Short Cut: Opportunity Listings in August 2018

John Smith, Celestial Navigation, 1980. Courtesy of the artist and LUX.

Each month LUX Scotland shares opportunities for artists, filmmakers, curators, and other arts professionals working in the moving image sector. If you have an opportunity to share please email scotland [at] lux.org.uk.

Submissions to Alternative Film/Video 2018, BelgradeAlternative Film/Video 2018 will take place from 12 – 16 December at Students’ City Cultural Center in Belgrade. They invite submissions of work that responds to the theme: ‘collective’.Deadline: 1 August

Submissions to London Short Film Festival 2019London Short Film Festival are looking for distinct voices in short filmmaking. A ‘promoter of uncompromising auteurs’, the festival hosts its 16^th edition in 2019, screening over 500 films across London venues.Deadline: 20 August (Late)

Aesthetica Art PrizeThe Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. It offers both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience, and further their engagement with the international art world.Deadline: 31 August 2018

Submissions to Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded MediaThe Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media invites submissions of short and experimental films, installations, network culture, AV performances and live-acts.Deadline: 1 September 2018Submissions to International Film Festival RotterdamIFFR invite submissions to their 2019 edition. The festival’s focus is on recent work by both emerging and established filmmakers from all backgrounds in their artistic endeavours.Deadline (short films completed before 1 July) 1 September; (short films completed after 1 July) 1 OctoberUnderneath the FloorboardsA visual arts and experimental film night at the Hackney Picture House, Underneath the Floorboards invites submissions of work that ‘creates an interesting language of its own’.Deadline: 5 September 2018Submissions to The Face of the EarthEspacio Pla, Buenos Aires, invites submissions of video work to be part of the installation Videomundo Virtual – a recreation of a sphere-shaped structure with six TV sets. Work should respond to the following topics: Integrated World Capitalism, The problem of image, Precarious lovers, or Seduction vs. Production.Deadline: 10 October 2018Submissions to Alchemy Film Festival 2019Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, invites submissions of work which is ‘visually experimental, quietly poetic, formally radical, psycho-geographical, politically activist, culturally subversive, psycho-spiritual, alchemically volatile, underground and bizarre’,.Deadline: 30 November 2018