[artinfo] The Poetic Video Festival

[Janos Sugar]

From: orbita@orbita.lv
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:56:35 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: The Poetic Video Festival

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The Poetic Video Festival

WORD IN MOTION

C A L L    F O R    E N T R I E S ! ! !
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Description

The Poetic Video Festival is one of several events, that will take place in the framework of  A Month of European Culture in Riga - larger program, that offers 
many interesting local and international festivals, parties, exhibitions and 
other events in Riga during August - September, 2001. Video screenings of the 
Poetic Video Festival will be presented in Kinogalerija (Jauniela street # 24) 
September, 15.

The Poetic Video Festival is organized by ORBITA - group of mainly young Russian 
poets and writers, who experiment with spoken text. (www.orbita.lv) Closing 
event of this festival in one of the nightclubs in Riga will include 
interjamming by not only poets, but also vjs and musicians. 

What's behind the concept:
Does pure isolated cultural phenomena exist? Editing, mixing and combining of 
different cultural forms became a universal creative approach long time ago. In 
this context the idea of carrying out the Poetic Video Festival appeared. While 
cinematography has been always closer to the literary genre of novel, video art 
has been created as a "visual poetry", with paradoxicality and laconicism in its 
expression, that is peculiar to the poetic form. The festival organizers decided 
to concentrate on this characteristic of video art and collect works, scattered 
about in time and place, that are created in poetic video genre, combining video 
and poetic texts, where word and image are interchangeable.

Video Collection

Jury will select the best festival works to be included in the video collection 
WORD IN MOTION. This collection (VHS) will be distributed to all participants of 
the festival, editorial offices of the editions dealing with contemporary art 
and literature, and organizers of other video festivals and video galleries. All 
films will be estimated without being nominated. Three winners will be awarded 
modest prizes of the festival.

If you would like to participate.
Please note: that your video should have  a piece of poetry on the basis of the 
visual or semantic text.

Please send a copy of your work and participant questionnaire to:

Poetic Video Festival
Sergejs Timofejevs
PO Box 89
Riga, LV-1010
Latvia
(Phone: +371 6556665; + 371 7213113)
e-mail: orbita@orbita.lv 

Format:  the work should be recorded on Betacam, VHS, super VHS videocassettes,  digital  cassettes or CD-ROMs.

Dedline:                                 Postal stamp July 31, 2001.

Synopsis:
Upon the decision made by the jury your work will be included in the program of 
the festival and shown during three performances of the festival in Riga. The 
work also could be selected for being recorded on the videocassette "Word in 
Motion"  (300 copies). Authors, whose works will be included in the video 
collection will be sent a copy till the end of 2001. The works submitted to the 
Festivals will not be returned.

Poetic Video Festival "Word in Motion"
QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PARTICIPANTS
Riga, 2001
____________________________________________________________Please note, that the main demand for the work submitted is: in your film a poetic text should be used as an imaginary or narrative component of the film! 
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Title of the film:

 Poetic text, lying on the basis of the film (title, author):

 Director:

 Script writer:

 Country:

 Format:

 Film length:

 Year of creation:

Additional information of the film and comments (producer, studio, participants, music, where the film was shown, participation in festivals, etc.):

 Additional information about the director: