls for entries)
15 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Images Festival Presents the 37th Edition: Rehearsing Refusal (Festivals) WNDX 2024 Call for Entries (Calls for entries) Alternative Film Video 2024 - Call for Submissions (Calls for entries) Wandering Residency #2 (Calls for entries) Jen Liu: The Land at the Bottom of the Sea (Screenings)	16 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Images Festival Presents the 37th Edition: Rehearsing Refusal (Festivals) Altered Images Vol.V (Calls for entries)	17 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) permanente.ciclo - experimental arts festival (Calls for entries) Confessional: The wild autobiography of Teo Hernández (Screenings)	18 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Xcèntric: Homecomings, by Dirk de Bruyn (Screenings) South Korean Experimental Cinema (Screenings) Strategies for Discovering Cinema: Helga Fanderl / Nicky Hamlyn (Screenings) Refle-x-périmental 10: Chaos/Cosmos/Corps : The cinema of Ed Emshwiller (Screenings)	19 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Martin Moolhuijsen: Forms of Motion (Exhibitions) R(a/u)pture: Horan, Coderre/Arsenault, Grandrieux, Mondini-VanLoo, Chao, Pierce, Faroqhi (Screenings)	20 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Martin Moolhuijsen: Forms of Motion (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) 8th Festival ECRÃ - Call for entries (Calls for entries)	21 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) el otro aquí (the other here) (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) No Future - Short films about Tomorrow (Screenings)
22 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) Underneath the Floorboards - 9th Edition Screening (Festivals)	23 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) Underneath the Floorboards - 9th Edition Screening (Festivals) 2024 New Year/New Work Film Festival (Screenings) Scratch Projection: WHAT'S GOING ON? A selection of recent films (Screenings)	24 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) Underneath the Floorboards - 9th Edition Screening (Festivals)	25 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) Underneath the Floorboards - 9th Edition Screening (Festivals) Xcèntric: Michael Rudnick. Cinema in minature (Screenings) 2024 New Year/New Work Film Festival (Screenings)	26 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) Underneath the Floorboards - 9th Edition Screening (Festivals) 2024 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (Festivals)	27 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) Underneath the Floorboards - 9th Edition Screening (Festivals) 2024 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (Festivals)	28 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) Underneath the Floorboards - 9th Edition Screening (Festivals) 2024 Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (Festivals)
29 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) Underneath the Floorboards - 9th Edition Screening (Festivals)	30 Water and Ice - Pietro Gardoni (Screenings) 'Studio/Archive’ Explores Power of Photography (Exhibitions) totalmente rostro (Exhibitions) Reel to Reel -to JONAS MEKAS- BY Chihiro ITO (Exhibitions) Melting Walls - Volume One (Exhibitions) Collective Archival Landscapes (Exhibitions) Underneath the Floorboards - 9th Edition Screening (Festivals) CultureHub Re-Fest 2024 Open Call (Calls for entries) Laterale Film Festival 2024 call for entries (Calls for entries) An Evening with Eve Heller (Screenings)