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FAFF2011 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Wednesday 27th July 2011
Westgate Studios, Wakefield (UK)
FREE ENTRY

http://fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com/

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

WHAT: Open call for single-channel screen-based art; film, video, animation (no thematic criteria)

WHO: Anyone can submit to FAFF2011; all nationalities, all career levels including students

DURATION: 20 minutes maximum

FORMAT: Films should be supplied on DVD format. A film still (jpg at 300dpi) is also required.

LANGUAGE / SUBTITLES: Films with non-English dialogue do not have to have English subtitles but it is recommended.

COST: No submission or participation fee. Postage for postal submissions is payable by the applicant. Postal submission cannot be returned. Please note that only FAFF2011 is only able to notify successful applicants.

POSTAL SUBMISSIONS ONLY

DOWNLOAD FORM (PDF): http://bit.ly/FAFF2011

POSTAL ADDRESS: (Non-EU submissions: No commercial value, for cultural purposes)
FAO Alice Bradshaw, FAFF2011, Westgate Studios, 55 Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1BW, UK

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS (Receiving date not postmark date): 27th June 2011


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FAFF Programme

Friday 20th August 2010

Continued

Sai Hua Kuan (SG/UK)

Space Drawing No.5

Space Drawing No.5 was created in 2009 in Russia. Through the simplest yet most fundamental function of line – to divide, subtract, Space Drawing attempts to capture a moment of transitory energy.

www.collinsai.com

Sara Brannan (UK)

Work no.14

“I am using animation as an extension of my sculptural practice and I am using the medium to promote ideas that I am unable to do in conventional sculpture. I am shifting the location of the art object from being wholly material into the realms of digital art and in doing so I can play with form, movement and perception. The low-resolution DIY ethic of my practice is continued by using basic tools and equipment to produce the works.”

www.sarabrannan.blogspot.com

Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans (BE)

The Good Life (a guided tour)

The Good Life shows a guided tour through empty white gallery spaces. An exhibition is being built up, paintings are ready to be unpacked. A guide is accompanying a small audience and comments upon the art and the fantastic spaces in the museum. However, after a while the guide appears to be an estate agent who recommends a visionary architectural design (by architectural agency 51N4E), which will replace the museum with exclusive lofts.

www.nimk.nl

Tether / Grin & Slutsky (UK)

Grin & Slutsky

Soon, Grin & Slutsky will reveal the one thing that all people want to know…

www.tether.org.uk

Doplgenger (SRB)

Voices Gazes Traces

Medusa, one of the three sisters known as the Gorgons, was punished by given the destructive power to turn anyone who looked directly at her into stone. The piece Voices Gazes Traces as expanded cinema deals with feminist concept of writing here transposed to film medium. It is a study of the screen history and contemporary placement of ‘Woman as film Icon’.

www.doplgenger.org

Milk, Two Sugars (UK)

Cinefun

Bob Milner on Cinefun: “I became interested in the expressive qualities of the human voice during voice workshops I attended some years ago. Participants were encouraged to play with sound, in the way children seem to, before they learn to speak. We gurgled and chortled, made animal noises, called and crooned, and we communicated to each other using these nonsense sounds. Though we were sometimes in a darkened room where we could not ‘read’ each other’s facial expressions, we were able to convey emotion and meaning with these nonsensical noises. As a visual artist, I wondered if something as abstract as these sounds could be explored in visual imagery. How could I depict an energetic, joyous laugh, or a gut-wrenching, wailing sadness? Could frenzied, erratic lines convey wild cackling calls, or a soft smudgy line convey a gentle humming? I didn’t know then and I still don’t. Enjoy the film!”

www.milktwosugars.org

Paul Tarragó (UK)

The Badger Series Episodes 7 & 8

The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children’s entertainer.

www.paultarrago.net


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FAFF Programme

Friday 20th August 2010

Sam Holden (UK)

