Hello Experimenters!
Teaching last week was amazing! I continue to be amazed by my students’ enthusiasm and willingness to experiment in class. I wish I could say I succeeded in my 30 minutes of work mini-challenge, but hopefully I can make up the time once my students are in project mode. How did you do?
Just a heads up: I’ll be away next week doing some filmmaker type things with Cucalorus & Working Films. I’ll be back in your inbox in two weeks. Send me things to post!
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
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
FONLAD 2021 due September 30th
Revart Vertical Experience 2021 due September 30th
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
Orphans 2022: Counter-Archives due October 1st
Film Diary: NYC Festival of Home Video and Personal Documentary due October 1st
Analog Cookbook: Special Edition due October 1st
Outsider 2022 due October 1st
Primal Disposition due October 2nd
San Francisco International Film Festival Early Deadline October 5th
Political Statement due October 7th
TONDO: Round Works due October 4th
Wintertide Light Art Experience 2021 due October 10th
DIAMETRALE Early Birds October 11th
Tarkovsky Revisited due October 15th
Images Festival due October 15th
Thomas Edison Film Festival Regular Deadline October 15th
Visibility & Remembrance: Standing with the Trans* Community due October 20th
The Norfolk Way Art Trail due October 20th
ESMoA Video Art + Film Festival: BLUE/S! Regular Deadline October 23rd
VII nodoCCS Video Festival 2021 due October 30th
Online Featured Photographer 2021 due October 31st
apexart NYC – Exhibition Proposals due October 31st
Braziers International Film Festival Early Bird Deadline October 31st
Experiments in Cinema Regular Deadline November 1st
DIAMETRALE Almost Early Birds November 5th
Visions du Réel Deadline No. 1 November 8th
San Francisco International Film Festival Regular/Final Deadline November 9th
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival Regular Deadline November 10th
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Regular Deadline November 26th
Visions du Réel Deadline No. 2 December 17th
SPLICE Film Fest Regular Deadline December 24th
Braziers International Film Festival Regular Deadline January 30th
Open Residencies & Fellowships
Sauerbier House artist in residence program due September 27th
Fort Union National Monument Residency due September 30th
Lighthouse Works Fellowships due October 1st
Usine Utopik due October 3rd
Artist in Residence Witte Rook due October 4
Enclave Land Art Residency due October 10th
Greenbox Artist in Residence due October 15th
VisArts Next Generation Studio Fellowship 2022 due November 1st
The Loisaida Center Emerging Artist Residency
SomoS Berlin Virtual Artist Residency
Open Funds
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
Foundwork Artist Prize due October 10th
Southern Documentary Fund Filmmaking Grant due October 15th
Black Artists Grant (UK)
Things to Watch
Remains to be Streamed, IG Live (Ongoing, Tuesdays 8PM PT)
One Day Pina Asked… (September 15th – 21st)
Maya Deren: Dance on Camera (September 22nd – 28th)
Artists’ Film International (September 1st – 30th)
A Broken Mirror Still Reflects (September 1st – 30th)
DOBRA 2021 (Sept 6 – 30)
Adrift: Alejandro Alonso Estrella (September 25th – 30th)
‘A Subjective Reality’ A performance by Isabel Fredeus (September 2nd – October 2nd)
Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer (September 29th – October 5th)
Crossroads 2021 (September 17th – October 21st)
Strangelove (September 1st – November 31st)
Micro (Sept 24th & October 4th)
KIN THEORY: New Work in Indigenous Media (September 24th 4PM ET)
Archiving Through People: Barbara Hammer (September 30th 7PM ET)
Trans Cinema: An Incomplete History (October 3rd 2pm ET)
Screening No. 5: Five Films by Andrés Baron
Things to Read
Article/Essay: ‘Sometimes, it’s shocking’: Raoul Peck on his bold new colonialism series
Book Recommendation: Ayiti by Roxane Gay
Poem: Extract from The Migration of Walls by James Noël
Haitian lives are Black lives, and they matter.
Things to Do
Assignment: Have friends/family/comrades in IATSE? Reach out. Ask them how they feel right now. Find out how you can support them. If they have asks, send them this way so this community can stand in solidarity with them. Are you a member? Let us know how we can support your struggle for better conditions. Don’t know anyone? Check out @ia_stories on Instagram.
Journal: Let’s make lists! What are the experimental films/videos/projects you have been meaning to watch? Maybe you’ve already got a running list written/typed somewhere. Pick something off of it this week and give it a watch.
