[Reader-list] CALL FOR PROPOSALS: MONITOR 7: New South Asian Film and Video

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

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> From: Ayesha Hameed <ah at kein.org>
> Date: 14 October 2010 1:12:36 AM GMT+05:30
> To: MFA <mfastudioarts at concordia.ca>, Visual Cultures Department  
> <vis-cultures at gold.ac.uk>, spectre at mikrolisten.de,  
> CACS at lists.mcgill.ca
> Subject: [spectre] CALL FOR PROPOSALS: MONITOR 7: New South Asian  
> Film and Video
>
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> MONITOR 7: New South Asian Film and Video
> DEADLINE: November 10, 2010
>
> SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) invites submissions for its  
> seventh annual experimental short film and video screening program,  
> Monitor 7.
> Monitor 7 is dedicated to the presentation of experimental short  
> films and videos by/and/or about South Asians from Canada and  
> around the world. We invite independent and innovative short films  
> and videos that explore the aesthetic and form of the moving image  
> and its relation to narrative. Monitor 7 encourages new,  
> experimental and risk-taking work that challenges the viewer’s  
> active engagement.
>
> Selected works will be screened at the sixth annual short film and  
> video program, Monitor 7 in March 2011 in Toronto, Canada.
> Monitor 7 will be curated by Ayesha Hameed (video artist, writer  
> and currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research  
> Architecture, Goldsmiths) in collaboration with a MONITOR Jury (TBC).
>
> Works must be under 20 minutes and produced after 2008.
> Submissions from first time directors are welcome. Artists’ fees  
> will be paid.
> Submissions should be sent on DVD (PAL, NTSC) enclosed with the  
> following:
> - Name artist or director
> - Full contact information (address, phone, fax, email)
> - Title of work
> - Date of production
> - Brief synopsis of the work
> - Brief biography of the artist
> - High-resolution production stills
>
>
> Send all materials to:
> SAVAC – MONITOR 7
> 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 450
> Toronto, ON Canada M5V 3A8
> Inquiries can be sent to info at savac.net
>
> All deliveries from international participants must be marked:
> "NO COMMERCIAL VALUE" Please do not claim any monetary value over $50
> on your package for insurance or otherwise or you will be charged  
> customs,
> duties and taxes.
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> All submissions must be sent prepaid. SAVAC will not accept collect  
> or C.O.D.
> shipments and will not accept shipments incurring expenses for  
> duties, taxes or customs brokerage.
>
> Please note that only selected artists will be contacted.  
> Submissions will only be returned if the package includes a self- 
> addressed stamped envelope (in Canadian postage) or send a cheque  
> payable to SAVAC for the return postage amount.
>
> For more information, please contact:
> Srimoyee Mitra
> Programming Co-ordinator
> SAVAC [South Asian Visual Arts Centre]
> Telephone: 416.542.1661
> Email: info at savac.net
> Website: www.savac.net
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta
The Sarai Programme at CSDS
Raqs Media Collective
shuddha at sarai.net
www.sarai.net
www.raqsmediacollective.net