70 still frames and 5 minutes 50 seconds

70 still frames and 5 minutes 50 seconds of video Using a digital SLR, image capture software and a hidden video camera 70 Still Frames and 5mins 50 seconds of Video highlights how much we simply don’t see when encountering someone’s photographic reproduction and underlines how problematic photography can be as representative medium.

www.samholden.com

David Cochrane (UK)

Rehearsal (Day In, Day Out)

Performance related video

An unknown protagonist puts on and takes of different ties

Şinasi Güneş (TR)

Anatolia

This work contains images of women who live in Anatolia and have different cultural features and also of women who are veiled are scrutinised.

www.simulasyon.net

Sarah Filmer (UK)

Unravel

A disparate collection of personal moments becomes an articulation of the universal notion of loss. The pale blue jumper has a trajectory through the world that acts as a metaphor for the life of any one or any thing. It’s story is spoken, while the visual elements of the video allude to the ways in which we incorporate a life-changing death into a lived experience.

Maggie Hall (UK)

Rolling Drawing

“I produce work without a narrative and verbal content, work that exists purely to be experienced communicating a semi-intuitive understanding. I want to leave my work open to the formation of ideas and concepts rather than react to them. Recently I have begun to merge the initial creation of my work with the final product, recreating a version of the process. These works intend to compress, contain and capture the initial energy and tensions revealed in their creation.”

www.axisweb.org/artist/maggiehall

Tom Walker (UK)

Spin

“My work draws from sources such as performance art history, jackass and youtube and it is from these that I extrapolate the ridiculous, the futile and failure of actions or moments in order to create my work. These stimuli can either be used as a trigger or directly within the work, the videos always feature me, after all if one cannot make an ass of one’s self then what is the point? Maybe it is I who is laughing at me, laughing at you, laughing at me.”

www.re-title.com/artists/tom-walker.asp

Sarah Buckius (USA)

Trapped Inside Pixels

This animation combines performance, video and photography to digitally transform human movements to create kaleidoscopic patterns. This work explores how digital media uses replication to reconfigure a digitized single moving body into infinite animated mutations.

www.sarahbuckius.com

Kit Merritt (UK)

We Shall Never Speak of This: 7th January

Performance in response to an item received in the post. Part of an on-going mail art piece titled We Shall Never Speak of This , in which conversations with other artists evolve in every medium except the spoke / written word.

www.kitmerritt.com


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FAFF2010 Programme

Thursday 19th August 2010

Continued

David Cochrane (UK)

Dealt

Performance related video

A deck of card is dealt out

Lernert & Sander (NL)

How To Explain It To My Parents: Arno Coenen

In How To Explain It To My Parents: Arno Coenen, multimedia artist Arno Coenen is sitting at a table with his father. Together they taste Arno’s elf-brewed Eurotrash beer; followed by an attempt at a dialogue on how the brewing of beer can also be regarded as art. But ultimately, the conversation mainly tells us a great deal about the father-son relationship.

www.nimk.nl

Paul Tarragó (UK)

The Badger Series Episode 5

The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children’s entertainer.

www.paultarrago.net

Lemeh42 (IT)

Inner Klänge (Inner Sound)

Kandinskij published one of his most important works, Klänge (Sounds). The general principle of Klänge was the liberation of the inner sound. One century later, Lemeh42 realizes a personal homage to this russian painter. Inner Klänge (Inner sounds) is an animated journey to find the Inner sound.

lemeh42.indivia.net

Adam Brandon (UK)

02/06

The film is based upon the parallels between our perception of time, and the fundamental quality of time itself. By slowing footage to 2000 frames per second, the viewer is given a unique look into an unseen world, questioning not only our perception of time, but of the very idea of the natural, unchangeable forces surrounding us.

www.adam-brandon.com

Lernert & Sander (NL)

Revenge: Bottle of Champagne

Revenge: Bowling Ball

Revenge: Hammer

The ingredients: a bottle of champagne, a bowling ball, a hammer. And the laws of physics. The goal: sweet revenge. Revenge is a series of short videos, originally part of a two hour documentary about revenge for Dutch VPRO television.

