OK Video Festival Jakarta | open call

OK. Video - Jakarta International Video Festival is a biannual video festival held since 2003 by ruangrupa, an artists' initiative in Jakarta, Indonesia. Open call for non-narrative and experimental video works on metaphorical interpretations of flesh theme.

OK. Video FLESH - 5th Jakarta International Video Festival 2011
Exhibition / Competition / Discussion / Public Program
6 - 17 October 2011 / National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta

CALL FOR ENTRIES

OK. Video Festival 2011 conceives flesh as a metaphor of biological entity of the human body that transforms into digital entity (images, sounds, texts) through the advancement of audiovisual technology. It also represents video that progressively shows its organic characters: grow in virtual sphere across the dimensional and temporal boundaries, metamorphoses into various medium and consistently reproduces itself by the reason of virality. This phenomena is continuously celebrated by the contemporary society within the progression of information and communication technology.

The festival invites public to discuss various questions: how far this kind of new flesh interacts with social, political and cultural aspects? Are we really celebrating democracy or is it just another virtual euphoria? How does the intersection between private and public domain continuously expand and shift? How do social and power structure cope with these changes? Thus, what are the consequences in relation with the discourses of history, tradition, religion, urban and rural culture, popular culture, mass media, sexuality, identity and violence? OK. Video placed these phenomena as a possibility to be celebrated, read, and interpreted critically.

OK. Video Festival focuses on non-narrative video works and opens for reconstructions, recording manipulations and an array of experiments of the audiovisual language. We accept video works with various approaches. Three best video works will be rewarded and announced at the opening ceremony of OK. Video FLESH - 5th Jakarta International Video Festival 2011.

Video work(s) accepted in a format: DVD (hardcopy) & softcopy (video Link(s) for download) / Duration 3 - 15 minutes / Production 2009 - 2011 / Deadline 31st August 2011 / Free registration fee

See website for application form.

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This opportunity came via Universes in Universe Nafas art magazine, a project of ifa.de (Thanks!)
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