AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Rencontres Internationales

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
Until the 25th of August, 2008

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA

http://art-action.org

The 'Rencontres Internationales' will take place at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations in Paris in November 2008. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2009 and in Berlin in June 2009.

Those three events will propose an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers.

ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANISATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN FOR FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PROPOSALS, without any restriction of length or genre. All submissions are free, without limitation of geographical origin.

Film and video cycle (any film and video format)
* Video / Experimental video
* Fiction - short, medium and feature length
* Documentary, experimental documentary
* Experimental Film
* Animation

Multimedia cycle
* Video installation, multimedia installation
* Net art
* Multimedia performance, multimedia concert

Video and film submissions are received on DVD. ALL submissions are sent by postal mail, enclosed with a filled-in ONLINE ENTRY FORM, UNTIL THE 25th of AUGUST, 2008 (postmarked). Entry form and information regarding the 'Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid' are posted on our website http://art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm

PLEASE FORWARD this piece of information to creative organizations, art networks, production organizations, artists and filmmakers you are in contact with.

The 'Rencontres Internationales' offers more than a simple presentation of the works. They introduce an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify of their reflections and of their experiences, but also of artistic and cultural contexts that are often experiencing deep changes.

The 'Rencontres Internationales' reflects specificities and convergences of art practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and work out this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged.

The event aims at presenting those works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals. It wishes to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a demanding program opened to everyone.

Paris/Berlin/Madrid
In 2007, the 'Rencontres Internationales', which initially took place in Paris and Berlin, opened up to a third city: Madrid. This event now constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and different audiences. The venues in the three cities are in particular the Centre Pompidou and the Jeu de Paume national museum in Paris, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Reina Sofia national museum and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid.

The 'Rencontres Internationales' is a non commercial event without competition, supported by French, German, Spanish and international institutions http://art-action.org/fr_soutien.htm

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