Check out this fun little challenge from WOOLOO.org to take any broadcast commercial, cut it, dub it, repeat it, or flip it and make it art.
Artists, producers, directors kids, adults and non-art people are invited to submit a manipulated “commercial” of up to 60 seconds in length using a broadcast commercial as the raw footage. Each submission may utilize the video and audio in any way and may include other footage; pretty much everything is eligible. Videos must be under 3MB in length in MOV, AVI, WMV, and FLVf ormats.
All submitted and accepted videos will be available at www.apexart.org/videocall.htm and will be presented in an exhibition at apexart from November 10 – December 22, 2010. During the exhibition’s run, videos will be voted on by visitors of the exhibition space and the website. The top five works will be presented on a public screen in Manhattan and the creator of the top scoring work will receive a $2,000 cash prize.
All work must be submitted by Sunday, October 31, 2010. Applications are welcomed and encouraged from around the world. Commercials do not have to be in English.
GUIDELINES:
•Please be sure to provide us with the following information on your application: full name, email address, city, state or country, title of video.
• Videos will be accepted ONLINE ONLY now through October 31, 2010.
• Videos should be submitted in MOV, AVI, WMV, and FLV formats and under 3MB. All videos must be under 60 seconds.
• You will receive an e-mail confirmation upon submission. If you do not, please contact us at info@apexart.org
The 2010 Vimeo Festival + Awards are nearly upon us, with tons of great events in the calendar, and some special events with Shooting People and the One Day On Earth project. If you’re a Vimeo member, you can register for free to attend the conference using the code
“Plus100″. See you there…
Making it all the more difficult to build a vibrant community of filmmakers in the 5 Boroughs, The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting in New York City has proposed a new $300 fee for applications to help “ease the city’s budget difficulties”. For projects that are operating on very low budgets, there may be some relief: The Mayor’s office will waive the new project application fee in cases of “unreasonable hardship.” Either way, the proposed fee just creates another hoop to jump through for both established and emerging filmmakers in this city like us.
The proposed bill has been in review for 30 days. TODAY a hearing will take place at 125 Worth Street, 2nd floor auditorium at 2PM at which members of the public may testify. So if you’re in the neighborhood, stop by and let ‘em know that their proposed fee will only serve to lose them time and money spent processing our fee-waiver paperwork!
The New York Underground Film Festival (RIP 1993 – 2008) was reborn last year as Migrating Forms, an experimental film fest that takes place in May at Anthology Film Archives in New York.
For all you experimental filmmakers, their deadline for 2010 entries is swiftly approaching on Feb 15, with an extended deadline of March 15 if you’re still working on your (weird) masterpiece.
I attended the fest last year and the caliber of work was really impressive…good luck!
