[artinfo] call for entries :: Optronica festival :: London

[OPTRONICA]

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OPTRONICA - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS -  Deadline: December 1st
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OPTRONICA
visual music on the big screen
March 2007, London
at the BFI Southbank (NFT) & BFI IMAX
<>www.optronica.org

Playstation teams up with the BFI and leading audiovisual 
artists/producers Addictive TV with new-media curators Cinefeel to 
present Optronica, a hybrid of music festival and film festival 
taking place over 5 days in March 2007. Optronica explores the fusion 
of music and visuals, and features live audiovisual performances, 
screenings, talks, workshops and related special events.  The 
festival will be held at the BFI IMAX and the newly renovated 
National Film Theatre, which will re-open as BFI Southbank on 1 
February.  

:: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ::
visual music animations / music videos / video installations

For our cinema screenings, we're looking for innovative and 
unconventional music videos, ambient and experimental work, 
animations, audio/video remixes and video cut-ups that express or 
explore the close relation of music and image.  We're open to all 
styles of music and all styles of images, be they created on 
celluloid or in the digital domain.

We are also looking for video installations that utilise this close 
relation of music and image; these can be interactive and preferably 
for a single screen exhibit. These installations will be hosted in 
one of the new BFI Southbank spaces over the five days of the event 
as part of the Optronica Lounge.

DEADLINE: Friday 1st December. 

Please download a submission form and details from here  <>www.optronica.org

The cinema programmes are curated by Cinefeel who, for over a 
decade, has been promoting new media culture and music videos as an 
artform in their own right.  Cinefeel has programmed for major 
international festivals and organised countless music/video events. 
More info: <>www.cinefeel.org