SFC – Shoah Film Collection, Call for entries

SFC – Shoah Film Collection, Call for entries

deadline: 02 June 2014

SFC – Shoah Film Collection  is a wordwide unique initiative by Agricola de Cologne, director of Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards addressed to the young generations of artists and film makers to use new technologies and contemporary approaches in art in order to senstize the visitors/audience to keep vivid the memory of SHOAH.

Launched on occasion of 65th return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz on 27 January 2010 SFC – Shoah Film Collection has meanwhile collected 37 outstanding pieces of videoart. Each year, on 27 January, SFC – Shoah Film Collection is releasing a new call for submissions , and now it is so far to invite again artists from the field of “moving images” to submit experimental art films and videoart reflecting the topic of “SHOAH” and related fields.

In 2012, SFC – Shoah Film Collection became the starting point and basis ofCTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections – http://ctf.engad.org

Also in 2012, a special event structure has been created, i.e. A Virtual Memorial – Commemorative Interventions” – for placing SFC – Shoah Film Collection in the context of complementary interventions like lectures, a symposion, exhibitions, discussion, artists talks and much more, in order to activate the artists and film makers, as well as the audience. In 2012 und 2013 the first events took place in Riga, Phnom Penh, Warsaw, and Vilnius, to be continued in 2014 & 2015 in Milan, Timisoara and other places –http://avmci.a-virtual-memorial.org

In this initiative, the topic of “SHOAH” can be understood as a metaphore for the dark side of human existence causing the most extreme violations of human rights and human dignity, as they are manifesting themselves in the process of the historical HOLOCAUST during the Nazi era in the 20th century, but also in the genocides and crimes against humanity as they are happening nowadays before our very eyes or in our neighbor’s garden.

Understanding as a witness what is happening these days, offers the possibility to understand the inimaginable which the historical HOLOCAUST is representing.

Reflecting the massacre of Srerbrenica, the genocide in Rwanda, Cambodia or Guatemala, the repressions in Tibet or the xenophobic behaviour of your neighbor or probably your own intolerance, is helping to understand the PAST, the PRESENT and FUTURE:
SHOAH must not happen again ever anywhere!

The film and video artists who want to submit are encouraged to inform themselves intensively about the subject matter before they submit a film/video in order to find their individual approach which may be historical, as well as most contemporary in different concern. The human dimension makes SHOAH a topic and matter which has the potential to affect all people anywhere on the globe since the values of humanity are vivid and valid as long as human invidividuals are living, no matter from what kind of cultural, ethnic, religious or social background they may come from.

The film/video selected will be included in SFC -Shoah Film Collection and the long-term plannings of its events.

Entry Regulations

- Deadline: 02 June 2014

- Wanted: single channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe
- SFC is looking for innovative and experimental approaches in dealing with contents and technology
- The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2000-2014. Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: 60 seconds up to max 15 minutes (exceptions possible on request)
- Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
- Creations using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be uploaded for download by using the free upload platforms like SENDSPACE www.sendspace.com (up to 300 MB) or WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com (up to 2GB), after upload please send the link, and CologneOFF will download the film then.
- for review only following video formats are eligible – minimum size–> 720×576 (PAL) or 720×480 (NTSC)or HD:
.mpeg2 (DVD), . mov (Quicktime, H264 codec only), .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media), .flv (Flash video)
- only selected artists will be notified and invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video in best screening quality.
- the selections will be made on an ongoing basis until the final deadline.

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Entry Form – please cut and paste >> Please use for each video a new entry form
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1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) full address
c) email, URL
d) short bio (max. 100 words, English only)

2.
film/video

a) title English – original (max 3 works)
b) URL home page, (Internet address for download)
c) year of production
d) duration
e) work synopsis (max. 100 words/submission, English only)
f) 2 screenshots for each submitted work (jpg, 800×600 px)

Please add this declaration & sign it with your full name & email address
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I, the submitter/author, declare to be the holder of all rights on the submitted work.
In case the work is selected, I give – until revoke – SFC – Shoah Film Collection the permission to include the work in the project context online and in physical space for screenings /exhibitions free of charge and use screenshots for non-commercial promotional purposes free of charge, as well. Until revoke means, that the author can remove his work at any time.
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Please use for each submission a separate entry form

deadline: 02 June 2014

Please send the submission in both -
plain email text and RTF (Rich Text Format) or WORD . doc as attachment to

artvideo (at) koeln.de
subject: SFC – Shoah Film Collection
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A Virtual Memorial Foundation
http://avmci.a-virtual-memorial.org

SFC – Shoah Film Collection
http://sfc.engad.org
http://sfc.engad.org/blog/
http://sfc.engad.org/videos/
http://sfcip.engad.org
http://avmci.a-virtual-memorial.org

Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org

All mentioned instances are corporate part of
Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
directed and curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne                                            artvideo (at) koeln.de

VIDEOHOLICA 2014 | OPEN CALL

VIDEOHOLICA 2014| VII INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL
VARNA | BULGARIA | 1 - 7 AUGUST 2014 
deadline for application: 1st of June 2014

VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival in Varna, Bulgaria starts the new open call for video art submissions for its 7th edition. The 7th VIDEOHOLICA will take place between 1st and 7th August 2014 in Varna, Bulgaria.
This year's edition of VIDEOHOLICA will be accompanied by an international panel discussion on the issues and opportunities for alternative video art distribution and creating on-site archive of video art in Bulgaria.
The theme of VIDEOHOLICA 2014 is 7.
7 appears to be a hyper functional number featuring multiple typical symbolic and meaningful encumbrances. According to many, 7 is a sacred or primal number, a symbol of beginning and creation. Others define 7 as the golden mean between the first number 1 and the odd 13. According to some, 7 symbolizes the end or death, because it closes a series of various human phenomena in a cycle of 7, after which nothing happens. There are concepts, according to which 7 symbolizes harmony, connectivity and integrity bringing together 3 as a symbol of the intangible and ideological and 4 - as that of intangible. If in this irrational syncretism the disposition of 7 is also a base (beginning), medium, end, and all taken together, then the math is definitely funny and a hypothetical artistic study - very curious.
 In its 7th year, VIDEOHOLICA recognizes 7 as its own existential performativity, but not to highlight its existing complex symbolism but to provoke new multidirectional thinking, associations and interpretations beyond the real potentiality of 7. What does 7 count for/ depict? What is more and what is less than 7? Is 7 enough? Where is the place of 7 in today's multitudinous/ multifunctional world? With these and other questions we are searching for poetic, abstract, ironic, conditional, metaphoric and literal comments on the moving image, committed to decompose the audio-visual and conceptual matrix of the figure 7.
VIDEOHOLICA 2014 will be again composed of the sections: video art, short films and animation.
VIDEOHOLICA 2014 will award the following prizes:
First Prize - GOLDEN VIDEOHOLIC - EUR 1000
Second Prize - SILVER VIDEOHOLIC
Third Prize - BRONZE VIDEOHOLIC
Award for young Bulgarian author - BG VIDEOHOLIC

The VIDEOHOLICA has a submission fee of EUR 15.
VIDEOHOLICA 2014 will accept both regular mail applications and online applications.
VIDEOHOLICA 2014 OPEN CALL will run until 1st June 2014 and all applications are very welcome.

Terms and Conditions & Application Form: