Filed under: film/video festivals
News on the following festivals:
-VILA DO CONDE INT. FILM FESTIVAL.
-INT. SHORT FILM FESTIVAL WINTERTHUR.
-IMAGO INT. YOUNG FILM FESTIVAL.
-EXGROUND FILMFEST WIESBADEN.
VILA DO CONDE INT. FILM FESTIVAL
July 07-15, 2007 / Deadline: April 13, 2007.
Regulations for the International Competition:
*Max. length: 60 minutes.
*Films must be completed after January 1st, 2006.
*Accepted screening formats: 16mm, 35mm, BetaSP (Pal).
*Genres: animation, documentaries, experiemtal films, short fiction, music
videos.
Further information and complete regulations:
www.curtasmetragens.pt
INT. SHORT FILM FESTIVAL WINTERTHUR
November 07-11, 2007 / Deadline: June 30, 2007.
Regulations:
*Max. length: 25 minutes.
*All genres allowed.
*Accepted screening formats: 35mm, 16mm, Super8, BetaSP, DigiBeta, DV, HD
DVD, Blue-Ray-Disc.
Further information and complete regulations:
www.kurzfilmtage.ch
IMAGO INT. YOUNG FILM FESTIVAL
September 29 – October 07, 2007 / Deadline: June 22, 2007
Regulations for the Main Competition:
*only for directors younger than 35 years.
*Max. length: 30 minutes.
*produced in 2006 or 2007.
*Genres: fiction, experimental, animation.
*Accepted screening formats: 35mm, 16mm, BetaSP.
Other competions are:
Docs in Shorts / Under 25 / Clix Micromovies.
Further information and complete regulations:
www.imagofilmfest.com
EXGROUND FILMFEST WIESBADEN
November 16-25, 2007 / Deadline: August 01, 2007
German Short Film Contest:
*for german productios only.
*Max. length: 20 minutes.
*produced in 2006 or 2007.
*all genres allowed.
*Accepted screening formats: 35mm, 16mm, Super8.
Other competions are:
International On-Video Contest / Wiesbaden Special / Youth Film Contest.
Further information and complete regulations:
www.exground-filmfest.de
***All the above festivals are reelport partner festivals and on-line submission is also available:
www.reelport.com
Please check the festival regulations carefully and take care that your film
matches the requirements.
(posted by Linda)
簡介
香港政府於一月初推出「在數碼環境中保護知識產權」 的諮詢文件，強調「政府致力建立一個健全的版權保護制度，為創意產業的持續發展提供有利環境。」可是，整個諮詢文件，主要只考慮版權持有人的利益，缺乏互聯網創作人及使用者的聲音。
互聯網最大的影響是打破消費者與生產者的角色，很多用戶都會於互聯網上創作（例如把文章、照片、音樂創作與混音、影像等內容上載）；網民於論壇上發表評論，形成一個公民參與的空間；亦有很多教師，透過互聯網教學。可是這次諮詢文件卻沒有考慮這些使用的需要，亦沒有評估傳統媒體主導的產權觀，對這個公共空間和創意空間所帶來的負面影響。
此外，這次諮詢中所提出的多個諮詢項目，對未來香港的數碼資訊業、創意工業、教育事業和言論空間有深遠的影響。我們希望藉著這次民間諮詢，讓公眾能對數碼環境的創作、文化教育事業有更多的了解。亦歡迎大家在民間諮詢會上互相交流意見，並於文件諮詢期完結前，向政府提交意見。
這次諮詢會我們分別請來了國內群智基金會(Social Brain Foundation)代表，談如何發展一個有利創意和教育的產權觀，以及台灣聯合報系法務專員∕中華民國維基媒體協會理事長鄧傑，談台灣推廣 creative commons的經驗。香港互聯網協會主席莫乃光會以其專業知識，評論港府的諮詢文件。此外，主辦單位亦會發佈「知識共享(Open knowledge)宣言」行動，以民間群策群力的方法，推動開放知識的實踐。
活動詳情
* 時間︰ 四月一日(星期日) 下午二時半
* 地點︰ 中環夏愨道12號美國銀行中心，香港中文大學專業進修學院100 室
* 主持︰ 葉蔭聰 (知識共享成員、獨立媒體(香港)執委成員)
* 講者︰ 莫乃光先生、鄧傑先生、群智基金會代表
* 報名及留座︰請電郵閣下之姓名、聯絡電話及人數至 openknowledgehk@gmail.com。
More details: http://okproject.hk.googlepages.com/cib
講者簡介
鄧傑先生
鄧傑先生現職為台灣聯合報系法務專員、中華民國維基媒體協會理事長。亦曾於台灣創用(Creative Common)及維基媒體之活動上對版權法有關的議題作演說。
莫乃光先生
莫乃光先生現為香港互聯網協會會長、並於社會上有多項公職，最近並當選為選舉委員會資訊科技界選委。莫先生於「在數碼環境中保護知識產權」諮詢文件推出以來，一直於報章、電視媒體及政府論壇發表文章或演說。
群智基金會
