<nettime-ann> Call for Proposals Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival <dokfest@filmladen.de>]

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 24th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival 2007
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 Deadline: August 1, 2007
 Entry form is attached
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ANNOUNCEMENT
The 24th edition of the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is 
going to take place from November 13 to 18, 2007. On six days the 
festival presents about 220 international documentary films as well as 
experimental and artistic works. Moreover, the media art exhibition 
MONITORING, the DokfestLounge with audiovisual performances and the 
interfiction symposium do top off the festival program. Having this 
profile the Kasseler Dokfest annually attracts both a regional audience 
as well as professionals of the film and media industry from Germany, 
Europe and the rest of the world.
 We invite all artists, filmmakers, distributors, gallery owners, 
universities or institutions to submit latest works and projects to the 
different sections of the festival program. Deadline for entries is 
August 1, 2007.
  
DOCUMENTARYFILMVIDEOART
The documentary film traditionally makes up the heart of the festival. 
Thus, the festival puts its main emphasis on films and videos exploring 
their subject by documentary means. The festival is also interested in 
experimental and artistic works expressing an individual approach. 
There is no restriction in terms of the running time of submitted
 works.
  
MONITORING
The exhibition MONITORING is devoted to contemporary space-oriented 
media art. 15 media installations and sculptures are selected among the 
entries and displayed at Kassel KulturBahnhof during the festival. The 
exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Kasseler Kunstverein 
and the documenta Archive of the City of Kassel.
  
AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE
The lounge of the festival presents a program of audiovisual 
performances and VJart. This section is calling for live visuals, 
audiovisual performance concepts, Live Cinema, sound performances and 
any kind of experiments, produced in analog or digital media.
  
INTERFICTION
This year’s interfiction symposium (with lectures, presentations and 
workshop-sessions) will focus on “PATCH_WORK: art, culture and 
knowledge production between commons and DRM”. Artists, video- and 
filmmakers, researchers, curators, writers, activists and others 
interested in transdisciplinary exchange on the related issues are 
invited to join the conference and to discuss their ideas and projects. 
Call for contributions and further information: www.interfiction.org
 
AWARDS
A selection of the presented films and art works of the festival 
program will be nominated for one of the four awards. The festival 
seeks to support the best documentary submitted by a young director. 
Therefore, the City of Kassel endows € 5,000 for the “Golden Key” 
award. The newspaper HNA awards an outstanding production from the 
region of Northern Hesse with its “Golden Hercules”, worth € 2,500. 
This year, Micromata Objects GmbH, a Kassel located Software Company, 
supports the “Golden Cube” with € 2,500 in prize money, which is 
awarded to the best installation of the exhibition MONITORING. 
Moreover, the festival and the Werkleitz Gesellschaft present the 
project grant “A38”. The three-month artist-in-residence grant, worth € 
4,000 and additionally € 4,000 for allowance in kind, is funded by the 
Austauschfonds Ost-West of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
  
SPLICE IN
The 24th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival presents the special 
program “/splice in/” curated by Elfe Brandenburger and Sandra Schäfer. 
Proceeding from the specific situation of film production in 
Afghanistan, “/splice in/” enquires into the representation of gender 
relations in current film productions, particularly the first films 
made by women, but also in historical films from the archive Afghan 
Film and brings them together with filmic and political methods from 
Iran, India, Pakistan and Europe. More information can be found at: 
www.mazefilm.de

We are looking forward to your entries and to an inspiring 24th edition 
of the Dokfest in Kassel!

Best regards,

the Dokfest-team

24th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival
November 13 - 18, 2007

Kati Michalk / Gerhard Wissner
phone:	+49.561.707 64 21
fax:	+49.561.707 64 41

http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest
dokfest@filmladen.de

mail:
c/o Filmladen Kassel e.V.
Goethestrasse 31
34119 Kassel
Germany
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