MONITOR 7: New South Asian short film and video

 

Deadline: 10 November 2010

 

SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) invites submissions for its seventh annual experimental short film and video screening program, Monitor 7.

Monitor 7 is dedicated to the presentation of experimental short films and videos by/and/or about South Asians from Canada and around the world. We invite independent and innovative short films and videos that explore the aesthetic and form of the moving image and its relation to narrative. Monitor 7 encourages new, experimental and risk-taking work that challenges the viewer’s active engagement.

Selected works will be screened at the sixth annual short film and video program, Monitor 7 in March 2011 (TBC) in Toronto, Canada.

Monitor 7 will be curated by video artist, writer, curator and currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University, Ayesha Hameed in collaboration with a MONITOR Jury (TBC). Works must be under 20 minutes and produced after 2008. Submissions from first time directors are welcome. Artists’ fees will be paid.

 

Submissions should be sent on DVD (PAL, NTSC) enclosed with the following:

• Name artist or director
• Full contact information (address, phone, fax, email)
• Title of work
• Date of production
• Brief synopsis of the work
• Brief biography of the artist
• High-resolution production stills

Send all materials to:
SAVAC – MONITOR 7
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 450
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
CANADA

 

Inquiries can be sent to info[at]savac.net

 

All deliveries from international participants must be marked: "NO COMMERCIAL VALUE." Please do not claim any monetary value over $50 on your package for insurance or otherwise or you will be charged customs, duties and taxes. All submissions must be sent prepaid. SAVAC will not accept collect or C.O.D. shipments and will not accept shipments incurring expenses for duties, taxes or customs brokerage.

Please note that only selected artists will be contacted. Submissions will only be returned if the package includes a self-addressed stamped envelope (in Canadian postage) or send a cheque payable to SAVAC for the return postage amount.

For more information, please contact: Srimoyee Mitra