Hello Experimenters!
I honestly cannot believe that tomorrow is December 2021. I was listening to a podcast expressing the same incredulity last night, and one of the hosts called it “2020 Part 2.” I chuckled, but it was a tired, tired chuckle.
How do you conceptualize this last year? What will you take with you from 2021 into 2022?
I’m pondering the passage of time increasingly as I dive into a long-term short project–more on that in the Journal Prompt.
What are you pondering these days?
In solidarity,
Gabby
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Crossroads Early Submission Deadline November 30th
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Exploring the art of language due December 1st
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Art on the Marquee due December 12th
Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition due December 6th
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The Next due December 19th
The Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival due December 22nd
SPLICE Film Fest Regular Deadline December 24th
Cinalfama Christmas Deadline December 27th
Our Bio-Tech Planet: Future of Plants and Humans due December 31st
Microscope Gallery Open Call due December 31st
Parallel Voices due December 31st
Laterale Film Festival Third Deadline December 31st
Big Sky Pitch due December 31st
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Extraordinary Works – All Media – Open Theme due January 2nd
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Online Competitions due January 3rd
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Coney Island Film Festival Earlybird Deadline January 7th
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International Short Film Festival Oberhausen On-Site Competitions due February 1st
Little Islands Festival Regular Deadline February 10th
Videoart.Ist International Regular Deadline February 27th
Fracto Film Encounter due March 1st
Coney Island Film Festival Regular Deadline March 11th
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World Channel Nonfiction
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ARAC Art Residency due November 30th
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Black Artists Grant
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Things to Watch
Remains to be Streamed, IG Live (Ongoing, Tuesdays 8PM PT)
Media Monsters (Ongoing, Thursdays 8PM PT)
Exopoiesis (November 1st – 30th)
Her Five Lives (November 1st – 30th )
Strangelove (September 1st – November 30th)
5 Films by Hsin Chi (November 17th – 30th)
Imaginary Postcards by Jocelyne Saab (November 24th – December 7th)
Ouroboros by Basma Alsharif (November 24th – December 7th)
Cámara Lúcida Ecuador (November 20th – December 10th)
Moments of Perception Book Launch (November 30th 6PM ET)
Carmine Cella: New Sounds (December 2nd 12PM PT)
Videobardo 25 años
Things to Read
Article/Essay: Duty of Care: The Filmmaker-Protagonist Relationship by Priyanka Borpujari
Book Recommendation: Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism by Terri Frances
Poem: Combing by Gladys Cardiff
Things to Do
Assignment: Find a place you can access every day for the next week (in your home, office, somewhere outside). Take three pictures there every day for the next week to measure time. Try to focus on the same item/shadow/framing each time.
Journal: On Wednesday, I’m staring a yearlong project to help me process all these big changes in my life. I’m planning to make a cyanotype every single day for the 365 days. If you were to use a visual practice to track a year, how would you do it? Cell phone pictures? Video? Film stills? An animation? A shadow?
