Experimental Cinema

Mono No Aware VI
Call for entries
Deadline October 31st 2012

Submissions are now open for the 6th Annual Mono No Aware exhibition, to take place December 7th & 8th, 2012 in Brooklyn, NY.  Open to all artists; filmmakers, performers, poets, musicians - who incorporate Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm or altered light projections as part of a live performance, installation, sculpture or expanded cinema presentation. Mono No Aware is an international exhibition open to any person or group of persons making contemporary art that incorporates Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm or altered light projections as part of a sculpture, installation, dance, or expanded cinema performance. For example: blending film & theater performance, musicians creating a visual experience for their sound, & experimental filmmakers working with story tellers. Submissions including digital projections will not be considered (i.e. DVcam DigiBETA, DVD, BetaCamSP). No fee for submission.

Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento
October 31st - November 3rd
Deadline: August 1st, 2012
Regulations - Entry form

The Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM), is a place entirely dedicated to the field of audiovisual experimentation.  An appropriate environment for the exhibition of works, a space to think about the specific aesthetic matters of art on video and film.

Its main goal is to promote the development and circulation of audiovisual arts. To that end, a singular program of video and film works it’s presented, along a space for discussion enriched by distinguished artists and researchers that propose, both to specialists and the general public, a framework of exchange that improves the experience of the encounter with the work of art.

The BIM emerges as an initiative of the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), this fact defines its identity founded on solid thinking and critical attitude. The deliberation framework that constitute the encounters with international artists, conferences, round-table meetings and workshops, it’s what makes the BIM so much more than just a well-nourished program of video and film works.

The call is open to single channel works, in both video and film, of author profile, that stand away from the rules established by the entertainment industry, and that are the result of authentic innovative and aesthetic and conceptual searches.

Chicago 8: A Small Gauge Film Festival 2012
Fall 2012

Call for entries now open: http://chicago8fest.org/submityourfilm

Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival focuses on providing an opportunity to exhibit a wide selection of Super 8 experimental films from around the world created by new, emerging, and professional filmmakers. Our goal is to project small gauge with the upmost of care and quality that this vital medium deserves.

Please send preview DVDs with completed submission form to:
Chicago 8 Fest
516 North Ogden Avenue #216
Chicago, IL 60642

or send your online submissions, with your completed submission form to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Deadline for entries must be received by: August 31st 2012

MIA @ the Armory
Open call for entries

MIA is a brand new series screening the work of artists working with moving images. Moving image art includes experimental film, video art, installation art, performance art, essay films and animation. The series is curated by artist Alanna Simone.

Screenings take place at 7PM, every 4th Friday at The Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103.

While there is no thematic requirement for submissions, upcoming programs will focus on language, ecology, the mechanics of dreaming and relationships with food.

More information and entry forms can be found at http://MIAscreen.com/submissions and inquiries may be made by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

KLEX – Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival 2012
Theme: DEFRAMED
Deadline: Postmarked by 20 July 2012
Festival Dates: 21-25 November 2012

Send us your irrepressible works in film & video for KLEX 2012!

On “Deframed”:
As an artist working with film and video, you use the frame as your medium to express, experiment and communicate. A frame holds your mess together and put it in place and in context – your ideas, emotions, memories, yearnings, desires… It is your canvas, your stage and your asylum, you feel safe and comfortable living in this little universe. And then one day, you notice that the edge of this frame starts to crack…

Use the word “Deframed” as an inspiration for your new experiment with film and video for the 3rd KLEX 2012!

Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / www.klexfilmfest.com

KLEX is an artists/volunteers-run, DIY film festival dedicated to showcase and promote experimental cinema from Malaysia and worldwide to facilitate understanding, exchange, friendship and collaboration

The 56th BFI London Film Festival
10-25 October 2012

The BFI London Film Festival will present its annual survey of avant-garde and artists’ film & video in October 2012.

Eligible works must have been made within the last two years and should receive their UK theatrical premiere in the festival. Recent archival restorations may also be considered. The final deadlines for receipt of entries are 22 June 2012 (short films) and 6 July 2012 (features).

If you would like your work to be considered for the programme, complete the appropriate online form and send preview copies, or email details of works in progress, as soon as possible. Label all preview materials clearly “for the attention of Mark Webber”. Please note that there is no entry fee for works made in the UK or by UK artists.

