1st Annual MIY (Make It Yourself) Contest: The 60 Second Hand Job Presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Contest Opens: May 5, 2010 – Closing Deadline June 5, 2010
Video Pool is accepting submissions for our juried 1st Annual MIY Contest - The 60 Second Hand Job. We are seeking submission of video made by using a hand held camera, is one minute in duration, and is experimental. The call is open to local, national and international video artists. The submitted videos will be judged on artistic merit and innovation by our amazing panel of artists, and they will be exhibited online.
Video Pool Media Arts Centre is a nonprofit artist-run and media production centre dedicated to independent video, audio and computer-integrated multimedia production, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
PRIZES: First Prize is $500.00 CAD and inclusion in Video Pool's Movie-oke screening and fundraising event June 12, 2010 in fabulous downtown Winnipeg. Nine Runner-Up videos will be selected and these videos will be included in a screening at Video Pool's Movie-oke fund-raising event; each of the Runner-Up artists will receive a $50.00 CAD screening fee.
JURORS
Noam Gonick(RCA) investigates identities including Winnipeg street gangs, queer hippie cults, ravers, TV psychics, stockbrokers and prison semaphore through photography, film, TV and installation. His films have been presented at the Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals. Gonick’s art has also been exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery and MOCCA at Nuit Blanche. His works are represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Canada.
Deirdre Logue’s film, video and installations focus on self-presentational discourse and the body. Logue’s recent projects include Enlightened Nonsense, 10 short performance films about repetition and Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes, a12 channel self-portrait. Recent solo exhibitions were presented at Oakville Galleries, the Images Festival – awarded Best Installation and Best of the Festival – the Berlin International Film Festival, Beyond/In Western New York and at articule in Montreal. She was a founding member of Media City in Windsor, the Executive Director of the Images Festival, the Executive Director of the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre and is currently the Development Director at Vtape.
Darryl Nepinak (Saulteaux) works at the Ndinawe Youth Resource centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He curated INDIANPEG: Shorts from Winnipeg Aboriginal Filmmakers at the 2006 Gimli Film Festival. Nepinak is the co-founder of Indie ‘N Film/Video Collective and the treasurer of Urban Shaman Gallery. He lived in Gisborne, New Zealand for 10 months in 2004, where he directed a documentary about the 30-year history of Te Ora Hou Aotearoa, a Maori youth organization, and mentored Maori teens in video production. Nepinak learned video production through the NSI Aboriginal Youth Pilot Project and the Aboriginal Broadcasting Training Initiative of the Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Only online submissions will be accepted. Videos longer than one minute will be automatically disqualified.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- video(s) must be made with a hand-held camera and be 60 seconds in length or under
- an online submission form includes a $10.00* entry fee payable by PayPal
*Canadian Residents must include GST to their submission fee for a total of $10.50
- artists may submit more than one work, but must submit a form per each entry and pay the $10.00 entry fee for each work submitted
- all entry fees are non-refundable
Please visit http://www.videopool.org to enter!
NOTIFICATION OF RESULTS
Notification of results will take place live and by email on June 12, 2010.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Przemek Pyszczek, Programming Coordinator
Video Pool Media Arts Centre
300-100 Arthur St
Winnipeg MB R3B 1H3
vpprogramming@videopool.org
Video Pool acknowledges the generous support of our funders:
Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council
The Province of Manitoba, Canadian Heritage, W.H. & S.E. Loewen Foundation,
The Winnipeg Foundation, The Thomas Sill Foundation, and the NFB.