August 16, 2007
Water Films Sought by PFA and Cinema St. Louis
In these modern times, all type of calls-for-video-and-film are placed, with varying degrees of, let's say, "interest factor." A new call, though, has a variety of interesting twists, with the Pulitzer Foundation and Cinema St. Louis combining for a really neat project involving silent films that incorporate water. Let's allow CStL to explain the event:
-----------------------------------------------
Call for Entries: Water Works
Cinema St. Louis and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts invite St. Louis-area filmmakers to project their imaginations on the Pulitzer building by creating short silent films that employ water as a key element.
In conjunction with the upcoming exhibit "Water," which opens July 20, the Pulitzer will hold an event in September 2007 that features locally created, water-related short films. These "water works" will be digitally projected on several exterior surfaces at the Pulitzer Foundation.
Cinema St. Louis will then choose one of the films to screen as part of the AT&T St. Louis International Film Festival, held from Nov. 8-18, 2007. The film will be part of a silent-film program and receive live musical accompaniment.
"Water" Exhibit Info
This exhibition engages the prevalence of water in the Pulitzer building and addresses the range of responses that water has elicited from modern and contemporary artists. Works will be exhibited in relation to the building's prominent watercourt and the space itself, which was conceived by Tadao Ando as a fluid substance directed by walls. Specific juxtapositions within the exhibition will encourage the visitors to think about the artwork in different and unexpected ways. Artists include Alvar Aalto, Max Beckmann, Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Henri Matisse, Claes Oldenburg, Cy Twombly, and more.
Contest Details
St. Louis-area filmmakers interested in participating must create silent shorts that meet the following three criteria:
Incorporate water as an important aspect of the work.
Run a maximum of 5 minutes (no minimum running time).
Exclude ALL sound, including music, effects and dialogue.
Experimental, narrative, animated, and documentary approaches are all acceptable. The shorts can be shot in any film or video format, in either color or black-and-white.
Filmmakers must live within a 120-mile radius of St. Louis .
All films must be submitted on DVD.
There is no entry fee. Deadline is Aug. 31, 2007.
Submission of a short does not guarantee its use at the Pulitzer event.
To view the Pulitzer building, visit the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts Web site at www.pulitzerarts.org.
For more information, call Cinema St. Louis at 314-289-4150
DVD and entry form should be sent to: Cinema St. Louis