Lots of interesting opportunities and links below.
Catriona
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animate! newswire
17 March 2004
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animate! tv 2004 Call for Submissions
animate! tv is looking for new ideas.
We are commissioning another slate of personal projects for television, with running times of up to 6 minutes and production budgets between �5,000 and �20,000.
Send us a plan to scratch the world with unexpected tools. Or a playful proposition to surprise and stretch an audience. Above all, we are looking for projects fired by an irresistibly original idea that will challenge the boundaries of animation.
To submit a proposal to animate! tv 2004 you must be based in the UK and have some experience of experimental practice in film, video & digital media. Celluloid, tape and digital technologies are all acceptable, in pure or hybrid form.
Submission deadline (postmarked) Friday 30 April 2004.
http://www.animateonline.org/funding/ to read more and download a Proposal Pack.
http://www.animateonline.org/films/ check out all 66 animate! films commissioned to date.
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Render things visible
The annual \\international\media\art\award has announced this year's competition.
The major annual European prize for artist's video and media, based in Karlsruhe Germany, is requesting entries which explore their theme for 2004, 'inVISIBLE \\ art_science'.
>From medicine to astronomy, science has become the domain of technical imaging processes. Invisible worlds, from the microcosm to the macrocosm, are revealed by scientists who maintain the mission of art described by Paul Klee in 1920: �Art does not reproduce what is visible, but renders things visible.�
Entries to the award (for video, internet or gallery) should present evidence that, in the age of apparatus-driven perception, art and science are in fact converging cultural technologies with a common alphanumerical code.
Submission deadline (postmarked) 1 April 2004.
In 2000, with a competition theme of 'cITy', the award was won by Jonathan Hodgson's animate! film Feeling My Way.
http://www.swr.de/medienkunstpreis/en/ entry details for the 2004 award.
http://db.swr.de/imkp/IMKP.go?p_lw=e The Media Arts Archive with one-minute extracts from all of the 450 videos and interactive works nominated for the prize since 1992.
http://www.animateonline.org/features/0003.html Taking a Line for a Walk, the short essay accompanying Jonathan Hodgson's Feeling My Way's award in 2000, republished by animateonline.
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By design: film fashion art architecture
An international symposium at Tate Modern about the way cinema, architecture and fashion have collided, informed and energised one another for over a century.
The British Film Institute have just published a new catalogue 'Art & Design: A Source Book'. To mark the moment, the talks, screenings and discussions during this afternoon Tate + BFI event will interrogate the mobilised surfaces, spaces and images which define the experience and appearance of contemporary life.
Sunday 21 March 2004, 14.00�19.00.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/bydesign.htm
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Festival lists & information
We are often asked to recommend sources of information about international animation and short-film festivals. Below are the websites we like best. Please send us details of any other sources you find useful and reliable.
Animation World Network a large updating database of events around the world ranging from heavy-industry to 'independent':
http://events.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=All&sort=sdate
Britfilms the database run by the British Council covering 600 world-wide film festivals, with useful advanced search including 'animation':
http://www.britfilms.com/festivals/
Withoutabox an amazingly customisable search of details for 1,300 international festivals. Withoutabox also offer a unique and free online festival submission service - fill in their 'universal' entry form just once and then you can simply click-submit your film (plus online press pack) to more than 100 'partner' (predominantly North American) festivals:
http://www.withoutabox.com/
LUX a monthly online newswire which includes listings of upcoming world-wide events (and much other good stuff) for film video & digital artists. LUX is the UK's not-for-profit organisation for artists' film & video - they house the animate! film collection. You can subscribe to their newswire as an e-newsletter:
http://www.lux.org.uk/newswire.html
Flicker includes an excellent list of festivals, both North American and rest-of-world, which celebrate avant garde and 'alternative' film & video:
http://www.hi-beam.net/links.html#Festivals
Idlevice Matt Hulse, filmmaker, offers a lively list on his website of Eurocentric but vitally personal Film Festival Recommendations:
http://www.idlevice.com/ Matt's website of projects, info and initiatives
http://www.animateonline.org/films/halflife/ his second animate! commission Half Life, currently in production.
http://www221.pair.com/mhulse/lobby.html Matt takes a discursive scroll through the lobby of his first animate! film Hotel Central.
