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July 2011
idill 2011
The International competition for short films of movement idill(.... too complicated, how about on-line dance short film competition et basta?) is back another year, so get your body moving... (Spin was 2009's winner, no need for a highly sophisitcated human choreography as you can see) idill – is a competition international in scope set up by Charleroi/Danses, the Choreographic Centre of the French Community of Belgium, La Gaîté Lyrique and Sadler’s Wells, the UK’s leading Dance House, in partnership with…
Find out more »Rencontres Internationales – Call for entries – Paris
After Paris, Madrid & Berlin is time for the city of lights to host once again that contemporary cinema mish mash called the "Rencontres Internationales" which since 1997 hasn't stopped discovering us some of the best new works in contemporary cinema and arts. The French city will bring that fine selection of works from the thousands of submissions they'll be receiving and for their November edition the call for entries is still open! ("Cirque One" by César Pesquera) Rencontres Internationales…
Find out more »August 2011
Collabor8te
New competition for the summer boys & girls. "Collabor8te"! The people from Dazed, Rankin Films & The Bureau are looking for the next best scriptwriter from the UK & Ireland... they're so convinced about the quality of the Island's scriptwriting that they're ready to produce 8 short films with budgets up to £10.000 each! Basically the trio escalofrio are looking for new young talent (blood) to coach and teach throughout the whole film production process, from script development to production…
Find out more »London International Animation Festival @ Various
The largest animation festival in the UK is back! Another year, another great excuse to discover worldwide animated class across multiple London venues (prices range from 4£ to £10, so no big excuses). The Invention of Happy Hour by LIAFanimation For this year the organization have prepared a great selection of screenings & events that for 10 days will invade the Barbican, the Horse Hospital and the Rio Cinema... An opening gala @ The Barbican which includes a good mix of…
Find out more »September 2011
Disposable Film Festival 2012
For me personally there used to be only one disposable film festival and that is Notodo's FF which has been running for a decade now (and will be open by the end of the month btw). But it seems there's another on-line festival across the pond who's got that name for themselves: Eric Slatkin and Carlton Evans' DFF. Now in its 5th edition America's DFF has gathered a few more sponsors (which translates into more $$$) and an increasing buzz…
Find out more »Hackney Film Festival
The good thing about London is that there's always something exciting going on. If it's not a cinema competition on racing boats across the city canals is hidden super secret evenings with Eastern Europe's best trapeze artists or high-quality electro squats. The bad thing is that most of these are 1 time only and hardly repeat themselves throughout the months or years. And here comes the second edition of a great initiative:the Hackney Film Festival! Conceived as a platform for local…
Find out more »Nordic Days 2011
Last year with the beginning of autumn a new festival started to take shape in the streets of Madrid. A viking invasion leaded by Jonathan Johansson, Kaspar, Murder and José González. But it wasn't all about viking music, viking rock & soft pop. There was some room for cinema, dark literature and a few talks too, but most of the festival gravitated around our beloved viking sounds. How about this year? Well yes, there will be a second edition of…
Find out more »December 2011
Post Digital Monsters @ Gaite Lyrique – Paris
There's still a loooong way to go before Pictoplasma 2012 takes Berlin for another animation rave, so in the meanwhile the organization & Parisian digital arts centre Gaîté Lyrique have teamed up to bring the festival to the French capital next month. From December 7 to 31 la Gaîté lyrique presents a comprehensive program with installations, exhibition, artist conferences, performances, screenings.... "Post Digital Monsters" is the main exhibition everything revolves around. A vast, central group show that presents international contemporary artists…
Find out more »January 2012
Optical sound and other tales
Our second favorite digital space in Paris is kicking off their cultural agenda for 2012 with a new exhibition and a couple of performances: starting Thursday 26th a dedicated "digital" night will take place at the southern Parisian center (strictly talking it's not Paris anymore but...). At 19h the Cube opens the agenda with a private viewing of Optical Sound and Other Tales exhibition, presenting work by Pierre Beloüin, as well as videos produced and distributed by his Optical Sound…
Find out more »February 2012
Planète Manga
Here's one of our quickies. It started last Saturday but it will be on-going for the next 3,5 months, a real luxury for Manga freak lovers! Parisian contemporary arts (and other things) center "Beaubourg" just opened an anime film cycle 1 week ago within their "13/16 studio" (you know... that "exclusive" part of the museum dedicated to adolescents). Not that many of the films they've chosen for the 4-month cycle are particularly adolescent-oriented but.... given the dimension and ambition of…
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