Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin / Madrid :: Call for Entries – Deadline: August 25, 2008.

Rencontres Internationales will take place at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations in Paris in November 2008. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2009 and in Berlin in June 2009.

Those three events will propose an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers.

ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANISATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA CYCLES, without any restriction of length or genre. All submissions are free, without any limitation of geographic origin.

CINEMA AND VIDEO CYCLES (all film and video formats)
* Video / Experimental video / Video art
* Fiction – short, medium and feature length
* Documentary, experimental documentary
* Experimental Film
* Animation movie

MULTIMEDIA CYCLES
* Installation * Net art * Multimedia performance and concert

Video and film submissions are received on DVD. ALL submissions are sent by postal mail, enclosed with a filled-in ONLINE ENTRY FORM, UNTIL THE 25th of AUGUST, 2008. Entry forms and information regarding the ‘Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid’ are available on our website http://art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ offer more than a simple presentation of the works. They introduce an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world – artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations – to testify of the vivacity of creation and its distribution, but also of the artistic and cultural contexts that often are experiencing deep changes.

The event reflects specificities and crossings of art practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores media art practices and their critical purposes, and work out this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged.

The event aims at presenting those works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals. Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, is an event without competition supported by French, German, Spanish and international cultural institutions.