Hello Experimenters!
Shanah tovah to everyone celebrating Rosh Hashanah. May your year be sweet and full of wonder.
In other news, I have to draw attention to the lovely and talented Shannon Silva this week. The film she worked on during our 2 Week Film Challenge this summer is beginning its festival run (more here). If you get the chance to check out To Live and Die in the Shadows: Ferns, Survival, and Horizontal Gene Transfer I highly recommend that you do.
Keep sharing your news, everyone! I want to brag about how lovely you are.
In solidarity,
Gabby
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Emergency Funds
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
PCA COVID-19 NEA Emergency Grants
Calls for Entry
Ignite Street Food & Fire Festival due September 7th (TODAY)
Freedom for Free due September 7th (TODAY)
Light Matter Film Festival due September 10th
Festival Prisme #4 Deadline September 13th
Punto de Vista due September 19th
IFFR Deadline September 22nd
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Earlybird September 24th
World Cyanotype Day 2021 due September 25th
Call Out to Curators for FAB Festival 2022 due September 26th
Recess: Critical Writing due September 30th
RISC due September 30th
EURASIA PHOTO CONTEST due September 30th
Biennale della Fotografia Femminile due September 30th
SPLICE Film Fest Early Bird Deadline September 30th
Moinho Cine Fest due September 30th
Outsider 2022 due October 1st
Political Statement due October 7th
Images Festival due October 15th
Thomas Edison Film Festival Regular Deadline October 15th
Visibility & Remembrance: Standing with the Trans* Community due October 20th
ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival: BLUE/S! Regular Deadline October 23rd
VII nodoCCS Video Festival 2021 due October 30th
Experiments in Cinema Regular Deadline November 1st
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival Regular Deadline November 10th
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Regular Deadline November 26th
SPLICE Film Fest Regular Deadline December 24th
Open Residencies & Fellowships
AirLand due September 10th
Princeton Arts Fellow due September 14th
Abbott Watts Residency due September 15th
Episkeptes Residency due September 15th
HAMBIDGE RESIDENCIES – Spring 22 due September 15th
Bloedel Reserve Creative Residency due September 15th
Artists Unchained Virtual Residency due September 16th
Sauerbier House artist in residence program due September 27th
Fort Union National Monument Residency due September 30th
Usine Utopik due October 3rd
Enclave Land Art Residency due October 10th
VisArts Next Generation Studio Fellowship 2022 due November 1st
The Loisaida Center Emerging Artist Residency
SomoS Berlin Virtual Artist Residency
Open Funds
Diversity Development Fund due September 17th
AXS Film Fund due September 17th
Guggenheim Fellowship due September 17th
Black Public Media due October 1st
F.E.A.S.T. at VisArts 2021 MUTUAL AID due October 1st
2022 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship due October 4th
Black Artists Grant (UK)
Things to Watch
Remains to be Streamed, IG Live (Ongoing, Tuesdays 8PM PT)
Happy Valley by Simon Liu (August 26th – September 9th)
Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance (September 8th – 14th)
An Other Cinema: Apparatus and Histories (September 6th – 20th)
Abolition Now! (August 30th – September 20th)
A Broken Mirror Still Reflects (September 1st – 30th)
‘A Subjective Reality’ A performance by Isabel Fredeus (September 2nd – October 2nd)
MOVING IMAGE SALON – ONLINE / 18th SEPT 9-11 AM ET (sign up now)
Lah gah (Letting go) by Cécile Brun
Things to Read
Article/Essay: The Places Bodies Can’t Reach by Mia You
Book Recommendation: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Poem: Untitled poem for Ms. Pamela Echols by Dominique Christina (poem starts around 7 minutes in)
Things to Do
Assignment: Let’s take this week to tidy up. This isn’t the sexiest assignment, but it is an important part of maintaining a sustainable practice. This can be a physical space where you experiment/make work, a digital space where you store assets and materials, or your mental space where you likely have a number of partial ideas and goals that may need cataloging and saving for later. Take some time this week to get organized and prepared to dive into some more creative work.
Journal: What’s your block at the moment? Maybe you feel mentally/creatively stuck or maybe your body is giving you some trouble or maybe it’s just having to work for a living. What is the thing/things that are keeping you from putting your focus and attention where you want it? Name those things. Don’t worry about fixing them, just acknowledge what they are to yourself.
