id love to submit,
and i have a film available online for private viewing if you are
interested
IT'S A STRANGE WORLD
won the silver palm award at Mexico International Film Festival
independent film critic:
http://theindependentcritic.com/its_a_strange_world/
rogue cinema:
http://www.roguecinema.com/article2669.html
On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Mike wrote:
As someone who works with Dallas videofest, I do want to respond to
this, not necessarily to argue for inclusion in one or another
person's list of "good experimental festivals", but to say that I do
think the fest provides a very important regional opportunity to see
works made by artists working outside market driven contexts. I don't
know your relationship with the festival, Bernie, though I understand
you're in the region, but I think the selection process does meet much
of your criteria that does not pertain directly to film projection.
It's certainly true that videofest's primary focus isn't work made
with an experimental aesthetic approach, but that is certainly a
significant part of a wider focus that attempts to give exposure to
artists and individuals working with new and developing moving image
technologies (trying not to open a can of worms here as to what
constitutes "new and developing", but as an aside, there are some
exciting ways in which we're trying to engage the community in
celluloid based practice, including a super 8 race and hand-processing
workshops...)
To reference another recent thread, I also think the fest does a
pretty good job at accommodating individual artists in that it allows
online submissions and projects videos in a way that maintains quality
while utilizing technology that is widely available and accessible
(speaking specifically of the h.264 codec that was mentioned).
If nothing else, I hope that more people working in experimental/avant-
garde modes will consider submitting in the future. If there are
issues people have with how the fest runs or experiences that have
been had, whether positive or negative, I'd be curious to hear them,
as would Bart I'm sure (sorry if I'm making more work for you Bart),
offlist.
Mike Morris,
Dallas, Texas
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:05:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bernard Roddy <roddybp_at_yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Frameworks] EXPERIMENTAL film festivals???
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I propose the following:
1. Formal constraints: The references of work shown are not primarily to
narrative cinema or broadcast television but to the result of artist's
working
processes.
2. Programming constraints: The diversity of work screened
demonstrates a
commitment to risk and experiment in programming.
3. Format constraint: There's a clear commitment ot film projection.
4. Theoretical constraint: There's a familiarity with a history of
artists' work
in film that is motivated by theoretical concerns (and thus bears an
affinity
with some of video's history).
5. Compromise acknowledgement: The conditions of projection of work is
itself
acknowledged to be, in many cases, a compromise, a necessity for
promoting work
that, as often as not, was not intended for theatrical projection of
the kind it
is receiving.
That would begin my answer.
Bernie
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