FIBER Festival 2020 hosts an online film programme Instability Stream on Friday, September 25, and Saturday, September 26. We are now calling upon video artists, experimental and abstract filmmakers, media artists, musicians/audiovisual performers to submit their work. These can be short experimental films (no traditional documentaries), video art, video clips, performance registrations or registrations of works that highlight the changing relationships between technology, ecology and society in daring new ways.
We are looking for works that deal with interactions between human and non-human perspectives, new sensorial capabilities towards environmental topics, climate change, planetary infrastructure, worldbuilding, and speculative futures. We offer a fee of €50 when your work is selected.
Requirements
- Work must not be older than 3 years.
- No traditional documentary work.
- You may submit a maximum of two works.
- Submit your work before August 24, 2020
Festival Theme
With the festival theme of Instability we explore new ways of adapting to an age of planetary and societal changes. What opportunities are open to artistic making and thinking to contribute to this transformation? Our living environment is often presented to us as stable and unquestionable. Landscapes, borders and technological infrastructures are considered static entities. Yet current crises now force us to transform the way we relate to our ecological surroundings. Extreme weather, droughts, wildfires and viruses are forces of nature that tear apart our modern way of living with far-reaching consequences. The festival aims to seek artistic narratives, skills and sensibilities to prepare us for an alternative life in a period of uncertainty and radical instability.