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Pulse digital shorts funding
Pulse is the low-budget digital shorts scheme for new talent in the London region, now in its third year.
Film London (with UK Film Council) is again seeking proposals for digitally-produced narrative films, between 1 and 10 minutes in length, with a budget range of �2,000 - �10,000 depending on the nature of the project.
The scheme supports new filmmakers whose ambition is to tell stories in groundbreaking ways. Films can be of any genre, including those within fiction, animation, documentary, as well as projects that cut across these categories.
Submissions deadline 26 March 2004.
http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/C2B/document_tree/ViewADocument.asp?ID=4&CatID=14 for application pack.
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3 animate!-makers win fellowships
John Parry, who made Salvage on animate! in 1998, has just returned from a two-and-a-half month International Artists Fellowship based in the artist-in-residence laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. His project, using a 'limited' still style of animation, created a trailer for High Noon inspired by the use of images of Gary Cooper in posters for Solidarity. Sponsors: Arts Council England, British Council, Visiting Arts and Triangle Trust.
http://csw.art.pl/a-i-r/index_e.html the artist-in-residence laboratory at Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
http://csw.art.pl/a-i-r/a-i-r/Parry_John_e.html summary of John Parry's project.
http://www.animateonline.org/films/salvage/ his animate! film Salvage.
Daniel Saul has started a three-month Taiwan-UK Artists Fellowship for digital arts in Taiwan. Living in Taipei Artist Village, he is pursuing his use of montage and collage to break the surface of film and reveal secrets behind the photo-reality. He completed his animate! film The Nuclear Train in 2002. Sponsors: Arts Council England, Visiting Arts, National Endowment for Culture & Arts and British Council Taipei.
http://www.tav.tcg.gov.tw/ Taipei Artist Village.
http://www.tav.tcg.gov.tw/eng-artist-01.asp?id=51 summary of Dan Saul's project
http://www.animateonline.org/films/nucleartrain/ his animate! film The Nuclear Train.
In January this year Robert Bradbrook was awarded the UK Arts Foundation's first ever Fellowship for Animation. Robert's animate! work End of Restriction in 1994 was one of the earliest digital desktop films to be more concerned with 'emotional' narrative than pixel-fetish. He went on to make Home Road Movies for Channel 4 and Arts Council Lottery, which won more international festival awards in 2002 than any other British short film.
The Quay Brothers, makers of The Phantom Museum last year on animate!, received a special Arts Foundation award alongside Robert's Fellowship. The other two nominees, Daniel Saul and Tim Webb, have also made films on animate!.
http://www.animateonline.org/films/endofrestriction/ Robert Bradbrook's animate! film End of Restriction.
http://www.bradfilms.co.uk/ his website for Home Road Movies.
http://www.animateonline.org/films/phantommuseum/ The Quay Brothers animate! film The Phantom Museum.
Postcript: there is just time to apply for a ROSL Visual Arts Travel Scholarship 2004. �3,000 is offered for a UK artist (under 35y/o) to spend up to four weeks in a Commonwealth country of their choice.
Deadline 31 March 2004.
http://www.roslarts.co.uk
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BBCi wants one-minute movies
The BBC wants your one-minute film for publication on their BBCi website.
No prizes, no money, no theme, no specific genre, no prescribed techniques. Just very basic advice, tips, hints - plus, if your film is selected, an online audience.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/oneminutemovies/
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All Roads film project
The US National Geographic Society Project is offering seed grants to assist world-wide "indigenous or minority-culture filmmakers" to create new projects.
One of the unexpected treats of last year's globetrotting RESFEST was the 'Off the Map', the most geographically-grounded programme in the digitally-orientated festival. Now the programme's sponsor National Geographic is going one stage further with the All Roads Film Project. This includes the All Roads Film Festival (with master classes and workshops) in Los Angeles and Washington this October, plus ten seed grants of $3,000 awarded during 2004 (with the possibility of an All Roads Fellowship of up to $100,000 next year to complete a seeded project).
In both instances National Geographic are seeking animation, music videos, features, documentaries and shorts with an international focus, in which "indigenous and minority-culture storytellers bring their lives, experiences and cultures to new audiences."
Festival submission deadline 31 May 2004. Seed grants are awarded on a rolling basis.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/allroads for festival entry form or seed grant application.
