Chicago Filmmakers announces the call for entries for The 26th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival. Onion City will take place (tentatively) January 29 – February 1, 2015.

Onion City was founded in the 1980's by the Experimental Film Coalition and run by them for many years. Chicago Filmmakers assumed responsibility for the festival in 2001, and expanded the size and opened it up to video work as well as film. It is generally 8-10 programs over four days and features roughly 60-70 works from around the world. Aside from the competition programs, there are occasional special presentations of new or old films of note or guest presentations. Screenings take place at Chicago Filmmakers and other venues around mid-June.

The Experimental Film Workshop is organized by NISI MASA European Network of Young Cinema, under the frame of Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF), whose fifth edition will be held this year in between the 10th  and 14th of December. For the workshop, 2014 marks the third edition.

During the 10-day workshop (5th-14th December 2014) 25 international filmmakers and visual artists aged 18-35 will be guided by tutors and work on experimental filmmaking. Together, they will produce short film experiments that will be premiered on the very last day of the festival. The working method of the workshop is collaboration, reflection and sharing with fellow participants, with the aim of learning, exploring and developing creativity together. 

This year’s approach wishes to encourage and support the relationship between film, music and mapping, aiming to render obsolete the gap between the screen and the audience by making the whole process - from conception to screening - a great interactive experience for all those involved. 

San Francisco Cinematheque seeks submissions of recent films and videos for CROSSROADS 2015, the sixth manifestation of our annual film festival to be held April 10–12 at San Francisco's Victoria Theatre.CROSSROADS 2015 will showcase new film/video works by emerging and established filmmakers, including performance and works of “live cinema.” Cinematheque seeks submissions of compelling non-commercial, artist-made work of all genres and durations.

Inaugurated in 2010, CROSSROADS is the only major West Coast film festival dedicated exclusively to the exhibition of contemporary and historic avant-garde film and video work. Artists featured in previous years have included Malic Amalya, Stephanie Barber, Tommy Becker, Amanda Dawn Christie, Caryn Cline, Nathaniel Dorsky, Erin Espelie, Dale Hoyt, Ken Jacobs, Lawrence Jordan, Laida Lertxundi, Jeanne Liotta, Jodie Mack, Jesse Malmed, Jeremy Moss, Robert Nelson, Alee Peoples, Greg Pope, Ben Rivers, Michael Robinson, Margaret Rorison, Ken Paul Rosenthal, Ben Russell, Mónica Savirón, Scott Stark, Alexander Stewart, Makino Takashi, Robert Todd and Karen Yasinsky.

Field Broadcast and LUX are delighted to announce a new collaborative residency programme based at LUX in association with Field Broadcast's live broadcast programme. Proposals are invited from artists and curators to undertake a research-based residency within the LUX collection, Europe's largest collection of artists' film and video, leading to the creation of a live broadcast screening event during the residency period at LUX.

Founded in 1966, the LUX Collection represents over 6000 works by more than 1500 artists dating from the early twentieth century to the present day. Originally established with a policy of open access submission, the changing nature of the organisation and its acquisition policies over the decades have created an eclectic combination of well-known and near unseen works, spanning experimental film, performance, essay film through to contemporary digital video.