“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.” – ITALO CALVINO INVISIBILE CITIES
VIDEOKILLS & CITIES IN THE DARK present… INVISIBLE CITY SYMPHONIES
Videos with Live Musical scores…
This is a CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS going out to video and film artists, animators, experimenters, installation artists, and musicians… AND A CHANCE TO BE EXHIBITED IN BERLIN and LONDON.
WHAT: VIDEOKILLS PRESENTS: THE EXPLORER SERIES: INVISIBLE CITY SYMPHONIES #2 BERLIN
WHEN:
London: July 10th, 2010
Berlin: July 23rd, 2010
WHERE:
London: Silwex Project Space
Berlin: .HBC
THE PROJECT: The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies is looking for submissions from filmmakers in cities all around the world – abstract, visually based, narrative, found footage, animation, etc. – of silent works of varying lengths. The only requirement is that the work portrays in some regard the experience of a city, or a series of cities – contemporarily, historically, visibly or invisibly.
These works will then be given to musicians to compose an original score– classical, electronic, jazz, metal, originally recorded field sounds, animal noises, sounds clips, dialogue, etc. – and the pieces will then be shown with a live accompaniment in the tradition of the early silent cinematic experience.
CITIES: The purpose is to connect international artists and the landscapes of different cities with a visceral sound and image experience – blurring boundaries of how we see space, urbanity, and the growing internationalization and globalization of visual and aural perception.
VIDEOKILLS, as an international collective with wide reaching artistic ambition, curated the event first in New York, and yes! Berlin and London this July.
CITIES IN THE DARK: Cities In The Dark is a London based collective exploring aspects of human dynamism in relation to lo-fi interfaces between humans and their technological environment. Predominantly involving bicycles, electronics, video and DIY engineering, our journey has taken us from our beginnings in mid 2008 organizing urban power cut events in the East end of London through to gallery installations and bike races in Uganda.
www.citiesinthedark.com
BERLIN DATES AND DEADLINES:
June 28th – Deadline for Visual Submissions
June 29th – Sound and music composition begins
July 15th – Deadline Sound and music submission
TO SUBMIT VIDEOS AND FILMS: Send your submission to submissions@videokills.com via sendspace.com (300mb) or contact us if you have a larger file.
Along with an email attachment with the following information:
- Name of all participants
- Length of piece
- Format
- Country/Location of participants
TO COMPOSE/DESIGN SOUND:
Send an email to submissions@videokills.com expressing your interest ASAP and the following information:
- The names of all participants
- Possible genres/instruments/sounds if you’d like to tell us about your style. (This is not a commitment and obviously once you receive the video you are free to compose/design as you see fit. This is just to give us a concept for possible interesting pairings.)
SOUND PARTICIPANTS: We will send you a video on June 29th to compose/design the sound for. NOTE: **YOU MUST BE ABLE TO PERFORM LIVE AT THE SCREENING**
For any questions please contact jj@videokills.com / tiphaine@videokills.com
Thanks and feel free to pass this along.
all the best from London and Berlin…
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