Published by FVPSociety

Apr 15, 2020

MISSION STATEMENT: The Film and Video Poetry Society (FVPS) mission is to encourage film and video poets to further their ongoing explorations by providing a platform for these artists to activate, collaborate,...

CALL FOR ENTRY!! The 2020 Film and Video Poetry Symposium

Submissions Are Being Accepted For The 3rd Annual Film and Video Poetry Symposium!

Deadline: Monday August 3, 2020

Poets, Experimental Filmmakers, Video Artists, Media and Performance Artists are called to submit creative works to The 3rd Annual Film and Video Poetry Symposium.

The symposium celebrates and will screen a large scope of film and video projects developed through the medium of poetry. This event will also host a series of panels, guest speakers, workshops, and public dialogues throughout the course of the symposium. Programmers also curate a 30-day gallery exhibition.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium is looking for submissions of poetry films, filmpoems, digital-poetry, poetry video, Cin(E)-Poetry, spoken word films, videopoema, visual poetry, choreopoems, poetrinca, media poetry, and all films and video that are driven poetry.

Live performances, virtual reality projects, video mapping, installation proposals, and grand scale video art presentations that hybrid or contain strong aspects of poetry are encouraged.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium also calls for experimental film and video work that explores language and/or literature whether it be oral, written, visual, or symbolic. This includes non-narrative work, found footage, genre deconstruction, experimental fiction, and the avant-garde.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium also calls for work completed within the genre of essay film, video or film essay (or cinematic essay).

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium will consider documentaries that focus on poets, poems, poetry, poetic technique, literary movements, and historical events within these realms.

FVPS strongly considers work that examines and/or challenges traditional visual communication methods while continuing to function as a tool for exploring narrative, language, and expression.

There are no restrictions regarding total running time of films or videos submitted. There are no restrictions regarding when the film or video work was produced or if the material has premiered regionally or internationally. There are no restrictions on subject matter, theme, topic, or on language of origin.

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