www.nimk.nl

Tom Walker (UK)

You and Me

“My work draws from sources such as performance art history, jackass and youtube and it is from these that I extrapolate the ridiculous, the futile and failure of actions or moments in order to create my work. These stimuli can either be used as a trigger or directly within the work, the videos always feature me, after all if one cannot make an ass of one’s self then what is the point? Maybe it is I who is laughing at me, laughing at you, laughing at me.” www.re-title.com/artists/tom-walker.asp

Sarah Harbridge (UK)

Not Reacting to Something Horrific

This video comes from Sarah Harbridge’s current project (March 2010) to attempt to make a piece of art each day, within her means: time, ability, cost.

Paul Tarragó (UK)

The Badger Series Episode 6

The Badger Series has issues and attempts, each episode, to resolve them. Recasting a glove puppet through his own present day sensibilities, Paul assumes the role of a kindly uncle mentor to a household of capersome woodland creatures. Mortality, self-sacrifice, depression, altered states of consciousness and transgressive art practices are all explored as part of their everyday lives together. Meanwhile the show is mindful to adhere to the traditional structural formulae, with entertainment numbers and routines appropriate to the scaled down sitcom world that they occupy. The series is equal parts moral instruction and narrative play, mediate through the forced fit of an experimental filmmaker as children’s entertainer.

www.paultarrago.net


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FAFF2010 Programme

Thursday 19th August 2010

Clare Harris (UK)

Passing Moment

Passing Moment is a short film in which the viewer is placed in a position of being a voyeur in which they observe consciousness looking in on its self. With ambiguous and sometimes tense imagery the viewer finds themselves lost in a void of emotion.

www.harris-media.co.uk

Roland Wegerer (AT)

Sunwatersandbucket

On a beach near the Danube a bucket full of water will positioned. The bucket will be knocked down. A splash flows over the sand and looks for a way to the water. Because of the angle of view the qualities of this process can be seen. Extensions, course, glittering, ooze away, reducing. A narrative game with our perception.

www.rolandwegerer.com

Lin de Mol (NL)

You Can

Slowly, in a meditative mood, the camera investigates details of the interior of an old house. The water tap is dripping, a woman’s hand is embroidering a table cloth and a lizard slowly crawls over a bowl of red berries. Trees, duckweed and brushwood alternate with scenes from the interior, describing the mood of a moment like a string of haikus. Bach’s opening aria of the Goldberg Variations forms the frame of this ‘associative editing’ piece that bears references to Dutch painters Pieter Claesz ad Lara de Moor.

www.nimk.nl

Sara Rajaei (NL)

Forever for a While

A young woman enters a living room, moments later she is an elderly woman lookimg at herself in a mirror, or is a little girl sitting in a chair. Once in a while they seem to find themselves in the same space, which is otherwise populated by family members who are completely taken up with each other, while the woman is moving in isolation as if she is not really there, her gaze turned inwards.

www.nimk.nl

Joanne Masding (UK)

Tree Door

A plastic three is wedged into and take out of a space in a door frame while a projection of a plastic tree is wedged into and taken out of a space in a doorframe.

www.joannemasding.com

David Cochrane (UK)

Incident

Performance related video – diptych

Left screen – a candle is melted using a blowtorch

Right screen – a paper house is built

Gerald Zahn (AT)

Nur Noch 5 Minuten (Just 5 More Minutes)

A study of time in cinematic perception, Viennese media artist Gerald Zahn visualises 5 minutes by filming a person holding his breath for the duration of the film. In contrast with the casual disregard for mere 5minutes in the film title, the film fills this period with significance. The emotional turmoil’s on the actor’s face as he fights through every second on the stop-watch, making 5 Minutes a cinematic era of tension, impatience, doubt and expectation.

www.geraldzahn.tk


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