Calls for entries

  • BWater's Call For Experimental Animation

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    BE WATER MY FRIEND

    Empty your mind, be formless, like water... Bruce Lee's advice applies to our vision of cinema.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Deadline: 

    Friday, November 15, 2024 (All day)
  • Singletary Center Visual Music Festival

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    SCFA Visual Music Festival 2025 @ The University of Kentucky

    The Singletary Center presents the inaugural Visual Music Festival in the SCFA Recital Hall.  Join us for a day of dynamic expressions of abstract art featuring a curated program of multimedia works from an international collection of contemporary artists. Experience the harmonies of light and sound as we explore what goes on in the mind while listening to music!

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, December 15, 2024 (All day)
  • Animate OPEN: call for submissions

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    Animate Projects is on the hunt for single screen, experimental animation, made by artists and animators based anywhere in the world. The work should broadly reflect or respond to the world today – community, activism, protest – urging us to become agents of a future, better world.

    The Animate OPEN is a partnership between Animate Projects and QUAD, Derby. The exhibition will launch in February 2025, as part of QUAD’s current programme, New Worlds, New Discoveries. We also plan to screen the works with other partners, in cinema and gallery spaces.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Tuesday, October 15, 2024 (All day)
  • Underneath the Floorboards - Autumn deadline

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    For Underneath the Floorboards' 10th Edition we will be continue our online event, which will be screened for a two weeks by our online platform: https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ which screens worldwide and got over ten thousand views last time around, and this time we're aiming for more.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Monday, September 30, 2024 (All day)
  • Artifact Small Format Film Festival 2025

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    The Artifact Small Format Film Festival (formerly the $100 Film Festival) is Calgary’s oldest film festival, and one of the few remaining festivals to project Super 8 and 16mm films.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Thursday, October 31, 2024 (All day)
  • Open Call for Moving Image Artists: Silent Video Art Project

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    We are seeking creative moving image artists to participate in an exciting new project!
    This unique opportunity invites you to create a short video art piece without sound.
    The visuals you produce will be played along an immersive sound-walk installation, created by an artist that collaborated with the movement Worldwide Friends, a nonprofit organization promoting nature protection, peace oriented activities, friendship, and international understanding among people.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Deadline: 

    Friday, September 27, 2024 (All day)
  • New York City Independent Film Festival 2025 - Experimental Section - Call For Entries

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    The New York City Independent Film Festival - Experimental Section is now accepting submissions for its 17th edition.

    The festival screens in central Manhattan (Times Square) and welcomes work by artists of all nations.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Saturday, November 30, 2024 (All day)
  • Wide Open Experimental Film Festival 2025 Call for Submissions

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    The Wide Open Experimental Film Festival call for submissions is open for the 2025 season! 

    We’re looking for anything that fits the broad, diverse definitions of experimental or avant-garde cinema, from lyrical to collage to structural to expanded cinema. Your film might include visual experimentation, it might be process-oriented, it might provoke visceral reactions. If it’s thought-provoking, mind-boggling, and eye-opening, we’d love to see it.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Saturday, November 30, 2024 (All day)
  • Moving Waters

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    OPEN CALL - submit your short SILENT films about Water to be screened as part of an exhibition in Cornwall, UK, in October 2024.

    Moving Waters (artists moving image on the theme of Water): Exhibition dates: 10/11/12 + 17/18/19 October

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, September 1, 2024 (All day)
  • Experiments in Cinema v20.0 now seeking submissions

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    Experiments in Cinema v20.0 call for submissions!!

    Basement Films’ annual international film festival is proud to announce our call for submissions for our next edition of Experiments in Cinema v20.0 (April 16-20, 2025). EIC will take place at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, New Mexico and will consist of film screenings, lectures, special curated programs, live cinema events as well as workshops.

    Submission fees: 

    Fees charged - Waiver available

    Deadline: 

    Friday, November 1, 2024 (All day)

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