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24th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival 2007
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Deadline: August 1, 2007
Entry form is attached
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The 24th edition of the Kassel Documentary Film
and Video Festival is going to take place from
November 13 to 18, 2007. On six days the festival
presents about 220 international documentary
films as well as experimental and artistic works.
Moreover, the media art exhibition MONITORING,
the DokfestLounge with audiovisual performances
and the interfiction symposium do top off the
festival program. Having this profile the
Kasseler Dokfest annually attracts both a
regional audience as well as professionals of the
film and media industry from Germany, Europe and the rest of the world.
We invite all artists, filmmakers, distributors,
gallery owners, universities or institutions to
submit latest works and projects to the different
sections of the festival program. Deadline for entries is August 1, 2007.

DOCUMENTARYFILMVIDEOART
The documentary film traditionally makes up the
heart of the festival. Thus, the festival puts
its main emphasis on films and videos exploring
their subject by documentary means. The festival
is also interested in experimental and artistic
works expressing an individual approach. There is
no restriction in terms of the running time of submitted
works.

MONITORING
The exhibition MONITORING is devoted to
contemporary space-oriented media art. 15 media
installations and sculptures are selected among
the entries and displayed at Kassel KulturBahnhof
during the festival. The exhibition is organized
in cooperation with the Kasseler Kunstverein and
the documenta Archive of the City of Kassel.

AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
The lounge of the festival presents a program of
audiovisual performances and VJart. This section
is calling for live visuals, audiovisual
performance concepts, Live Cinema, sound
performances and any kind of experiments, produced in analog or digital
media.

INTERFICTION
This year’s interfiction symposium (with
lectures, presentations and workshop-sessions)
will focus on “PATCH_WORK: art, culture and
knowledge production between commons and DRM”.
Artists, video- and filmmakers, researchers,
curators, writers, activists and others
interested in transdisciplinary exchange on the
related issues are invited to join the conference
and to discuss their ideas and projects. Call for
contributions and further information: www.interfiction.org

AWARDS
A selection of the presented films and art works
of the festival program will be nominated for one
of the four awards. The festival seeks to support
the best documentary submitted by a young
director. Therefore, the City of Kassel endows €
5,000 for the “Golden Key” award. The
newsspaper HNA awards an outstanding production
from the region of Northern Hesse with its
“Golden Hercules”, worth € 2,,500. This year,
Micromata Objects GmbH, a Kassel located Software
Company, supports the “Golden Cube” with €
2,500 in prize money, which is awarded to the
best installation of the exhibition MONITORING.
Moreover, the festival and the Werkleitz
Gesellschaft present the project grant “A38”.
The three-month artist-in-residence grant, worth
€ 4,000 and additionally €â‚¬ 4,000 for allowance
in kind, is funded by the Austauschfonds Ost-West
of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.

SPLICE IN
The 24th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival
presents the special program “/splice in/”
curated by Elfe Brandenburger and Sandra
Schäfer. Proceeding from the specific situation
of film production in Afghanistan, “/splice
in/” enquires into the representation of gender
relations in current film productions,
particularly the first films made by women, but
also in historical films from the archive Afghan
Film and brings them together with filmic and
political methods from Iran, India, Pakistan and
Europe. More information can be found at: www.mazefilm.de

We are looking forward to your entries and to an
inspiring 24th edition of the Dokfest in Kassel!
Best regards,
the Dokfest-team

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24. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest 2007
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Deadline: 1. August 2007



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