Calls for entries

  • Experimental Loop 2026

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    Experimental Loop 2026
    International Video Art Festival — New York

    This special edition will focus exclusively on works created in 16mm format.

    A unique opportunity to exhibit your work in New York City, on Governors Island, during Fall 2026 — in collaboration with the New York Latin American Art Triennial (NYLAAT) @nylaat_org | Sponsored by Toroide Foundation @toroide.foundation

    Application period
    July 1 – September 30, 2025
    Application Fee: $0
    Results Announcement: March 1, 2026

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    New York, United States

    Deadline: 

    Tuesday, September 30, 2025 (All day)
  • Call for submissions - VIDEOAKTION #6

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    Call for submissions
    VIDEOAKTION #6

    VIDEOAKTION is a two-day screening event where the latest developments in experiments with moving images will be presented and discussed. The next VIDEOAKTION will take place in October 2025 at Raum für drastische Maßnahmen in Berlin.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Berlin , Germany

    Deadline: 

    Thursday, August 7, 2025 (All day)
  • Open Call: Skin in the Game

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    Skin in the Game is a group exhibition, screening, and risograph poetry collection, exploring what it means to put your body—your real, pulsing, breakable body—on the line. In love. In labor. In protest. In performance.

    The works in this show will speak from the surface of the skin and the space just beneath it: the site of contact, vulnerability, memory, and commitment.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Brooklyn, United States

    Deadline: 

    Friday, August 1, 2025 (All day)
  • Invisible Load

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    Call for Video Screening

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Istanbul, Turkey

    Deadline: 

    Monday, September 1, 2025 (All day)
  • Kinesthetic Cinema - Open Call for Interactive Films/Videos/Performative Media

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    We are seeking submissions of "kinesthetic" or, interactive media that invites audiences to kinesthetically engage and/or participate beyond a single-channel theater-viewing experience. This open call welcomes film, video, and/or performance works that prompt or engage the viewer kinesthetically—through spoken word, sound, song, gesture, or full-body movement.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Columbus, United States

    Deadline: 

    Monday, September 1, 2025 (All day)
  • 64th Ann Arbor Film Festival

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    Call for Entries for the 64th Ann Arbor Film Festival opens July 1 and runs through September 30, 2025.

    The 64th Ann Arbor Film Festival will take place in person March 24–29, 2026, with Awards Programs online March 30 - April 13.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Ann Arbor, United States

    Deadline: 

    Tuesday, September 30, 2025 (All day)
  • Call for Submissions: Lives on Fire

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    Putting together a reading/short film program for my friend River Selby and their forthcoming memoir: Hotshot: A Life on Fire. 

    George Saunders describes the book “A beautiful reflection on justice, the environment, the self, and much more.” 

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    BROOKLYN, United States

    Deadline: 

    Saturday, July 19, 2025 (All day)
  • Proceso De Error - Festival Internacional De Video Experimental 2025

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    PROCESO DE ERROR is a non-competitive international festival focused on experimental video. Since 2014, it has taken place in Valparaíso, Chile, with screenings held in cinemas, museums, cultural venues, on a boat over the sea, and in various international locations.Organized by INVE, Experimental Arts Platform — a creative, horizontal space grounded in mutual support — the festival embodies a collaborative spirit. Its aim is to bring these types of works closer to the general public, as well as to creators, thinkers, and enthusiasts of cinema and expanded arts.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Valparaíso, Chile

    Deadline: 

    Tuesday, July 15, 2025 (All day)
  • Altered Images Festival 2025 - Call for Artists

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    CALL FOR ARTISTS
    Deadline: 15th August 2025
    Event Date: TBC | Location: London

    Altered Images is a platform for experimental film, video art, installations, and live music. We're inviting visionary artists with a love for innovation and collaboration to submit their proposals and be part of our future events.

    This open call is for:

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    London, United Kingdom

    Deadline: 

    Friday, August 15, 2025 (All day)
  • Like a fish to water: 16mm film residency in Kerala, India

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    This 10 day residency will see participants delving into the medium of b/w 16mm film hands-on, with the outcome of making their own analog black and white motion-picture experimental short films. 

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Kerala, India

    Deadline: 

    Thursday, July 10, 2025 (All day)

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