Ars Independent Festival

We are calling for entries to Black Horse Competition and Black Horse of Animation Competition at the 6th edition of Ars Independent Festival . Black Horse Competition is dedicated to feature-length debuts and second films. The directors of films qualified for the competition will compete for the Black Horse statuette and cash prize of 2.500 euro. School animations, animated debuts and second films will compete for the Black Horse of Animation statuette and cash prize of 500 euro.

Machinima – a portmanteau of the words „machine” and „cinema” – are movies made with the help of video games. Between film, animation, demoscene and video games an audio-visual movement was born; movement hard to classify in the current paradigm. The Ars Independent Festival turns its attention to the media borderland, exploring novel phenomena, characteristic to the post-modern, multimedia creativity. Still niche and unknown, the art of machinima is one of the most interesting products of the meeting of new media. The video game section Do you play? invites all machinimators to take part in the non-competitive Machinima Review, which will take place during the 6th Ars Independent Festival.

We accept entries until June 30th 2016