[spectre] Call for entries- Difference Screen

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Difference Screen seeks artists' short single screen films for a traveling project in Europe, Asia, North America

‘Difference Screen’ will present a portable programme of artists’ film and video, mostly from the last decade, in locations across Europe, Asia and America - a collection of references and reflections that propose notions of difference and the dynamics of place, landscape, identity and culture.

The project will launch in England in 2013 before traveling abroad.  After an initial screening in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, the project will be seen at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London before touring to venues internationally. Artists/filmmakers will be invited to speak at each event about their work where possible (or make contributions remotely). Organizers Bruce Allan and Ben Eastop are currently compiling a long-list before selection for the eventual programme(s).

We're looking for short films under 15 mins but some will be longer. Diverse approaches range from experimental to documentary.

Deadline for submissions: 15 August

To submit a film for consideration please send an online link to your film to Bruce Allan dhoolie.bruce at gmail.com

 


Difference Screen

Explorations of how the dynamics of place, landscape, identity and culture find expression in artists' film and video

The worldwide spread of artists’ moving image practice over the past 30 or 40 years, since the experimental years of the 60s and 70s, has coincided with global events of historical magnitude: the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the 9/11 attack on New York and subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world financial crisis of 2008 and ongoing economic tremors in Europe and recently the Arab Spring movements for democratic change. There is a sense of a massive shifting in social, political and economic tectonics, like slipping geological fault lines, as the old order is challenged by the rising economies of China, India and others.  We live in an age of uncertainty and change, but also of promise in the unknown. Human endeavor through science probes the boundaries of the world as we know it. New possibilities for creative potential have emerged, exploited by artists in places once overlooked, exposed to view like overturned stones to wider audiences wired into global social and media networks.

 Difference Screen presents an international programme of artists’ film and video, mostly from the last decade, in locations around the world, not as a survey of events but a collection of references and reflections through artists’ vision and imagination that expresses notions of difference. Some of the works are intimate, moving, and sometimes personal, but in many, landscape is a common reference point. Landscape, social conflict and change have been inextricably connected over millennia – this is not landscape an idealized pictorial view, but one where human intervention is always present, a dynamic and continuous landscape, hinting of recent extinctions of previous social orders, or the faultiness of interminable social conflict – rusting Soviet era cable cars reaching between precarious hilltop stations in Chiatura, Georgia, to the mega scale lights of gambling Las Vegas just 75 miles from the 1950s nuclear test sites in Nevada USA. This is also landscape of the city and urban architecture, vertiginous, multifaceted, or a dystopian concrete architectural vision, Brusselization.

Exploiting the portability of the medium, the programme will travel from the UK to locations and venues across Europe, Asia and America. The idea of difference will be brought into focus at each venue, resulting in resonance or dissonance depending on the relationship between the content of the works and the location and context of the venue. The experience of attending each screening event is therefore as important as the works themselves, and will be further enhanced by contributions of artist-filmmakers, where possible, at each venue.

 This journey of artists’ film will be recorded via a Difference Screen blog from venue to venue, and archived on a Difference Screen website.
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