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Sofia, Bulgaria

InterSpace Association
Transitland EUROPA Commissioned Videos

Open Call for Proposals
http://transitland.eu/?p=28

Transitland EUROPA invites artists, filmmakers, documentarists, and
activists from the 10 new EU member-states to submit proposals for
producing new videos that creatively interpret the phenomenon of
“transition.” A jury will select 10 proposals, each receiving an award of
3000 euro for production, including expenses and fee.
90 older works (1989 to 2008) and 10 newly commissioned videos (2008) will
be selected for the archive by a jury of co-organisers and external
experts.

The output of the project includes the production of archive jukeboxes and
DVD compilations that will travel to different venues in Europe, a website
and online version of the archive for international access, the production
and distribution of a print publication and DVD insert, and a combination
of screenings, exhibitions and conferences in Berlin (Feb 2009), Sofia
(Mar 2009), and Bucharest (Apr 2009).

Artists, filmmakers, documentarists, activists from Bulgaria, Romania,
Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia,
Estonia are eligible.

There are no age restrictions.

Genres: Documentary, docu-fiction, experimental narrative, poetic
monologue, or hybrid forms on the edge of documentary are welcome (fiction
film and documentation of artistic performance are excluded).

Length: 15 - 45 minutes

The proposed video should connect to the theme of Transitland EUROPA -
transition in the former communist countries – preferably with a focus on
the recent changes following last 2 accession rounds.

It is possible, but not required, for the video to engage one of these
subtopics:
1. the meaning of communism and postcommunism and the significance of the
revolutions
2. new forms of activism and civic engagement, and the meaning of civil
society
3. the changing role of the mass-media, advertising and consumer culture
4. markets and labour: privatisation, delocalisation, migration,
precarity, social protections
5. borders: disintegration of old unions, creation of new ones,
territorial re-mappings, wars
6. nationalisms: old & new forms of fascism, discrimination of ethnic
minorities & human rights
7. gender: commodification of sexuality, changing gender representations,
inequality of labour

The award of 3000 Euro (for production, inclusive of expenses and fee)
will be transferred to selected participants in two rounds - 50% before
production and the remaining 50% after receiving the completed work.

The videos produced in the frame of the project will become part of the
archive of 100 works and will be presented in a series of screenings,
exhibitions and conferences in Bulgaria (at the launch in Sofia and one
follow up event), Romania (at the launch in Bucharest and Cluj and one
follow up event) and Germany (at the launch in Berlin and one follow up
event) in 2009. The authors of the commissioned videos are expected to
participate in a screening at the launch in Sofia (4 days in March 2009,
all expenses covered) and to make a presentation of their work.

In addition the videos will be included in the online archive on the
project website and as a DVD insert in the print publication, which will
include a compendium of all the videos in the archive (descriptions, still
images and artists’ contact info), an introductory overview, 9 interviews
with theorists, curators and artists, and 16 newly commissioned essays
that examine transition and EU accession in a theoretical framework while
also making specific references to videos in the archive.

The authors of the videos will receive no additional fee for the
screenings and disseminations that are part of this project, but can
request fees for any subsequent screenings by any other institution, in
any other contexts. The Transitland EUROPA team will also do its best to
promote the re-screening and re-dissemination of the works by other
institutions and venues with additional screening fees going directly to
authors.

The Transitland EUROPA team prefer the authors producing the commissioned
videos to CopyLeft their works (permitting free access and dissemination
as long as it is non-commercial – this would include internet,
educational, research and non-profit use, but exclude use by festivals,
museums, cinemas or other venues that charge entrance fees) or,
alternatively, to use a Creative Commons license (an attribution,
noncommercial, nonderivative license). In the event of objections,
copyright can remain with the authors, as long as they agree that their
videos are included in the screenings, website and publication connected
to this project.



data limita: 15/03/08

Kontakt:
InterSpace Association
27 Benkovski str, entrance B, floor 1, ap. 18
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria
tel: +359 2 983 48 43
info la transitland.eu
http://transitland.eu/

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