Hello Experimenters!
Writing to all of you from my apartment balcony for what is likely the last time before starting to write to you from my house’s deck. Moving is always stressful, but at least this time we’re moving across town and not across states.
Any home owners out there: please send me things you wish you knew before your first home. I love learning from my seasoned vets.
For everyone else, fear not! There shouldn’t be any delays for newsletter mailings. That said, if anyone is interested in writing for a week or two in the next couple of months I’d love to set you up to do so. Surely, everyone’s a little tired of hearing from me every week.
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
DVAA Everyday Futures Fest due October 15th
Tarkovsky Revisited due October 15th
Images Festival due October 15th
Thomas Edison Film Festival Regular Deadline October 15th
Working Memory due October 17th
Unfair Trade due October 17th
SSJ Neighborhood Network Parklet due October 18th
Grand Union x UoB MA Art History and Curating due October 18th
the wrong biennale due October 20th
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
The Fronteer Open 2021 due October 25th
Blazing New Worlds due October 26th
Cinalfama due October 27th
VII nodoCCS Video Festival 2021 due October 30th
Public Art Commission due October 31st
Artist Support Show due October 31st
Coffee Stories due October 31st
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
New Talents 2021 due November 2nd
DIAMETRALE Almost Early Birds November 5th
Videoart.Ist International Early Deadline November 6th
Visions du Réel Deadline No. 1 November 8th
San Francisco International Film Festival Regular/Final Deadline November 9th
YICCA International Prize of Contemporary Art due November 10th
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival Regular Deadline November 10th
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival Regular Deadline November 26th
Videoart.Ist International Early Deadline November 30th
Analog Cookbook Issue 5 due December 15th
Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition due December 6th
VAO Art Prize due December 15th
Visions du Réel Deadline No. 2 December 17th
SPLICE Film Fest Regular Deadline December 24th
Cinalfama Christmas Deadline December 27th
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Online Competitions due January 3rd
Coney Island Film Festival Earlybird Deadline January 7th
Cinalfama Medium Deadline January 27th
Braziers International Film Festival Regular Deadline January 30th
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen On-Site Competitions due February 1st
Videoart.Ist International Regular Deadline February 27th
Coney Island Film Festival Regular Deadline March 11th
Media Monsters (see Announcements)
Open Residencies & Fellowships
Residency for the EVOLVE project due October 15th
Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency due October 15th
Greenbox Artist in Residence due October 15th
Soft Residency due October 22nd
The ISSP Riga Residency due October 24th
TURN2 Residency due October 24th
KASHIMA BEPPU ARTIST IN RESIDENCE due October 29th
Fort Union National Monument Residency due October 29th
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Residency due October 29th
POLYTOPIA due October 30th
Atelier Circulaire due October 31st
VisArts Emerging Curator Program 2022 due November 1st
Wildacres Residency Program due November 1st
Forge Fellowship due November 1st
VisArts Next Generation Studio Fellowship 2022 due November 1st
Baxter St Residency due November 8th
A.I.R. Fellowship due November 15th
Dry Tortugas National Park Residency due November 15th
Cité internationale des arts residencies programme due November 15th
Immersions 2022 due November 17th
Collide Residency Award due November 22nd
Connecting Communities Digital Initiative due November 22nd
Jan van Eyck Residencies 2022/2023 due December 1st
Plyspace Residency due December 1st
Da Vinci Residency Program due December 1st
Adobe Creative Residency Community Fund (Monthly)
The Loisaida Center Emerging Artist Residency
SomoS Berlin Virtual Artist Residency
Mentoring and Coaching for Creatives
Open Funds
Rogers Cable Network Fund due October 13th
West African Research Center Travel Grant due October 15th
Southern Documentary Fund Filmmaking Grant due October 15th
Public Art for Spatial Justice due October 18th
Braunschweig Projects 2022/2023 due October 27th
HomeGrown: Future Visions October 29th
Frameline Completion Fund due October 31st
India-UK together 2022 due October 31st
MMM AR Accelerator due November 15th
Lightpress Grants due November 30th
Things to Watch
Remains to be Streamed, IG Live (Ongoing, Tuesdays 8PM PT) *Not this week!
The Living Book by Erin Cosgrove (September 30th – October 14th)
Lynda Benglis: Works in Video (October 8th – 15th)
Isabella (October 13th – 19th)
The Glass Note (October 7th – 21st)
New York Kurdish Film and Cultural Festival 2021 (October 7th – 21st)
Crossroads 2021 (September 17th – October 21st)
14th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival (October 14th – 22nd)
Both Sides Now: Queer (October 20th – 23rd)
RPM 21 (October 15th – 24th)
Antimatter [media art] (October 14th – 24th)
Midwest Video Poetry Fest (October 11th – 25th)
Amateur is a Lover (September 16th – October 27th)
Hidden Histories (October 1st – 27th)
Perfect Fifths (September 1st – October 31st)
The Mist That Carries Phantoms (October 2021)
Strangelove (September 1st – November 31st)
Kevin Jerome Everson: The Island of St. Matthews (October 12th at 7:30 ET)
Adrift: Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner (October 15th 10AM ET)
Looking Back at Night Watch (October 18th 6:30PM PT)
Zoom Artist Talk with Hito Steyerl (October 21st)
Moving Image Salon / Oct 2021 (October 23rd 9AM ET)
How to Make a Multi-Plane Animation Stand for Under $200 (or €170) by Tess Martin
Things to Read
Article/Essay: “Poetry That Pulls at the Seams of Colonial Power and Memory” by Dessane Lopez Cassell
Book Recommendation: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Poem: Baleen Scrimshaw as 16mm Film by Cathy Tagnak Rexford
Things to Do
Assignment: Last week, I made my first Parallax before walking my students through the process on Photoshop. Give it a shot using this 24 step process I wrote up last week.
Journal: Last week, I asked you to imagine your ideal audience member for a project you’re working on. This week, get the image of that person back in your mind. Remember every detail. What do you want them to know about you/your film after watching that project?
Announcement
Media Monsters is back for a second series. We want your experimental film and video art! Any length. Any completion date. Send a link and short description to [email protected]