群智基金會為內地一活躍於關注技術對社會影響之組織，特別是有關知識分享及網絡上開放協作的議題。是次論壇該會將派代表出席，與我們分享如何發展一個有利創意和教育的產權觀。
(posted by Linda)
Filed under: News
“Practice of Excellence in an installation event”
Speaker: Ms Stella Fong, Assistant Curator, HK Museum of Cultural Heritage
March 29, 2007 / 9:30am to 12:30pm / CIL
The talk will be full of case-study of actual exhibitions.
This talk is for ALL CIL students sponsored by a special fund to enhance quality learning and creativity in practice for our Studio.
Come as much as you can.
(Linda)
Filed under: News
Anson Mak will come and share her experience of teaching video and blogging at Yan Oi Tong, a charitable and non-profit making organization which provides welfare, education, medical, and recreational services to the general public in HK. Anson will also introduce her new ‘locative media’ project which involves building a digital platform for activist groups and reaching out to teach common people to use the platform.
Time: 11:00am to 12:30pm
Date: March 21, 2007 (Wednesday)
Venue: CIL Lab
All are welcome. For more information, please contact Wesley.
Filed under: News
The Tour: June 13-29, 2007
Berlin (6 days maximum)
Kassel (2 full days)
Munster (2 full days)
Karlsruhe (from Frankfurt)
(see postings on March 13)
***The duration of stay in Berlin may vary as our negotiation continues…
Objectives:
We shall cover a diverse range of world-class showcases of media arts in 2 weeks.
[for Year Three students] to form a comprehensive view of the latest state of media art so as to set professional and academic goals for future
[for Year Two students] to form a comprehensive view of the latest state of media art and to draw inspirations for Graduation Thesis
On-tour obligation:
Students will be assigned various tasks during the tour to enhance their learning experience: (1) documentation/journal-making, using different creative media; (2) presentation of works created at SCM to the local audience in Germany; and (3) group reports on a particular portion of an event
Post-tour obligation:
(1) The follow-up activities will include the production of a number of video works on/about/inspired by… the tour.
(2) Students will also participate in a one-day seminar in late summer or during the CIL orientation week to talk about the tour. If arrangements can be made, our documentation may be turned into a program for a local TV station.
(3) A simple 2-page written review is required to demonstrate to the funding office the concrete learning experience we have earned, submitted a month after return to HK.
HOW MUCH to spend? HOW to get there?
After a lot of consideration, the following arrangement is proposed:
(1) There will be no group air ticket arrangement. Everyone can find his/her own ways to get the cheapest ticket possible, as long as we all meet on June 13 in Berlin, and disperse on June 28 in Frankfurt.
This is the best arrangement because: a/ everyone can arrive or stay in Europe as long as they like; b/ it is easier to get budget ticket (e.g. Oasis) and fly the way you want; c/ students can organize among themselves freely.
