Call for Entries Info
The Observatory Archives are intentional in nature
and organized around specific themes, bringing together material that
supports a critique of contemporary culture through different approaches
such as video art, independent documentary and mass media archeology.
Although the archives include many different kinds of works, they all
share a commitment to free expression, and reflect upon our individual
and collective fears and pleasures. Together, they create a multifaceted
vision, thousands of small eyes probing and exploring our world and
proclaiming other possible worlds. A discourse that values
heterogeneity, plurality, contradiction and subjectivity; an antidote to
the cloning and repetition of corporate mass media. In the 16 years of
OVNI's existence, the Observatory Archives have grown to include more
than 2000 projects.
The call for works is open to all themes within the areas of independent
documentary, video art and media archaeology. The Observatory Archives
thematic areas include:
- Identity and Mass Media.
- Inner Experience and other mystic visions.
- Death - Culture and experience. Rituals.
- Trance rituals - Religion - edited videos, camera tapes or found
footage documenting trance rituals (dikr, haddras, Santeria, voodoo ,
media preachers...).
- Globalization and Resistance: Argentina, Palestine, South Africa,
Iraq, Chechnya, the Antiglobalization movement, and the Landless
People's movement.
-Heterodoxies and Autonomous Zones, different ways of thinking, living,
communities....other worlds far from the "there is no alternative"
single ideology.
-The Cathode Ray - Media Guerrilla, media critique, intercepted
information and counter information, media attack, media
deconstruction...
-Lost in Babylon: the adventures and misadventures of survivors of the Empire.
-Colonial Tourism - the phenomenon of tourism (image plundering,
hijacked territories, tele-transportation, gift of ubiquity, theme
parks....)
-Borders - Migration, cross-cultures, nomadism and globalization. The
militarisation of borders. -Illegal in paradise. Europe-Maghreb,
USA-Latin America.
-Work and ideology - Work and capital, politics and reality, imagery of progress, the taboo of representing workplaces.
-Babylon Archives - media archeology:educational and business
documentaries, , marketing, tourism promotional videos, castings...
-Islam - View of the Other - other images, other information about a
culture that has been almost exclusively represented through western
eyes.
-Indigenous Rhizomes: indigenous culture, communities, specificities,
conflicts. Alien representations through colonial anthropology,
ethnography ...
-Cities - Portraits of cities - scenes from daily life, home, the workplace, memories...
-Machine Land - Deconstruction of technology, machine conspiracy,
digital euphoria, corporate vandalism: genetics, pharmaceutic and
transgenic industry
-Dream Archives - Stories of dreams, the imaginary of an age, desires, conflicts, madness, pleasures...etc.
-Michel Foucault, Guy Debord, Eduard Said, Hakim Bey, George Bataille,
William Burroughs, Gilles Deleuze - Works directly or indirectly related
to the work of these authors.
OVNI regularly adds projects to the archive under the following conditions:
_Pay 200/300 eu. to include a copy of the project in the Archives, and
make it available for archival consulting. The fee includes two public presentations.
_Pay 100eu per screening for any subsequent screening in the context of a OVNI program.
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Video Data Formats:
DVD (only for preview)
BETACAM SP
Mini DV / DVCAM /
HDV / HD
Hard drive / USB pendrive
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Notifications will not be sent to acknowledge works have been received.
Previews material will not be returned.
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Please submit the form.
Print and send the entry form together with: video material, images and texts for press purposes, and a transcription for Spanish translation if available.
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Send to:
Arxius OVNI
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
Montalegre, 5
08001 Barcelona
Spain
Ph. (34) 93 306 41 00
convocatoria at desorg.org