For UK works : http://form.jotformpro.com/form/20644981059964

For international works : http://form.jotform.com/form/20502823171

Further information on eligibility and regulations : http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/2104

Details of the 2011 programme can still be found online at :
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/films/experimenta
http://www.experimentaweekend.org/

If you have any questions, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

One Minute volume 6 - Call for entries
Deadline June 15th 2012

One Minute volume 6 - the sixth in the series of programmes of artists' moving image, curated by artist Kerry Baldry, which will be screened at GLIMMER 2012 - The 10th Hull International Short Film Festival in October. For more information on the previous touring programmes see http://kerrybaldry.com/#/one-minute/4540180591. Please email for further information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

One Minute volume 5 included work by: Marty St. James, Chris Paul Daniels, Gordon Dawson, Lumiere et Son (Sam Renseiw & Philip Sanderson), Guy Sherwin, Phillip Warnell, Kayla Parker & Stuart Moore, Jennifer Ross, Callum Cooper, Steven Ball, Esther Johnson, Paulo Menezes, Stuart Pound, Martin Pickles, Clint Enns, Katherine Meynell, Louisa Minkin, Kerry Baldry, David Kefford, Tina Keane, Annabel Dover, Ron Diorio, Michael Cousin, Riccardo Iacono, Michael Szpakowski, Kate Jessop, Jonathan Moss, Daniela Butsch, Eleni Xintaras, Alex Pearl, Zhel (Zeljko Vukicevic), Virginia Hilyard, Nicki Rolls, Nick Jordan and  Jacob Cartwright, Barry Lewis, Leister/Harris.

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2012
Call for entries

To submit a Film
The call for entries for the 41th edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma is now online.
All entries must be received by June 15, 2012 at the latest.

For more information: Submissions
To submit via Withoutabox, click here

To submit an Interactive project (Innovation Award)
Deadline: June 30th, 2012
 
As part of its section dedicated to interactive projects, the Festival du nouveau cinéma is actively looking for works that experiment with new audiovisual forms and innovative technological tools and devices to tell a story, express a concept and continue to determine more actively than ever tomorrow’s cinema.
The most original and audacious projects will be presented at the Festival, and will be eligible for the Innovation Award.
In 2011, the Innovation Prize goes to Vincent Morisset for Bla Bla and Bruno Masi and Guillaume Herbaut for the webdocumentary La Zone.

To submit an interactive project (Web-based projects, transmedia, etc.), please provide the following:
- One page including:  Title, author and collaborators (with short bios),  year of production,  description of the work.
- A link, video or visual documentation.
and send to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

To submit a Performance
The Festival du nouveau cinéma proposes a series of interdisciplinary performances where artists and audiences from different backgrounds converge. Focused on the « live » quality of audiovisual and cinematic works, the performances emerge from diverse artistic practices and explore the infinite perceptual experiences of sound and image.
Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2012 MIX NYC Call for Entries
Films - Installations - Performances (with media) - Guest Curators
Early Deadline - May 15
Regular Deadline - June 15th
Late Deadline - July 6th

Since 1987, MIX NYC has presented the latest in queer experimental film and previously unseen works from legendary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer- identified figures in avant-garde cinema.

In addition to our vanguard screenings, unique interactive installations, and infamous parties, MIX NYC also provides year-round community screenings, a summer media workshop for queer youth, film preservation projects, and the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project.documenting how collective action transformed AIDS activism, queer identity, and health care policy in America.

Click here to submit online

15th Annual Antimatter Film Festival
October 14-22, 2011  |  Victoria, BC, Canada
Entry Deadlines: May 11 (early); June 29 (final).
See the 2012 Entry Guidelines & Form

Dedicated to the exhibition and nurturing of film and video as art, Antimatter Film Festival has grown into the premier showcase of experimental cinema in western Canada. Encompassing screenings, installations, performances and media hybrids, Antimatter provides a noncompetitive festival setting in Victoria, British Columbia, free from commercial and industry agendas.

The highest standards of curatorial practice are employed to build thematic programs of innovative film and video selected from international submissions. In addition, our annual Foreign Matter series has become the incubator for hundreds of short films, all new to North American audiences, compiled and contextualized by international curators. Reciprocally, Antimatter delivers curated programs of new Canadian work to international audiences through our Foreign Matter tours.

Since 1998, the quality and creativity of its programming, commitment to audience development, and respect for filmmakers and their work have made Antimatter one of the most important media arts events in Canada, and the world.