Cinema Politica: Call for Submissions: 2012-2013
WANTED: INDEPENDENT CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
Cinema Politica Call for Submissions (2012-2013 Program)
Cinema Politica is currently seeking submissions of independent documentary works for our Fall deadline of August 1, 2012.
Cinema Politica is a non-competitive continuous documentary screening series with locations throughout Canada and abroad. We are a non-profit media arts organization committed to connecting audiences on campuses and communities to independent political and social issue non-fiction cinema. Most of our screening activity occurs during the academic year with two annual submission deadlines: August 1, 2012 (for the Fall 2012 Program) and December 1, 2012 (for the Winter 2013 Program).
Two special sidebar programs: THE COMMONS and SOUTH ASIAN DOCS
For our next programming cycle we are planning two sidebar programs: THE COMMONS will showcase documentary film and video that explore issues around the environment, eco-activism, land, public space, austerity and stewardship while SANGHARSH DOX! will feature documentary film and video by South Asian artists (by origin or self-identification) expressing and interrogating moments, movements and cultures of Sangharsh, or resistance, in South Asian countries or in associated diasporic communities.
Please mail DVD submissions to the following address:
Cinema Politica Submissions
PO Box 55097 (Mackay)
Montreal, QC
H3G 2W5
If you would like to send us a link to the website for the film, the trailer, or to stream a preview of the film, please send that information to our Programming Coordinator, Davi Almeida de Souza at programming@cinemapolitica.org with “SUBMISSION” in the subject heading. While online previews are fine, we do also like to preview high-quality versions of films we’re interested in in our screening room, on DVD.
There is no cost to submit your work to Cinema Politica and we are not responsible for lost or stolen items, and due to the work load of our small team, we cannot return submitted works. Cinema Politica pays Public Performance Licensing fees (non-commercial, community and educational) for works screened, either directly to the artist or to the distributor representing the artist’s work.
Cinema Politica specializes in showcasing political non-fiction film and video of all lengths that tackle important social, political, cultural and ecological issues. We take our tagline “Screening Truth to Power” very seriously and program original works that look at under-represented stories of struggle, oppression, resistance and social transformation.
ABOUT US
Cinema Politica is the largest non-commercial campus and community based documentary screening network in the world. We have over 100 screening sites worldwide, all our screenings are by donation and we work to connect audiences to artists who are changing the world with their films.
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Guidelines can be found at http://www.cinemapolitica.org/submit-a-film.
“David MacDougall and Reflections on Relative Speed” by Alex Fattal published on Sensate!
Check out Sensate contributor Alex Fattal’s review of the 1974 short Under the Men’s Tree, by filmmaker and ethnographer David MacDougall. Fattal discusses the film in relation to MacDougall’s notion of “the quick,” a concept that MacDougall writes is ”a metaphor for the film itself – a product of this heightened consciousness” (1998:54). Fattal argues that by considering “the quick” alongside Under the Men’s Tree, the “intertwined relationship between maker and theorist” is revealed. His review examines this tension and its implications.
“Materials Recovery Facility” by Ernst Karel published on Sensate!
NEW audio piece published on Sensate!
Check out “Materials Recovery Facility” by Ernst Karel
U N B O U N D @MIT : speculations on the future of the book
This symposium explores the future potential of the book by engaging practitioners and performers of this versatile technology to ask some key questions: is the book an artifact on its deathbed or a mutable medium transitioning into future forms? What shape will books of the future take? Grounded in this technology’s history, we will reflect critically on possible futures, promises, and challenges of the book, showcasing practices by writers and artists, putting them in conversation with scholars and thinkers from across the disciplines who are framing discourse and questions about book-related technotexts. This symposium hopes to foster a lively discussion where audience members participate and invoke their multiple perspectives of the book.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Location: 6-120 (Building 6, room 120)
6:00 PM — Welcome remarks
Amaranth Borsuk and Gretchen Henderson
6:15-7:00 PM — Performance
In conjunction with the Purple Blurb reading series.
Participants: Christian Bök, with opening poems by MIT undergraduate writers Alvin Mwijuka and Aimee Harrison.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Morning Location: 14N-118 (Building 14, North Wing, Room 118)
10:00-11:30 AM — Open House at MIT Institute Archives, Special Collections, and Conservation Lab
Participants: Stephen Skuce, Pat Olson, and other MIT archivists and conservators.
Afternoon Location: Bartos Theater and Lower Atrium (Building E15, lower level, directions here)
12:45-1:00 PM — Welcome remarks
Amaranth Borsuk and Gretchen Henderson
1-2:30 PM — Unbinding the Book
Participants: Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), James Reid-Cunningham (Boston Athenaeum), Wyn Kelley (MIT Literature), Mary Fuller (MIT Literature)
Moderator: Gretchen Henderson (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies)
2:30-3:00 PM — Coffee / Light Snacks / Exhibition
3-4:30 PM — Reshaping the Book
Participants: Christian Bök (University of Calgary), Bob Stein (ifBook, New York), Gita Manaktala (MIT Press)
Moderator: Amaranth Borsuk (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies)
4:30-5:00 PM — Coffee / Light Snacks / Exhibition
5:00-6:00 PM — Electronic Literature and Future Books
In conjunction with The MIT Communications Forum
Participants: N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University), Rita Raley (University of California Santa Barbara), Nick Montfort (Comparative Media Studies and Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, MIT)
Moderator: David Thorburn (MIT Literature and Comparative Media Studies)
6:00-7:00 PM — Q&A including all participants
7:00-8:30 PM — Reception / Exhibition / Book Fair
Participant books for sale along with related titles.
In addition to these events, an accompanying exhibit of artists’ books from MIT’s collection will be on display in MIT’s Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning (Building 7-238). For more information, please see the “Exhibitions” page.
SENSATE seeks focus group participants
Sensate Journal cordially invites you to participate in a focus group to review and evaluate its content, format, and policies.
In an effort to evaluate and improve upon the journal’s design and presentation, we are conducting a focus group to assess the use and usefulness of our web platform as an alternative to traditional scholarly publication. You have been chosen to partake in our focus group because of your noteworthy scholarship, experience, and expertise. Our editorial and production teams value the critical insight your assessments might provide us. We would, therefore, ask you take a few moments and visit us at www.sensatejournal.com.
While you are exploring the features of our website, please consider navigating through a brief series of tasks that might improve your overall experience and allow for a more complete assessment of the journal. As Sensate pieces vary based on content and form, we recommend that you look through at least two pieces.
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Open www.sensatejournal.com in your browser. General information about Sensate and our FAQs can be found on our “About” page. Please note that Sensate pieces work best with
Chrome and Safari browsers, as our back end software runs on HTML5. You can download the latest version of Chrome here. Sensate publishes reviews and articles, and the pieces vary
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Send your comments as an attachment to sensatejournal@gmail.com in a separate PDF or word doc. Thank you!
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http://blog.aaanet.org/2012/04/16/seeking-focus-group-participants/
Antropología Visual
Audiovisual & Media Anthropology
Explore ethnographic films in Spanish at Antropología Visual
Etats généraux : Register your film until May 15th!
Register your film for the Viewing experiences programme:
All documentary films with copyright 2011-2012, produced or co-produced in a French-speaking European country (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg) can be submitted for the 2012 event, provided they were not submitted in 2011.
http://www.lussasdoc.org/selection_experiences_du_regard,262.html?locale=en_US
