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call: Kunstfilmtag 2010 Düsseldorf

Call for entries
Deadline: 3 September 2010

Kunstfilmtag 2010
UN..SHARPNESS OF THE DOCUMENTARY
Auditorium of the Artists Association Malkasten I Düsseldorf
November 6th, 2010

Kunstfilmtag 2010
UN..SHARPNESS OF THE DOCUMENTARY
Kunstfilmtag 2010 is looking for videos and films
which approach their subjects using documentary methods,
where the relationship to the documentary can be perceived
freely and artistically..

This year 2010 we are looking for videos and films which approach their subjects using documentary methods, where the relationship to the documentary can be perceived very freely and artistically.
Various aspects such as conditions and forms of representation of audiovisual documentary material as well as the question of its origin and its use lead to a wide spectrum of artistic forms.
Concerning not only the issue of proximity or distance - in relation to reality -,this question also regards art-concepts including documentary audiovisual material or: a targeted relation to reality which is accomplished by artificial, also non-documentary forms.
Fiction, structures, animation, text, speech, peotry and musical elements are used in the audiovisual art field of the documentary…

The documentary purely refers to its possibilities, is an option to the matter of testimony, where every doubt whether the real, the truth, the factual can truly be portrayed, can be integrated into the discussion.

Do documentary pictures, cropped and mounted, coupled with sounds and words, linguistic interpretations and rhythms create new fictions, are they sketches of a reality? Are they reflections or appeals, suggestions, instructions on a view of the world? How do these pictures stand in the context of their distribution or presen- tation and in the context of their creation? How does the documentary manifest itself in art?

We are interested in commentaries on the state of society, in scenarios of reality, but also in details of day-to-day life, in encountered situations and objects, reflections on the genre itself or an analysis of the media forms of expression of the information society.

“..The constant uncertainty over whether documental truth is possible…, the constant doubts about whether what we see even corresponds with reality do not portray a shortcoming which has to be denied, but rather, on the contrary, the one key feature of the forms of documentary..”

“..Life cannot be put into picture “as it is”. At that moment in which it becomes a picture, it has relinquished itself and become the other of itself. It is its own doppelganger, simultaneously real and strangely artificial, an original and a replica, real and surreal. The documentary life as it is can be everything, except itself….” *)

We look forward to the next art film day, to a diverse analysis of the documentary forms in video art und artistic film.

http://www.kunstfilmtag.de/index.php?id=52

Deadline for entries: September, 3th, 2010
Length: max. 12 minutes,
Year of production: no limit

contact:
susanne_fasbender@kunstfilmtag.de
www.kunstfilmtag.de