Hello Experimenters!
The heat wave is wearing me out today; so, I’ll be brief. The big news this week: we’re now on Discord! I’ve been thinking of ways that we can grow our community and learn from each other. I hope that this Discord server is a way for all of us to find more people who understand our practices and the songs we carry in our hearts. I can’t wait to see what all of you have to share and say.
One last thing: Boston area LGBTQ+ folks, Georden West is looking for extras for their forthcoming feature. Interested? Fill out this form.
In solidarity,
Gabby
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Emergency Funds
The Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for Artists with Disabilities due June 15th
Artist Relief Cycle XIII due June 23rd
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
Inspired by Words due June 7th (TODAY)
Art Trail due June 11th
Open Screen due June 13th
POOL 21 due June 14th
Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest due June 15th
Artist of the Month: Pride due June 20th
Light from Space #1 – The Sun due June 20th
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Earlybird Deadline June 30th
Fracto Film Encounter due July 1st
AIR Gallery due July 4th
Slamdance Early Deadline due July 5th
Visions of Nature due July 7th
Film Fest Kodama Regular Deadline July 15th
Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival Regular Deadline July 20th
Blacksphere festival Early bird late Deadline June 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
Media City Film Festival due July 30th
Blacksphere festival Regular Deadline June 30th
2021 Punto y Raya Festival due August 2nd
Film Fest Kodama August Deadline August 4th
On Media. Signals and Connections due August 7th
ExperimentoBio 2021 due August 15th
Slamdance Regular Deadline due July 5th
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
Garage Gallery due June 7th (TODAY)
Remote_CTRL R&D Residency due June 7th (TODAY)
Hybrida residency due June 13th
Stove Works Artist-in-Residence due June 15th
Columbia Law School’s Artist-in-Residence due June 15th
The Firelight Media Documentary Lab due June 15th
(Egg)celerator Lab due June 22nd
Caldera AIR due June 25th
ACE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE due June 25th
Swimming in AIR (remote) due June 25th
North Star Fellowship due June 28th
Artists-In-ATHICA due June 30th
Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship due June 30th
Women In Film Finishing Fund due June 30th
Light Work Artist-in-Residence due July 1st
LEF/CIFF Fellowship due July 5th
Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship due July 9th
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
The Everyday Projects due June 7th (TODAY)
Innovate Grant due June 10th
ITVS due June 11th
Points North Fellowship Extended Deadline June 14th
Black Lens Filmmaker Grant due June 15th
Filmed by Bike: BIPOC Filmmaker Grant due June 15th
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
Interchange Artist Grant due July 5th
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)
Chavela (June 2nd – 8th)
Nour Ouayda, Towards the Sun (May 29th – June 11th)
Rossella Biscotti, Disorientation Notes (May 29th – June 11th)
Grau, History of Light (May 29th – June 11th)
Suneil Sanzgiri, Letter From Your Far-Off Country (May 29th – June 11th)
Rina B. Tsou, The Horrible Thirty (May 29th – June 11th)
Darol Olu Kae, I ran from it and was still in it (May 29th – June 11th)
The Shifting Ecologies of Photochemical Film in the Digital Era (June 7th – 11th)
Luxando (June 4th – 13th)
Handtinting (June 4th – 13th)
Athyrium filix-femina (June 4th – 13th)
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival (June 9th – 13th)
Chto Delat, Border Musical (May 19th – June 15th)
The Power of Love: Three Trans Stories (June 9th – 15th)
Cousins and Kin: Shelley Niro’s Honey Moccasin (May 16th – June 15th)
For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women (May 18th – June 18th)
Who Will Start Another Fire (June 11th – 24th)
They Still Want to Kill Us (May 26th – July 31st)
TEFF: Director’s Choice Collection 2021 (June 1st – August 1st)
Elle Pérez Works Between the Frame
Things to Read
Article/Essay: Artists Joan E. Biren (JEB), Lola Flash, and Tiona Nekkia McClodden on Lesbian Visibility by Maximilíano Durón
Book Recommendation: With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
Poem: Pluto Shits on the Universe by Fatimah Asghar
Things to Do
Assignment: This month, I challenge all of you to make a film in two weeks. Your goal should be to make something you can submit to festivals/open calls in two weeks. Your assignment this week is to find your accountability person/group. These should be other people undertaking this challenge that you can check in with about their progress and share your own. If you’re feeling isolated from other experimental people, I decided to make us a Discord server! By next week, you should be prepared to enter the production phase–this idea phase does not count as part of your two weeks.
Journal: For Pride Month, we’re writing letters. Each Pride Monday, I’m going to ask you to write a letter to someone. That person can be living or dead, real or fictional. You don’t have to share this letter in any way, but obviously if you feel brave and open go for it. I want to leave you with the quote that inspired me to share this: “Letter writing is transformative. Letter writing is harm reduction” – Red, Survived & Punished
2) Write to a queer/trans elder. Remember their context. Consider the trails they blazed for you (yes, even you cishet folks). Tell them how they and their contemporaries softened the earth for your landing.
