Description
Images Festival Call for OFF SCREEN & LIVE Submissions is ongoing!
Images Festival is pleased to open the call for OFF SCREEN and LIVE submissions that accepts program and exhibition proposals for cinema screenings and gallery exhibitions on a rolling basis. Proposals will be reviewed in the summer and early fall over an extended period of planning as the festival’s program and presenting partnerships begin to take form.
Proposals received in one review cycle may not be conceptually complementary or logistically possible for the upcoming festival year. However, the removal of a fixed submission deadline allows Images to consider proposals in greater depth, assess capacity, and prepare to seek funding and partnerships to meaningfully support the realisation of the presentations.
ABOUT IMAGES FESTIVAL
Images Festival annually exhibits film and video installations, media-based performances, and online work alongside its ON SCREEN program of film and video works. For the OFF SCREEN and LIVE segments of the festival, Images partners with GTA-based galleries, production centres, and other organizations.
Images presents work that counters dominant mainstream narratives and provides alternative ways of thinking and seeing that expands the understanding of media art through programming and education-based initiatives.
Images Festival does not select films based on any particular themes, genres or aesthetic categories but selects moving image works that share formal and political sensibilities which emerge from recent critical discourses between contemporary art, cinema and media arts.
DATES
The 33rd edition of Images Festival will take place between April 16 to 22, 2020.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
ONGOING
GENERAL SUBMISSION CONSIDERATIONS
All works related to the moving image, interactive processes, expanded/live cinema, and digital media are eligible for entry.
Images Festival will consider recent works. Generally, this is defined as being made within the last three years, but we ask artists to use their best judgment on how to define what is recent and relevant.
Artists maintain copyright control.
SINGLE CHANNEL WORKS FOR PRESENTATION IN A CINEMA ARE NOT ELIGIBLE. These types of works can be submitted to our annual call for ON SCREEN submissions. ON SCREEN submissions submitted through our OFF SCREEN category will not be considered for review. If you have any questions about whether or not your project meets our mandate and capacity to exhibit (particularly for those which require a great deal of technical support and/or very large exhibition spaces), please do not hesitate to send us an email with any questions to submissions@imagesfestival.com
We encourage presenters to consider the power dynamics and ethics implicit in their work, particularly in the representation of the structurally marginalized, including racial, sexual, gendered minorities, and vulnerable persons.
SUBMISSION FEE
There is no entry fee; limit of 2 entries per person. If additional works are submitted, only the first two will be reviewed.
ARTIST FEES
Images Festival follows CARFAC guidelines for suggested artist payments. Please consult their fee schedule for exact details.
APPLICATIONS REQUIREMENTS
Please include the following material including links and/or images and your CV formatted as one PDF:
- A synopsis of the project (up to 350 words)
- Exhibition or performance history (if applicable)
- Documentation of the work (This may be in the form of video documentation, or high-resolution image files.)
- Detailed description of the technical requirements for presentation — please note whether the equipment must be sourced, or if it is supplied by the artist
- If available or applicable, include layout drawings and plans, space requirements (e.g. minimum sq ft needed), equipment needed, and shipping requirements.
- If available or applicable, please include a projected materials or production budget.
Please send a PDF file named in the following format (as applicable):
- OFF_Submission_YYYY.MM.DD_Name.pdf
- LIVE_Submission_YYYY.MM.DD_Name.pdf
- For example:
- OFF_Submission_2019.07.21_Joyce-Wieland.pdf
SUBMISSION PORTAL
Please prepare your documents in PDF format and email your project proposals to submissions@imagesfestival.com with the subject heading: OFF Screen Submission - [Name] / LIVE Submission - [Name]
More information here.
