B-Side - Call for submissions
B-Side (the seaside) a multi-media arts festival, animating and humanising
public spaces
Weymouth and Portland 19th – 28th September 2008
Call for Submissions
Artists from all disciplines, resident in or with a strong connection to the south
west, are invited to engage as follows:
4 new artists’ moving image commissions
Who: Practitioners in Dorset and the South West (2 bursaries
prioritized for 18-30 yrs)
Duration: 1-3 mins
Residency: 7-14 September 2008
Delivery: September 18 2008
Fee: £500, including S/C accommodation
4 vignettes will be produced and edited in 5 days. A unique opportunity to
produce small-scale (1-3 minutes) works, this is a professional
development scheme for practitioners wishing to work with the moving
image format. PVA MediaLab will facilitate the production of 4 small-scale
(1-3 minutes) moving image works exploring the following themes:
Public places, hidden spaces – an examination of ownership, freedom of
action, rules, rights of way and what is permissible within the space that
the work takes place in.
Welcoming the World – how the South West engages with non – nationals
and tourists and how this could change for 2012.
Open Up / Turning Out Your Pockets – revealing and exposing what we
have in terms of private obsessions, both personally and geographically.
Migration / Coastal Voices / Sense of Place.
We are looking for exciting narratives, visual flare, new voices and
extraordinary characters, which might utilize mobile phone, HDV,
animation or 8/16mm to tell a story effectively. The selected artists will
work together in residence at PVA MediaLab (Bridport) for 5-7 days
between 7-14 September 2008.
The residency will include:
A one-day group script development session;
A one-day group technical session on shooting to screening;
3-4 studio days for shooting, editing and post-production.
Workshop sessions, studio space, technical support, equipment and selfcatering
accommodation will all be provided. There is an artist’s fee of
£500.
B-Side also have further opportunities. For full details, please download their pdf document here B-Side-Artists_Opps