Interference Festival - Freedom of Form 2018

Interference Festival - Freedom of Form 2018 now is over!

As part of the Interference Festival 2018, the Interference Foundation is hosting an open visual communication and video contest titled Freedom of Form aimed to recognise outstanding short visual productions, both commercial and non-commercial.

About Competition

Interference Foundation, the main organizer of the Interference Festival of Visual Communication Forms in Gdańsk is pleased to announce video contest titled Freedom of Form for 2018, inviting entries of visual works.

The main aim of this video contest is to select the best, the most aesthetically and creatively outstanding short visual works. Another aim is to collect works representing a broad spectrum of visual projects for presentation at the festival. The contest also aims to facilitate the presentation and promotion of young artists’ work.

There are two main categories:

• Music Video [max 10 minutes] - an authorial film form accompanying a music piece and relating to its content, a creative and original dialogue between two fields of art (music and the visual form)
• Experimental Short Visual Form [max 8 minutes] - film / video art / animation / found footage on any theme, produced in any style, exhibiting characteristics of innovativeness and artistic experiment

Every entity / person is allowed to enter two works maximum, with the proviso that every work is submitted to a different category. It is not possible to enter the same work in more than one category.

Submission requirements:

Category Music Video:
a) Duration: maximum 10 minutes
b) Compliance with the definition: an authorial film form accompanying a music piece and relating to its content, a creative and original dialogue between two fields of art (music and the visual form).
c) Substantive criteria: professional filmmaking level, creativity of approach to this type of visual form, authorial character of artistic expression, exceptional visual value based on high quality photography, montage, composition.

Category Experimental Short Visual Form [film / video art / animation]:
a) Duration: maximum 8 minutes
b) Compliance with the definition: film / video art / animation / found footage on any theme, produced in any style, exhibiting characteristics of innovativeness and artistic experiment.
c) Substantive criteria: professional filmmaking level, authorial character of artistic expression, creativity of approach to this type of visual form, experimental character on the level of technique or/and content, innovative production or post-production technologies.

Only entry works made in 2016-2018 will be considered.

The 2018 Interference Festival is scheduled for 13th December 2018. The official announcement of the winners will take place during the Festival.

There is no entry fees to participate!

Eligibility

Interference Festival - Freedom of Form 2018 is addressed to individual authors as well as companies, legal persons, organizations, institutions, and artist collectives who are of age [i.e. 18+].