Black Box at Edinburgh International Film Festival
June 18-29, 2014
Deadline: February 18, 2014

Black Box at Edinburgh International Film Festival invites experimental submissions of any length, both film (16mm, 35mm) and video.

Black Box is EIFF's dedicated platform for showcasing experimental cinema from around the world. Short and medium-length works on any format. As always, Black Box supports and encourages works on film - we have a super-dedicated team of projectionists and excellent 16mm and 35mm facilities. We also do our best to cater for screenings requiring multiple projectors. Films should be UK premieres, should not be available online at the time of submission, and should be no more than 12 months old by June 2014. For EIFF's submission rules and regulations please visit: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/submissions/rules-regulations.

Submit online, by post (download the postal submission form) OR via the submission platform Withoutabox. Submission process: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/submissions. Remember to contact the programmer Kim Knowles to get a fee waiver.

Bodies in Land is a new international film festival, which will be held in Abercych and the lower Teifi Valley, Wales in May 2014. In its first year the festival is open to submissions from filmmakers, artists and particularly dancers, whose work relates to the theme of movement and bodies in the landscape. Makers of all countries and nationalities may apply.

We intend to screen films publicly in the village hall, as well as installed in various homes and social spaces within and around the village.

To submit your film, send a labelled DVD copy with the completed Entry Form by the deadline 10 March 2014 to:

Bodies in Land 2014
c/o Simon Whitehead
1 Penrhiw
Abercych
Pembrokeshire
UK SA37 0HB

Rules - Entry Form

Urban Research is a special film program during the Berlin International Directors Lounge concerned with urban themes curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr. For years the urban landscape has been under rapid change. Due to the increased economic pressure and shift towards mono-functional uses of the city, public space more and more vanishes. The newly awakened interest in old city centers, which is a rather positive development, has also created new demands in conjunction with the deregulations of national and municipal city tasks: the city has mainly become an object for real estate investment. On the other hand, new waves for urban movements towards a democratic renewal have appeared.

It may be surprising that in this field of creative expression, experimental film has found a renaissance, often in conjunction with analog methods. Also a diversity of documentary forms have arisen anew. Creative film nowadays uses a multitude of traditions mixing and recombining the white-cube gallery art, classical avant-garde, classic cinema and the tube, performance and new media, happening and radical activism. Concerning creative production and critical discussions, there seems to have been an increased interest in public space and urban themes. In addition the classical “theatre screening” seems to meet a new interest. Artists working in a diversity of fields have discovered again the “single channel” format as an easy way for presentation and discussing work on international platforms without the complications and the distribution costs of extended installations.

Urban Research 2014 will be first presented at the Berlin International Directors Lounge 6–16 February 2014. The program has also been presented internationally in screenings in London, Mannheim, Hannover, Poznan, Freiburg, Essen, Dordrecht, Senigallia, St. Petersburg and Berlin.