The FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA - MONTREAL (FNC) launches a call for projects for the 34rd Edition of the Festival, which will be presented in Montreal, CANADA, October 13 to 23, 2005. In keeping with its aim of promoting cinema d'auteur, independent video, and creativity in new media, the FNC is constantly on the lookout for new and original works. The FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA is currently seeking features, documentary, shorts and new media works.

All genres and formats are accepted.

Regulations and online entry form at WWW.NOUVEAUCINEMA.CA

DEADLINE FOR ENTRY: JUNE 15, 2005

Questions or comments? Please contact us: INFO@NOUVEAU CINEMA.CA

The FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA - MONTREAL (FNC) launches a call for projects

for the 34rd Edition of the Festival, which will be presented in Montreal, CANADA, October 13 to 23, 2005.

In keeping with its aim of promoting cinema d'auteur, independent video, and creativity in new media,

the FNC is constantly on the lookout for new and original works.

The FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA is currently seeking features, documentary, shorts and new media works.

All genres and formats are accepted.

ENTRY PROCEDURE

DEADLINE FOR ENTRY: JUNE 15, 2005

Regulations and online entry form available May 1st at nouveaucinema.ca

Questions or comments? Please contact us: info@nouveaucinema.ca

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The ENTERmultimediale 2 festival is a pendant of a festival of the same name that took place in the year 2000. If asked Why again? I would, along with my colleagues, answer that there is still certain gap in art, unclosed brackets, something outside the official tendencies, that affects everything around it just like black gaps affect certain parts of the outer space. It almost magically attracts, many risk their convenient careers to explore it, but it also repels, since it cannot provide the certainty of well-tread roads, methods and principles.

The festival of art and mew media – by its mere existence – corrupts all efforts to stupefy the global masses of TV-viewers who submit themselves to dull sit-coms or all kinds of shows, the only purpose of which is for the people to be seen and experience those proverbial 15 minutes of fame. The contemporary television production that transforms all these global phenomena into local forms is by chance becoming a winner even in departments that even the communist regime had to leave almost intact – taste, esthetic perception and independent thinking. The society then perceives any art as something that must be, that is compulsory, even though it has aged dramatically, it stands distant from contemporary problems, it is even a little boring and as a result it resembles the unpleasantly tasting cod oil that we were fed at the grammar school to “preserve our health“.

We are trying to prove that there really exists new and entertaining art that resonates with the newest developments in the society and time and space in which we live. The festival changes the point of view that is traditionally used to experience art: canvases, brushes, chisels and musical scores are no longer enough. The visitors of the festival will meet art absorbing the times, ways of thinking, energy, technology, science and also for example the design of computer games. This art is actual, it attacks the frontiers of human possibilities and provokes all kinds of experiments: dance projects in virtual reality, navigation through space directed by the analysis of brain waves or a theatre play performed in conditions of zero gravity. What all of these projects have in common is their aim to melt independent artistic thinking with the reality of the 21st century. Is it still theatre, music, art, film, video? Or rather a scientific, biological or mathematical computer experiment? The contemporary art provokes, it is hard to define, it often mixes contradictory elements. The public often has trouble understanding “what it is about”, the science distances itself from it and the “classical” artists feel threatened.

Interdisciplinarity is the main feature of art in the digital age. The contemporary artists are bearers of combined characteristics of scientists, researchers, sociologists, psychoanalysts, dancers, painters and composers. The gap between science and art is gradually being filled….