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Call for entries: 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
		<mailto:forward at interra34.ru>forward at interra34.ru

 
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		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 patiosŠ 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 worldŠ
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

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