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onedotzero8 submission deadline extended
Selection starts shortly for onedotzero8, the eighth edition of the London-based world-touring pixel-fest. Chris Shepherd's animate! work Dad's Dead was one of the star films in last year's global circumnavigation.
Submission deadline extended to 19 March 2004.
http://www.onedotzero.com/ for submission form
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NOW! the movie
World filmmakers are asked to contribute to the first ever co-operatively made and collectively owned cinema feature film, an intensely formed work about sustainable development.
Anyone anywhere can register, shoot and then submit digital footage for possible inclusion in "a powerful and inspiring snapshot view of the world today as seen through the eyes of a global network of film-makers". The UK-based project is motivated by classics like Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) through to Baraka (1992) and The Qatsi Trilogy, but will use audio-visual editing and sampling techniques to form the work. The soundtrack will be produced by Matt Black of Coldcut.
Preferred format is MiniDV although others can be handled (and digital files can be submitted online for preview). The production team hope to receive most material by June/July 2004. All makers of footage incorporated into NOW! will profit-share in the outcome.
http://www.nowthemovie.com/ to read more and register.
http://www.25hrs.org/vertov.htm an excellent essay by Marko Daniel on Dziga Vertov and his seminal 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera.
http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/ a site for many of the epic 'condition of man' feature films in 'the spirit of Baraka'.
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Turbulence net.art competition
Five net.art commissions for the Turbulence website are offered in a juried international competition.
Turbulence (New Radio and Performing Arts Inc) has been supporting artists' exploration of the internet since 1996. Currently, together with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, they are seeking five new projects "that will experiment with new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration and creativity, and engage the user as an active participant."
Proposed works may include the use of wireless devices such as cell phones and palm pilots to access and add to the experience of the net.art work. Each commission will be $5,000 (US).
Submission deadline 31 March 2004.
http://turbulence.org/ for submission details, and a resonant archive of interactive, thoughtful and provocative web-based art.
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This much is certain
A timely month-long event at the Royal College of Art about the significance of the document and the documentary in contemporary life and art.
The art exhibition, film programme, talks and online material deal with media control versus narrative construction and our inability to establish how much is certain any more. The rich line-up of films ranges from works by Peter Watkins, Mike Leigh and Nick Broomfield to Trinh T Minh-ha, Lenka Clayton and the Bureau of Inverse Technology, and includes Paul Bush's under-acknowledged 25-minute 'found-footage' masterpiece The Rumour of True Things.
This Much Is Certain runs until 4 April 2004.
http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/thismuchiscertain/
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ZEBRA poetry film award
Entries are requested for the second ZEBRA Poetry Film Award, a section of the Berlin 2004 Poetry Festival.
The ZEBRA Poetry Film Award takes place in Berlin 1 - 4 July 2004 and is probably the world's largest viewing forum for short films relating to poetry in terms of content, aesthetics or form. Entries must be produced after 1 January 2000 and demonstrate a clear connection to one or more poems. They can be screened at the forum on 35mm or BetaSP.
The winner of the first ZEBRA award in 2002 was Tim Webb's animate! film 15th February (previously his film won the 1995 London ICA Dick Award as "the most provocative, innovative and subversive short film of the year"). Tim is currently in production with his second animate! commission Mr. Price.
Submission deadline 31 March 2004.
http://www.zebra-award.org/en/info.html ZEBRA details and entry form.
http://www.animateonline.org/films/15thfebruary/ Tim Webb's first animate! film 15th February.
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Internet excursions
Texture mapping - a simple but uncanny and revealing online tool from Tate Modern. Make the pigment texture and depth jump to life in two Auerbach paintings as you move a light source around them.
http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/ptm/
Auto graffiti - Hektor may be under construction but you can still download the JPG stills, watch the MPG movie and read in the PDF pages how two Swiss guys lovingly developed their string-and-tackle-and-algorithm graffiti machine.
http://www.hektor.ch/
METABLAST - a deconstructed internet forum, nuclear comings and goings, superpowers, paranoia and Monaco font. Another work from Young-Hae Chang's Heavy Industries on the Seoul side of the north-south Korean border.
http://www.yhchang.com/METABLAST.html
We fail - but before they do, they send creepy Shockwave shudders through this surreal but grungy buddy-buddy journey.
http://www.wefail.com/
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