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Subject: [artbox] Fwd: Call for entries: Volgograd International video
festival Forward»2018
From:    "Iara Boubnova" <iaraica la spnet.net>
Date:    Mon, April 7, 2008 09:51
To:      "Artbox BG" <artbox la groups.cult.bg>
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> Date: April 7, 2008 1:05:29  GMT+03:00
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> Subject: Call for entries: Volgograd International video festival
> Forward»2018
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> Call for entries: Volgograd International video festival Forward»2018
> Volgograd International video festival Forward»2018
> Art Incubator "Videology"
> 400131, Russia, Volgograd, Prospekt Lenina, 21, GUK Volgograd
> Museum of Graphic Arts
> Phone: +79061685301
> Fax: +79061685301
> Contact: Fedor Yermolov
> forward la interra34.ru
>
> http://www.forward.interra34.ru/english.htm
>
> DEADLINE
> For works sent by snail-mail – 20th of April 2008.
> For works sent by FTP – 1st of May 2008.
>
> Volgograd International video festival Forward»2018
> Invites artists and curators to participate
>
> Volgograd International Video Festival Forward»2018 announces the
> start of accepting works and invites artists and curators to
> participate. Festival will take place in Volgograd in May-June 2008
> and it is planned that it will have the usual cinema hall format as
> well as online format in the Internet. It will allow presenting the
> festival programme not only to local, but also world wide audience.
> Works of multiple genres can participate: from short-length films
> and video art to animated cartoons and documentaries.
> It will be the Civil Jury that will evaluate the works, and it will
> involve specialists of different culture areas, but also, what is
> no less important – Citizens of Volgograd, recognizing their
> personal responsibility for social and cultural situation in the
> city. Besides, a Prize of Audience"s Sympathy will be awarded.
>
>
> Manifest
> Volgograd is an extraordinary city. Extraordinary and sophisticated
> – in many ways. It emerged from ruins in times of the Golden Horde
> in "no man"s land" between Europe and Asia (initially the fortress
> stood on an island amid mighty Volga, which was a boundary river
> then). Three times the city changed its name (and made it into
> history under sinister name of Stalin – it is here, in Stalingrad,
> where the decisive battle of the Second World War took place). It
> changed its appearance – from wooden fort to redbrick merchant
> town, from a pile of burnt bricks of war times to Empire style
> haughty polis. It incurved along the Volga bank – a pulsating vein
> of Russia, with a dot-and-dashed line (or rather unread Morse code
> message, where dots are plants and dashes – residential areas).
> Here everything is intermittent and pulsating. Vertical lines of
> sky scrapers under construction (and the main vertical – Mother
> Russia monument, the highest in the world), interlace with low
> blocks of residential houses; local transport-miracle – express
> tramway – dives underground, and then again comes on surface to
> broad daylight; a street rumble of a million-people-city changes to
> patriarchal silence of old patios
 Everything is dashed and pulsating.
> So is the city"s cultural life. For the past few years Volgograd
> got acquainted with modern art on an international level again.
> Again – because before post-perestroika still air period
> international avant-garde art festivals already rioted here, the
> first of them being not in Russia even, but still in USSR. And
> again a new generation of modern artists appeared in the city –
> video-artists included. Not spouted from the old perestroika
> generation – but rather, jumped out of void, out of a pause in
> total Volgograd pulse.
> It"s exactly for this new, unknown generation (and by its forces)
> that this festival is being prepared. As a launching point, as a
> territory for a dialogue with equal young video-makers from all
> around the world

> This festival is for the young in the first place. The number 2018
> in the name of the festival is not a misprint, since today we
> invite to show their debut creative work those people who in 10
> years time, in 2018, will become a formed core of modern art, We
> want to look forward together with You, forward into next decade.
> We want to show ourselves – to the city and to the world. We are
> not afraid of putting ourselves into world cultural context – even
> if the comparison would not be in our favour – and we invite young
> artists to come forward together with us. We invite the senior to
> show us their excellence. We want to learn, want to find our own
> place in modern culture. And perhaps, and why not – to lay
> foundation of a new local cultural tradition, which would not be
> intermitted.
>
>
> Planned programmes
> Forward– competitive programme for young artists (under 33 years of
> age).
> REview – Competitive programme for artists above 33 years of age.
> Each artist can submit TWO works, one of which represents the
> opening stage of his creative work, and the other – today"s stage.
>
> DEADLINE
> For works sent by snail-mail – 20th of April 2008.
> For works sent by FTP – 1st of May 2008.
>
> Festival"s organizers
> "Art-incubator "Videology" workshop with support from Volgograd
> regional NGO "Centre for cultural initiatives development" "InTerra".
>
> Contact information
> Address: 400131, Russia, Volgograd, Prospekt Lenina, 21, GUK
> Volgograd Museum of Graphic Arts
>
> mail: forward[a]interra34.ru
>
> http://www.forward.interra34.ru/english.htm
>
>