[spectre] Call for Videotapes: THE OLIVE PROJECT

[JSalloum at aol.com]

Call for Videotapes:

THE OLIVE PROJECT
Two Minutes for Peace & Justice
A Hard Pressed/Charles St. Video Collaboration

The olive tree has been a long standing source of nourishment and livelihood 
for many peoples around the Mediterranean Sea. Images of olive branches and 
leaves have been used to symbolize peace for millennia. Olive oil is also a 
potent food, a rich salve, a currency, an energy source, and a site of 
struggle.

Since the 'second' Intifada in Palestine and Israel, the olive harvest in the 
Occupied Palestinian Territories has been disrupted by violence, with Israeli 
military forces and settlers preventing Palestinian farmers from bringing in 
the crop. Since 1967, more than 200,000 olive trees have been uprooted by 
Israeli forces from Palestinian land. This has prompted a campaign by 
hundreds of international and Israeli volunteers to provide protection for 
Palestinian olive farmers and help them harvest their crop and prevent their 
theft and destruction by Israeli settlers.

Make a two minute videotape for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine. 
Use olive oil/olives/olive groves/olive trees etc. as a component. Any style, 
any angle, hi-tech or homemade. Personal, outrageous, heartfelt. Two minutes. 
Definitely oily.

A jury will select approximately 20 tapes from around the world, with special 
emphasis on works by Israeli and Palestinian artists. This 'videogrove' will 
premiere in Toronto, Canada, at The Tranz<---->Tech International Media Art 
Biennial in October 2003, which coincides with this year's olive harvest.  

Selected works will be posted online as a website, and distributed as a 
compilation fundraiser for a non-profit Palestinian video collective or 
cultural organization. Fees will be paid for the selected videos.

Deadline: July 31, 2003

Send completed exhibition quality tapes (Mini-DV preferred) to:
The Olive Project
Charles St. Video
68 Bellwoods Ave.
Toronto, Canada, M6J 3N4

MORE QUESTIONS?: The Olive Oil project entry form is available on the Charles 
Street Video: www.CharlesStreetVideo.com (select 'Opportunities' & then 
'Calls for Sumission'). A new section on the website containing background 
info on the olive harvest, solidarity efforts, 
etc. will be available starting May 20th.

FOR MORE INFO, email Greg Woodbury at: 
csv at charlesstreetvideo.com 

THE OLIVE PROJECT: Two Minutes for Peace & Justice is a project of the Hard 
Pressed Collective and Charles Street Video.  The Hard Pressed Collective is 
a group of video artists working in support of a just peace in 
Israel/Palestine.  This project was inspired by the solidarity efforts around 
the olive harvest in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.  
Members include: Riad Bahhur, Richard Fung, Rebecca Garrett, John Greyson, 
Jayce Salloum, and b.h. Yael.  The Olive Project coordinator at Charles 
Street Video is Greg Woodbury.