call: 2024 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival
Deadline: 8 March 2024
call for entries
2024 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival
2. Deadline:
March 8, 2024
3. Dates & location of event context:
April 19 & 20, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
4. Call – outlining text
The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival invites submissions to its 2024 edition which takes place April 19 & 20, 2024. We’re looking for unique, boundary-pushing works in video, animation, and film.
SUBMISSION CATEGORIES:
•     Experimental
•     Short Narrative
•     Documentary
•     Animation
•     Student Work
•     AI and Art (works made with or about artificial intelligence)
•     Performance, Video Installation, Expanded Media
Theme: AI and Art
In addition to the standard categories listed above, we invite time-based works that explore or that are made with Artificial Intelligence. As AI finds its way more and more into our lives, into art, and into the public discourse, we would like to use this opportunity to question and imagine its impact in all of these contexts. Works submitted in this category are not bound by genre or medium (experimental, performative, narrative, documentary… etc.) as long as they involve the use of AI to some degree in their production. Submissions can also include works that critically address issues related to AI in an investigative, critical, or expressive way. The submitter should indicate the work’s connection to these topics in the project synopsis or description.
Performance and Media Exhibition:
We also invite submissions to a one-day media and performance exhibition to take place in the Falbo Theater of the Canady Creative Arts Center that interrogate the relationship between the body and technology, intimacy and telepresence. Submissions may include theatre, dance, sound, or other performance works that incorporate audiovisual media. These might include remote, online or otherwise telematic performances. They might include augmented or virtual reality performances. They might include in-person performances involving media. Works may utilize tools like motion sensors, projection, live or fixed media in the engagement with the festival’s theme. Please submit a brief document with your submission describing concept and technical descriptions/requirements. Direct inquiries to wvmsff@gmail.com
REQUIREMENTS/AGREEMENTS:
Maximum running time of 15 minutes. Works must have been completed after January 1, 2022. 10$ per entry. Students: Free – with valid, current ID. Maximum of 2 entries per person. Separate entry form and fee required for each entry. Applicants agree to allow festival organizers use of accepted works for all promotional materials and events. Deadline for entry: March 8, 2024. Artists whose works are accepted will be notified on or before March 18, 2024.
General Entry fee: $10
Students: FREE (with valid, current ID)
Contact: wvmsff@gmaill.com
URL: https://www.wvmsff.com
Submissions: https://www.filmfreeway.com/TheWestVirginiaMountaineerShortFilmFestival
