Dreamcatcher Call for Participation

[anna balint]

"Nadya Prigodich" <prigodich at svitonline.com>

Please find attached call for participation in DREAMCATCHER,
international video art and short films festival in Kiev, Ukraine
(September 6-9th, 2002).
Thank you for consideration. We would greatly appreciate if you could
give this information to anyone interested. Sorry if any crossposting
occur.
Sincerely,
Nadya Prigodich and Olya Zhuk
Dreamcatcher curators


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION



Dreamcatcher, International Video Art and Short Films Festival
announces
call for participation in its 5th year competition program.



Dates of the festival: September 6-9th , 2002
Location: Kiev, Ukraine

Dreamcatcher festival emerged in Kiev, Ukraine in 1998 with the aim to
generate artistic environment for experiment and investigation in screen
media, which would expand the aesthetic and narrative parameters of
traditional film and video. It started as low-budget one-night open-air
competition screening and by 2000 developed to important 3 days
international event, at which different technologies, genres, media and
cultural groups can meet. In 2001 Dreamcatcher competition in video art
and short film featured about 60 works from Ukraine, Russia, Moldova,
Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, UK, USA, Canada,
France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Israel.  Each year the festival also
presents a broad off-competition program with critical focus that
features the latest tendencies in the moving image art  from new
electronic technologies to low-budget strategies in artistic production
 through exhibitions and symposium, as well as special presentations by
international artists, festivals, curators, and critics.

Specific requirements and conditions:

- deadline for submissions July 1st , 2002
- short works created between 2000-2002
- preview format VHS
- complete application forms
- the tapes are not mailed back to the applicants
- the organizers do not carry responsibility for the tapes lost during
mailing, late or damaged mail

The works are selected for screening by the festival committee. The
applicants will be notified on selection by August 15th, 2002.

Competition is subdivided to nominations video art and short film,
and is judged by international jury that is each year different.


Contact:

Postal address:

Nadya Prigodich, Olya Zhuk
RA Gallery, vul. B. Khmelnitskogo 32, Kiev 01030, Ukraine

e-mail: rustik at i.com.ua , prigodich at svitonline.com