(2) The basic HKD3000 subsidies will be guaranteed to everyone in the tour as long as s/he stays with the group throughout the 2-week study tour.
(3) The HKD3000 per student subsidies will be partially applied to local transportation and arrangement of accommodation first.
(4) The estimated amount each student will put in should range HKD5000-7000.
Estimated Cost per head: $10,642
Breakdowns:
Air ticket (group fare) and Tax: $6,400
German Pass and booking service charge: $1,187
Accommodation: $235 x 13 = $3,055
Total Estimated Cost: $242,550 ($10,642 x 25 persons)
***The actual expenditure will be adjusted and become clearer as our negotiation with different organizations progresses.
AT THIS POINT, WE WANT TO CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR THE TRIP. YOU ARE FREE TO WITHDRAW AFTER THE EXPENDITURE PLAN IS FINALIZED.
Please download the form here and answer a few basic questions.
We are looking for CIL students…
(1) whose career and study goals are relevant to and will benefit from the tour;
(2) who has creative works ready to share to students in Germany; and
(3) who is willing to communicate and ready for verbal exchange
Deadline: from now till March 30 (Friday)
Announcement of short-list: April 10 (Tuesday)
(Linda)
Filed under: Achievements
CIL graduate (2006) Kim Chim Lok-man’s 10-minute final-year project I see I cannot see 《視而不見》was picked as a Selected Work, one of only 100 entries given either an Excellence Award or named a Selected Work, at the Tokyo Video Festival. Congratulations to Kim!
Report from CityU News Centre:
English
Chinese
See also:
CIL graduate (2006) Judy Ma Ping-on’s Gilbert, a six-minute stop-motion animation, her graduation project, won the Technical Excellence Award at the Korea International Youth Film Festival in October 2006
Report from CityU News Centre
Filed under: film/video festivals
MadCat seeks films directed or co-directed by women that are produced ANY year.
MadCat accepts ALL GENRES — experimental, documentary, animated, narrative, hybrid, etc. The Festival favors work that pushes the genre and expands notions of visual storytelling.
Please visit their web site for an entry form at www.madcatfilmfestival.org.
Please read it over, fill it out and submit it along with your submission tape or dvd. MadCat may be moving offices in the coming months — if you send your submission in after April 1st, 2007 please check out web site for an updated address before submitting your film or video.
Please be sure to email us your street address, phone numbers etc. as well as sending in your submission form and preview. Check web site for guideline for submissions. Call 415 436-9523 if necessary.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
*MadCat seeks provocative and visionary films and videos directed or co-directed by women. Films can be of any length or genre and produced ANY year. MadCat is committed to showcasing work that challenges the use of sound and image and explores notions of visual story telling. All subjects/topics will be considered.
**Submission Fee: $10-30 sliding scale. Pay what you can afford. International entrants may disregard the fee.
***Preview Formats: VHS or DVD.
****Exhibition Formats: 35mm, 16mm, Super8, Beta SP, Mini DV, VHS, DVD.
*****All entries must include a self addressed stamped envelope for return of materials. Previews will not be returned without a self addressed stamped envelope.
Early Bird Deadline: March 23, 2007. Late Bird Deadline: May 21, 2007.
MadCat Women’s International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street Unit C
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
P. 415 436-9523
F. 415 934-0642
E. info@madcatfilmfestival.org
www.madcatfilmfestival.org
Ariella Ben-Dov
Executive Director and Curator
E. abendov@madcatfilmfestival.org
(posted by Linda)
Filed under: Opportunities
Press release titled “i love Italia: news about the Italian contemporary art scene from UnDo.Net”
Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto presents
UNIDEE in Residence – International Program 2007
2 July – 31 October 2007
Deadline for applications: 16 April 2007
http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee
UNIDEE in Residence is an international program open to artists, professionals, students and graduates of various university faculties from any country in the world.
UNIDEE offers an experience unlike anything offered in any other university or academic program: a research-oriented practice that operates within each discipline and is directed towards the responsible transformation of society and the creative activation.
