Download Entry Form: www.filmladen.de/dokfest
Deadline: August 1, 2005
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ANNOUNCEMENT
This year, the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival will take
place
from November 8th to 13th, 2005. The festival presents current
documentary
films and videos, the media art exhibition MONITORING, as well as the
interfiction symposium. We invite all filmmakers, media people, and
artists
to submit their latest works and projects for the individual sections
of
the Festival program. Closing date for entries is August 1st, 2005.
DocumentaryFilmVideoArt
One of the festival?s main emphasis lies on current films and videos
exploring their subject matters with documentary means. The festival is
also interested in experimental and artistic video works.
MONITORING
The exhibition MONITORING deals with the current room related
positioning
of media art. During the festival, it displays approximately 15 media
installations and sculptures, which will be selected among the
entries. The
exhibition will be held in the Suedfluegel and other locations of the
Kassel
KulturBahnhof. The exhibition is a cooperative effort of the festival,
the
"Kasseler Kunstverein" and the documenta Archive of the City of Kassel.
AWARDS
At the festival, three awards will be presented, each endowed with EURO
2,500. The "Golden Key", sponsored by the City of Kassel, is presented
to
the best documentary by a young director. The newspaper HNA recognises
an
outstanding production from the region of Northern Hesse with its
"Golden
Hercules" award. The "Golden Cube" is presented to the best
installation of
the exhibition MONITORING. In addition, there is also an award for the
innovative use of digital production and post-production tools.
Artists may
apply for the project grant of the Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. ?
Center for
Art and Media Sachsen-Anhalt ? providing technical support worth up to
EURO
5,000.
interfiction
This year?s interfiction symposium (including lectures, presentations
and a
workshop) is dedicated to ?Learning from?? ?. Artists, video- and
filmmakers, researchers, writers and others interested in
transdisciplinary
exchange on the related issue are invited to join the conference and to
discuss their ideas and projects dealing with ideas, images, figures
and
strategies of translation, transmission, transfer and/or transgression.
Call for contributions and further information: www.interfiction.org
22nd Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival
November 8 - 13, 2005
http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest
dokfest@filmladen.de
Organisation+Video:
Wieland Hoehne / Gerhard Wissner
phone: ++49.561.70764 12
fax: ++49.561.70764 41
mail:
c/o Filmladen Kassel e.V.
Goethestrasse 31
34119 Kassel
German
Received on Mon Apr 25 19:25:46 2005