Hello Experimenters!
I fell asleep thinking about how excited I am to introduce next week’s assignment to you and how much possibility I feel around the month of June for no particular reason. I think this optimism may show itself in a number of ways which could include an Instagram Q&A or maybe a TWIE Discord so we can share resources and ideas as a group. Of course, it’s also possible that neither of those things materialize. Basically, I’m just saying that I’ve enjoyed hearing from all of you, and I’m always thinking of ways to make that occurrence more common.
In solidarity,
Gabby
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Emergency Funds
The Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for Artists with Disabilities due June 15th
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
Onassis Emergency Fellowships 2020/21
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
Filmmaker’s Guide To Applying For US Coronavirus Federal Relief
Emergency Resources for Artists and Freelancers
COVID-19 Funding for Artists in New England
Calls for Entry
Collective Imagination for Spatial Justice due May 24th (TODAY)
WAC Awards due May 25th (TOMORROW)
Malt Adult #20 Intermission-Loop due May 27th
Homografía due May 30th
Silicon Valley African Film Festival due May 31st
BlackStar Nonfiction Pitch Contest due May 31st
Relax due May 31st
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival due May 31st
REAKTOR Potenziale | Call for Concepts due May 31st
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival – Ethnofest 2021 due May 31st
SciArt Magazine Summer 2021 Issue: Light due June 1st
ATL 2 Minute Experimental Films due June 1st
Freedom & Captivity due June 1st
VISAP ‘21 due June 1st
Fracto Film Encounter due June 1st
The Lumen Prize due June 4th
Film Fest Kodama Earlybird Deadline June 5th
After the Deluge due June 6th
Output No 04 due June 6th
Inspired by Words due June 7th
Art Trail due June 11th
Open Screen due June 13th
POOL 21 due June 14th
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest due June 15th
Light from Space #1 – The Sun due June 20th
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival due June 30th
Visions of Nature due July 7th
Film Fest Kodama Regular Deadline July 15th
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival Regular Deadline July 20th
Media City Film Festival due July 30th
Antimatter Regular Deadline June 30th
WNDX Festival of Moving Image due June 30th
ULTRAcinema 2021 Regular Deadline June 30th
ENGAUGE EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 due July 1st
AIR Gallery Open Call due July 4th
Folklore and Traditions due July 7th
ANALOGICA Regular Deadline July 10th
Film Fest Kodama July Deadline July 15th
INCADAQUÉS OPEN CALL 2021 due July 15th
Found Footage Magazine Issue #8 Paper Submission Deadline July 15th
123rd SSA Annual Exhibition due July 18th
2021 Punto y Raya Festival due August 2nd
Film Fest Kodama August Deadline August 4th
On Media. Signals and Connections due August 7th
ExperimentoBioi 2021 due August 15th
MONSTERFUCKERS due September 1st
Decolonising Film & Screen Studies due September 1st
The 2021 Film And Video Poetry Symposium Deadline September 4th
Freedom for Free due September 7th
Open Residencies & Fellowships
Odyssée Artist-in-Residency due May 29th
Caravan Residency Program due May 30th
3 bis f | contemporary art centre residency due May 30th
The Video Consortium’s 2021 Mentorship Program due May 30th
Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency at Esplanade due May 31st
Unit 1 Gallery Solo Residency due May 31st
Al & Mickey Quinlan Residency due May 31st
Gregor Family Artist-in-Residence due June 1st
CIAR Fall Residency Program due June 1st
Artists in Residence in Everglades due June 1st
Bulegoa z/b residency due June 1st
Austin Film Grant due June 4th
SAL Residency 2021 due June 6th
Remote_CTRL R&D Residency due June 7th
The Firelight Media Documentary Lab due June 15th
(Egg)celerator Lab due June 22nd
ACE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE due June 25th
Swimming in AIR (remote) due June 25th
North Star Fellowship due June 28th
Women In Film Finishing Fund due June 30th
Digital Diasporas due July 15th
Stiwdio Maelor Residency due July 19th
What is Evidence? due July 31st
McColl Center for Art + Innovation Summer Deadline May 15th
HMK 5-month Residency due May 31st
HMK 6-week Residency due May 31st
Gallery 263 Exhibition Proposals due August 1st
Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence due August 16th
AirLand due September 10th
HAMBIDGE RESIDENCIES – Spring 22 due September 15th
McColl Center for Art + Innovation Fall Deadline May 15th
Online Artists Support Program
The Loisaida Center Emerging Artist Residency
Open Funds
Judy Chicago Art Education Award due June 1st
LEF Early Development Grant due June 4th
LEF Pre-Production Grant due June 4th
The Everyday Projects due June 7th
ITVS due June 11th
Points North Fellowship Extended Deadline June 14th
Collective Futures Fund due June 15th
Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund due June 28th
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists due June 30th
American Stories Documentary Fund due July 5th
Sundance Institute | Stars Collective Granting Fund due July 16th
Black Artists Grant (UK)
ARTNOIR’S JAR OF LOVE FUND (US-based artists, curators, and cultural workers of color)
Things to Watch
Remains to be Streamed, IG Live (Ongoing, Tuesdays 8PM PT)
TEFF: Honorable Mention Collection 2021 (April 1st – June 1st)
Images Festival (May 20th – May 26th)
Severing the Impact on Memory (May 19th – 26th)
Gaze.Play.Dream. (May 21st – 28th)
Art. Transmission. Technology – LabInter 20/21 (May 20th – 30th)
Old Long Stay (2020) (May 24th – 30th)
TEFF: Meet the Filmmaker – Ramey Newell (May 14th – 31st)
małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (May 26th – June 1st)
Cousins and Kin: Shelley Niro’s Honey Moccasin (May 16th – June 15th)
TouchDesigner Vol.043 Generative Visuals with Kinect 2 (May 29th 8PM ET)
Material Cinema Experiments Spring 2021
Things to Read
Article/Essay: Narrative is Everything! Palestinian Films to Watch Now by Nehad Khader
Book Recommendation: Cinema of Actuality by Yuriko Furuhata
Poem: This Is Why We Dance by Mohammed El-Kurd
Things to Do
Assignment: Last week, I challenged you to consider how you might remake or respond to a work by an AAPI artist you had been learning about all month. While I recognize how big a task that is I also know that the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. I challenge you to choose a single shot from the film you would hypothetically respond to and make a still the mimics or responds to that shot. Try not to get hung up on medium or staging. Make this image from the heart. If you post that image to Instagram and tag @this_week_in_experimental I’ll be sure to post you on the page’s story.
Journal: Set an alarm for 10 minutes. See how many things you can list that you are grateful for in that 10 minutes. They can even be small things like your favorite snack. Hold onto that list or a picture of it for tough moments.
