Listen & Be Heard Network Arts News

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid

BP 6501
75064 Paris cedex 02 - France
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 18 00 20
Contact: 
info@art-action.org
www.art-action.org
Application deadline: Sept. 5, 2008
Event in Paris: Nov. 28 - Dec. 6, 2008

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ will take place at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations in Paris in November 2008. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2009 and in Berlin in June 2009.

Those three events will feature an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers recognized on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers.

ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PROPOSALS, without any restrictions for length or genre. All submissions are free, regardless of geographical origin. 

 
FILM AND VIDEO - any film and video format

* Video / Experimental video

* Fiction - short, medium and feature length

* Documentary, experimental documentary 

* Experimental Film

* Animation

MULTIMEDIA

* Video installation, multimedia installation * Net art * Multimedia performance, multimedia concert

Video and film submissions must be received on DVD. ALL submissions must be sent by postal mail, enclosed with a completed ONLINE ENTRY FORM, UNTIL SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 (postmark deadline). Entry form and information regarding the ‘Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid’ are posted on our website: 

www.art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ offers more than a simple presentation of the works. It introduces an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify to their reflections and their experiences, but also to artistic and cultural contexts that are often undergoing deep changes. 

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ reflects specificities and convergences of artistic practices between new 
cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and makes possible a necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged. 

The event aims at presenting works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals. 

It seeks to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a compelling program opened to everyone. 

PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID

In 2007, the ‘Rencontres Internationales’, which initially took place in Paris and Berlin, opened up to a third city: Madrid. This event now constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and various audiences.

In 2007-2008 the venues in the three cities were in particular the Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Reina Sofia national museum, the auditorium of the Ministerio de Cultura, the Art Centre El Águila de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Instituto Cervantes and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid. It is a non-commercial event without competition, supported by French, German, Spanish and international institutions.

www.art-action.org