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AFX 2007 NOW ACCEPTING NEW SUBMISSIONS!!!
PLEASE SEND YOUR SUBMISSION TO:
AMSTERDAM FILM EXPERIENCE
ATTN. MONIQUE VAN DIJK
POSTBUS 3244
1001 AA AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS
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AMSTERDAM FILM EXPERIENCE (AFX)
November 2nd, 3rd & 4th 2007 Ketelhuis - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
What is Amsterdam Film eXperience?
The Amsterdam Film eXperience (AFX) is an annual international short film festival that will take place in Amsterdam on Friday November 2nd, Saturday November 3rd & Sunday November 4th 2007.
The AFX aims to promote Amsterdam as a hub for up-and-coming local as well as international film makers, an annual nexus so-to-speak for artists and audience alike. In the last couple of years the Netherlands have become a hot-bed for innovative ideas in the area of video and media art. Cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Utrecht are bustling with a new breed of talent eager to explore cutting-edge techniques in film and the audio-visual arts. At the same time these artistic productions are the result of international collaborations and a vivid exchange of concepts and new technologies worldwide has been going on for years.
"The notion of conventional celluloid cinema has perhaps one or two generations to run. But then I'm sure, quite happily, we'll see the end of it I'm quite convinced [...] that all the new languages will certainly be soon giving us, I won't say cinema because I think we have to find a new name for it, but cinematic experiences, which is going to make Star Wars look like an early sixteenth century lantern-slide lecture.
I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy. "
- Peter Greenaway
New media, multi-media, video art, experimental film, ... the boundaries between film, video, and other audio-visual mediums have become more and more blurred in the past few years. New labels have been applied in order to try and classify what is essentially multi-disciplinary. What many of these ingenious outputs have in common is film as their underlying language, their root or their point of convergence. What is more, many artists of varying backgrounds (visual, theater/performance, and music alike) have made use of film in order to reach a wider audience. Film is, after all, a mass medium. And this is why AISFF intends to focus on cinematic experiences (to quote Peter Greenaway), because we believe that cutting-edge cinematic experience is the common ground for a new media artist and advertising creative alike. We want to showcase short films by artists who often do not get the chance to present their work to a broader audience and create a venue that includes filmmakers, audio-visual artists, VJs, webdesigners, gamers, television producers, advertising creatives, musicians, as well as performance artists. And everyone else who seeks to be stimulated and agitated by film.
What and how do I submit?
Send an email to [email protected] to request an application form. Fill it in and send it, together with your film, to:
AMSTERDAM FILM EXPERIENCE
ATTN. STEVE ARMOR
POSTBUS 3244
1001 AA AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS
DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2007
Contact: [email protected]
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