The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) has teamed up with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (A2SO) for a creative and collaborative competition for 2010: Sight & Sound.

The competition consists of filmmakers visually "scoring" one of three winning musical compositions, as determined by the A2SO, created by students from the University of Michigan School of Music. The top rated video piece for each of the three compositions, as selected by the AAFF, will screen at the 48th Ann Arbor Film Festival on Sunday evening, March 28, 2010. The final overall best rated piece will be performed live by the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra on April 24, 2010 with the video projected simultaneously on the big screen at the historic Michigan Theater.

Call for Submissions and Recommendations for new LUX/ Light Industry Publication
Deadline: 26 February 2010

Artists' Film and Video: An Anthology of New Writing is a forthcoming publication collecting the best new international writing on and about artists' film and video, published by LUX, London and Light Industry, New York.

Inspired by Live Art Development Agency's 'Live Art Almanac', 'Artists' Film and Video: An Anthology of New Writing' will collect recent writing on and about international artists' moving image in all of its forms - including but not limited to essays, interviews, reviews, news stories, obituaries, commentaries, artists' writings, manifestos, letters, emails, rants, etc. The publication aims to be non-partisan in its approach, capturing the breadth and diversity of perspectives in this area of practice.

We are seeking submissions and recommendations for material now. What have you seen in the last two years (2008-2009) that you feel has captured or reflected on issues and debates which have currency in contemporary artists' film and video? We are primarily looking for writing that has been published or circulated in the past two years, but will consider unpublished/undistributed writing as well. What is important is that the pieces be thoughtful, engaging contributions to discourse in this area. We are interested in things you have read, but also that you have written, the only limit is that texts should be under 5,000 words in length. Although the publication will be in English, we are also interested in texts in translation.

The collection will be a text-only print-on-demand book, and it will be sold at cost-price (to cover printing and distribution). We are therefore unable to pay fees for contributions. The goal is ultimately to disseminate information and promote new writing and writers.

The selection for Artists' Film and Video: An Anthology of New Writing will be be made jointly by LUX, London and Light Industry, New York, and the book will be published in Summer 2010.

To send a recommendation or submission please email anthology@lux.org.uk with the following information:

• title
• author
• where published
• publication date
• a short statement as to why you consider the recommendation to be appropriate for the collection

If possible, include an electronic version of the text, ideally in Word or other text format.

We will seek permissions from authors and publishers prior to publication.

Deadline for submissions is 26 February 2010.

LUX is a UK-based arts agency which explores ideas around artists' moving image practice through exhibition, distribution, publishing, education and research. www.lux.org.uk

Light Industry is a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. www.lightindustry.org

CologneOFF VI - Let’s Celebrate!!
Deadline: Monday, 5 April 2010

In 2010, CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival is celebrating its 5th anniversary - a good reason to try the new festival concept as a networked festival, including a networked jury, networked contributions and a series of networked screenings between September and December 2010 and beyond.

CologneOFF - founded in 2006 by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne as a new type of film and video festival dedicated to art forms of film and video in a global context - is following a successful concept of a festival without a static location of its own. It does not last just 2 or 3 days a year, but is all the year everyday 24 hours available to the audience online and simultaneouslöy via physical screenings in cooperation with partner festivals.

This independance of availabliity on one hand, and dependance on networking partners makes CologneOFF most attractive not only o the audience, but basically also to the participating artists/directors and their films and videos due to a lasting promotion, confidence and trust.

We want you!
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- Douglas Adams
Directors Lounge 2010 on February 11 - 21, Berlin
Deadline: Jan 10th 2010

• You would like to show your work at the Directors Lounge ?

• Great. First, submit your work with this form http://directorslounge.net/submit_form.html (required). Feel free to mail us additional infos along with a few words about your person. To decide if we would like to present your work we will need a viewing-copy, preferably a DVD-compatible mpeg.

• We welcome proposals, concepts, any kind of input but please understand
that we may not consider submissions for the show in february after the 10th of January.
Several follow-ups are in the pipeline and we encourage you to get in touch with us.

• Directors Lounge is a non-profit, zero-budget-project offering all shows free of charge. Consequently, we will not pay any charge nor are we able to support any concept financially.

http://directorslounge.net/submit.html
http://directorslounge.net/submit_form.html
contact: dl@directorslounge.net

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• prologue

Directors Lounge started in 2005 as an experiment, a relaxed space for filmmakers, videoartists and everybody interested in experimental forms of cinema and videoart, during The Berlin International Film Festival. Directors Lounge functioned as a hideaway, a meeting point and also as a starting point for new creative collaborations.

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