The BFI 55th London Film Festival
12-27 October 2011
Deadline June 24th

The London Film Festival will present its annual weekend dedicated to avant-garde and artists’ film & video on 21-23 October 2011.

If you would like your work to be considered for the programme, please send preview copies as soon as possible or email details of works in progress.

There is no entry fee. Works must have been made within the last two years and should receive their UK theatrical premiere in the festival. Recent archival restorations may also be considered.

Please complete the online submission form and select the “artists’ film and video” category.

If preview materials are sent direct to the LFF office, please mark them clearly “for the attention of Mark Webber” and send notification by email to marina@markwebber.org.uk.

8th Experimental Film And Video Festival in SEOUL 2011 (EXiS 2011)

Annual international experimental film and video festival EXiS 2011 is waiting for your innovative film and videos! EXiS is the only one and the biggest premier showcase of experimental works in Korea.

Festival dates
Sep 1-7 2011, Seoul, Korea

Entry deadline
June 15, 2011 (Postmark)

What We Look for:
Experimental film or video work in any format and in length.

IN OUT Festival 2011
October 22-23 2011

This year’s edition of the IN OUT Festival has introduced several changes to the rules of submissions and awards. We encourage you to read the rules and the application form very carefully. The first change is about presentation of the videos in two sections during the Festival. The first section will be for those videos which used to be the only subject of the previous editions, which is videos exploring medium aesthetics and referring to the video and film concept as “photography enhanced” by the time dimension. The second section will be devoted to “visual narrations”, which doesn’t mean giving space to action movies or feature films. This new part of the festival wants to show works of artists who build wider and more complex forms of artistic expression based on the video-identity idea. The videos are then supposed to provide a powerful statement on issues that are fundamental for culture: “who I am, where I come from, where I am and where I am going to”. We hope that the statements will be formulated in a language of plain images and not abstract verbal notions. We also hope that the participating artists will choose to show works which put together the environment of contemporary media with the environment of their own domestic scene and also with their individual internal experience shown with forms referring to a structural movie. If a video is an internal screen for the imagination, then the pictures produced by a medium which has been purposefully and creatively damaged will give images of a pure structure of a video, and thus will be a metaphor of pure perceptual structure which will introduce their value by neighbouring with the world of various media experience.

Curator of the Festival: Michał Brzeizński