The UNIDEE programs are directed by Michelangelo Pistoletto. The course in residency include an active participation in meetings and seminars hold by experts and professors of various humanistic, scientific, economic, political, artistic and social disciplines.
The residents work individually or in groups to develop ideas and projects, working along creative lines pertinent to the following fields: Art, Communication, Ecology, Economics, Education, Work, Nutrition, Politics, Production, Science, Spirituality.
The work of the UNIDEE residents involves constant interaction with the offices of Cittadellarte, which put the program of responsible social transformation into effect through projects developed in conjunction with public and private institutions, companies, cultural bodies and economic and production structures.
All the events in the Cittadellarte program – exhibitions, conferences, performances and workshops – offer further opportunities for the residents to explore issues and develop ideas.
At the end of the residency, the ideas that have been generated are presented publicly at the UNIDEE in progress exhibition-event.
How to apply
A maximum of twenty residencies are available each year.
The residency lasts four months, from July 2nd to October 31st.
The official language is English.
Cittadellarte selection panel chooses candidates on the basis of their aptitude for developing projects relating to the aims of the University of Ideas.
Applicants are invited to send any material they consider pertinent to such an assessment: curriculum, documentation of previous work, one or more examples ( well-developed or developing during the residence) of projects that illustrate their approach to the theme of a socially responsible transformation.
A filled-in and signed application form must also be included with the material.
Scholarship grants are available, total and partial cover. Anyone interested is invited to consult the website or to contact the organizing secretary for further information.
The sum includes:
- seminars during the residency
- attendance of the workshops
- technical and teaching assistance, visits and inspections
- participation in Cittadellarte activities
- board and lodging on the premises
UNIDEE 2007 is supported by:
Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita’ Culturali – Regione Piemonte – Provincia di Biella – Citta’ di Biella – Unicredit – Fondazione CRT – Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Biella – M.I.T. – Italy Program Universidad de Antioquia – Pepinieres europeennes pour jeunes artistes – Castello di Rivoli – Fulbright – A.M. Qattan Foundation – Inlaks Foundation – SNAIT – IFPC – Unesco Associazione Pacefuturo – Love Difference – Hangar – Fondazione Ermenegildo Zegna – illy caffe’ – CiAl Consorzio Imballaggi Alluminio – Ars Aevi – Sarajevo Academy – deBuren
Applications must be submitted by April 16th 2007 (postal stamp) to the following address:
UNIDEE in Residence
Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto
Via Serralunga, 27
13900 Biella – Italia
tel. +39 015 0991 462 / 471
fax +39 015 25 22 540
unidee@cittadellarte.it
http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee
(posted by Linda: find out more details…)
Here is a tentative schedule for the proposed study tour to Germany:
Summary iitinerary:
June 13 Hong Kong to Berlin
June 20 Berlin to Munster
June 23 Munster to Kassel
June 26 Kassel to Frankfurt
[***June 27 we shall take a 2-hour train to Karlsruhe from Frankfurt and return the same day]
June 28 or 29 Frankfurt to Hong Kong
Detailed itinerary:
June 13 Hong Kong to Berlin
***This portion of the trip will most likely involve an exchange event with students in “Art and Management” at University Of Applied Sciences in Potsdam (Potsdam is 20 minutes away from Berlin): there’ll be discussions and showing of student works
Museums to visit:
- Tesla (www.tesla-berlin.de) (address: podewils¹sches palais, klosterstrasse 68)
- House of World Cultures
- Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart (Museum for the present)
(address: Invalidenstrasse 50-51)
- Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Museum für Gestaltung (address: Klingelhöferstrasse 14)
http://www.bauhaus.de
- the Modern Gallery / Nationalgalerie Berlin in the end of June
***We may also visit German artist Carsten Nicolai’s works http://www.carstennicolai.de/ He is involved in sound as well as visual arts.
