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OPEN CALL

sidewalkCINEMA – Vienna
Vienna, August 30th – September 8th, 2007

In September 2007 sidewalkCINEMA will take place for the third time. The Viennese public art project by WOLKE 7 provides filmmakers and artists, both national and international, with the opportunity, to present their work in a rather exceptional setting to a broad and mixed audience: Over a period of 10 days, short films and videos will be screened along the street “Kaiserstraße”. Instead of choosing a classical indoor movie theatre setting, the festival initiators have chosen an outdoor, public area, specifically, the traditional Viennese business and shopping street “Kaiserstrasse” with its length of 1,6 km at the periphery of one of the most creative districts, “Neubau” in Vienna.

city system/s
The theme of sidewalkCINEMA 2007 is “city system/s”, as “city” is not a homogenous entirety, it is rather a great “system” of differences, various forms of perception, the unknown, the indiscernible, the secret and the “forgotten systems”, which do interact constantly while at the same time such “systems” can also be sensed as singularities.

A space in which official, mostly “state-regulated” systems like the public transport, urban street networks, land utilization, architecture, water supply, waste management etc. interact with “auto-regulated” systems, non-systems, maybe even with the “non-systematic” or the “anarchic”. On one hand, the hard, utilized and hierarchically structured systems, on the other hand, heterogeneous communities with their special interests as well as “singular-systems” like the private sphere.

Within the frame of this year’s main emphasis “city system/s”, WOLKE 7 and its partners invite interested parties to question such imminent concepts like system/s and mechanisms of systematization, exclusion and occupation, structure and chaos, ways of perception, production and other aspects of the theme “city”.

Which forms of an independently structured, in- and excluding, fragmented perception does “urban space” as such authorize? How is the constant exchange between the systems maintained in and through networking? What is the “place” of the singular person, and in how many systems is this person a part of? How is a perception even possible in this fractured chiasm of the visible and the invisible?

With this invitation, sidewalkCINEMA continues the contemporary discourse on urban phenomena and its artistic approach.

PRIZES
First prize: € 1.000
Second prize: € 600
Third prize: € 400
Prize dominated by festival audience: € 500
sponsored by the Cultural Commission of Vienna- Neubau District

SUBMISSION
Submissions of films and videos from April 1st, 2007 until June 30th 2007
(date of postmark).
For submission forms and further details, please refer to the attachment or
the website: www.sidewalkcinema.at

ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION:

c/o Hilary Tsui
Van der Nuellgasse 4/20
A-1100, Vienna
Austria

TEAM
Artistic director: Bernadette Ruis & Angela Heide
Architecture: Volker Dienst
Curator – Asia Focus: Hilary Tsui, city transit Asia-Europe
Curator – Turkey Focus: Ovul Durmusoglu

city transit Asia-Europe
www.city-transit.org

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