June 20 Berlin to Munster“Skultur Projekte” (Jun 17 to Sep 24, 2007)
http://www.skulptur-projekte.de/It’s a public art festival happening all over the city.
…one of the largest public art festival happened every 10 years
June 23 Munster to Kassel
Documenta 12 (Jun 16 to Sep 23, 2007)
http://www.documenta12.de/aktuelles.html?&L=1
June 26 Kassel to Frankfurt
[***June 27 we shall take a 2-hour train to Karlsruhe from Frankfurt and return the same day]
*ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/
Strong archive and a special show titled, “Thermocline of Art. New Asian Waves,” from June 15 to Oct 21, 2007
June 28 or 29 Frankfurt to Hong Kong
***Details on estimated expenditure and procedures to enrol will be announced before the end of this week.
(Linda)
Filed under: News
Forum today on the Creative Arts Centre at Shek Kip Mei…
2:00 to 5:00pm / no. 33 Pak Tin Street
隨着整個石硤尾邨即將夷為平地，香港的公屋社區文化即將成為歷史。在新舊更替之間，於七十年代興建的石硤尾工廠大廈將被保留，並於2007年底搖身一變成為賽馬會創意藝術中心」。這個繼火炭、柴灣以至官塘等自由生成的工廠藝術區後，由政府主導規劃的「藝術村」，已交由浸會大學伙拍香港藝術發展局和香港藝術中心聯手規劃及管理，並得到香港賽馬會慈善信託基金港幣六千九百餘萬元撥款作為改建和啟動經費。「中心」約一百個單位現已被五倍超額認租，反映藝術家對空間的需求有增無減。這座銳意要在「亞洲文化領域上佔一席位」的藝術中心，將座落在多元文化的草根社區，中心將何如何回應周遭社群之文化需要，以優化其生活質素？中心將何如何幫助活化周遭社群之經濟活動，以持續發展其生活環境？除了石硤尾工廠大廈外，政府亦有意保留美荷樓作文化藝術用途。這些空降在舊區的文化設施，如何讓居民積極參與，促進其文化經濟多元特色，甚至為其提供更多發展可能？
「中心」之籌備工作自2005年開展，已進入最後階段，然而其對社區之長遠影響仍有待評估與討論。故此我們在過去兩個多月來，以問卷及工作坊形式了解區內之文化需要，並主動組織是次公開論壇，公佈調查結果，並促成各方交流，歡迎社區人士、藝術界及公眾參與，為中心的長遠發展集思廣益。
「中心」之官方網站：http://net3.hkbu.edu.hk/~jccac/
詳情：
日期：2007年3月11日 (星期日)
時間：下午2時至5時
地點：嶺南同學會小學 (九龍白田街33號)
講者：
蘇翠影女士 (香港特別行政區民政事務局首席助理局長) / 譚國僑太平紳士先生 (深水埗區議會主席) / 深水埗區青年論壇成員 / 工作坊參與者及社區代表 / 孫惠芳小姐 (香港美感教育機構總監) / 蕭競聰先生 (香港理工大學設計學院助理教授) / 呂豐雅先生 (賽馬會創意藝術中心策劃總監 / 招炳坤先生 (香港浸會大學行政部主任) / 司徒薇小姐 (香港大學比較文學系助理教授)
主持：
馮美華小姐 (香港當代文化中心項目總監) / 林瑞含小姐 (勞資關係協進會)
查詢： 香港當代文化中心黃麗茵小姐 (電話：2766 3703 / 電郵：cam@hk-icc.org)
主辦： 深水埗區議會關注貧窮問題工作小組
合辦： 香港盲人輔導會 / 勞資關係協進會 / 香港基督教服務處深中樂Teen會 / 香港中華基督教青年會石硤尾會所 / 香港家庭福利會深水埗西綜合家庭服務中心 / 香港小童群益會賽馬會長沙灣青少年綜合服務中心 /
贊助： 深水埗區議會
協辦： 香港當代文化中心
(Linda)
