Open Call for International Video Art Festival

Eligibility Criteria

• The Festival is open to all international videoartists.
• Participation is free.
• Between all submitted video, will be done a final selection based on vote of a Jury composed by experts.
• The 30 selected artworks will become part of CAM permanent collection.
• All sended materials don’t will be return, and will be stored in the Festival’s archive like documentation.
• Sending the participation form, the artist accept fully the present rules.
• The Jury verdict is incontestable.

Selection Criteria

• The artist accept that his/her own video will be broadcasted online and offline, if selected, the video become part of permanent collection of CAM, and should be freely screened at CAM rooms.
• All the video, selected or not, become part of Magmart’s archive, and can be screened in any other place or event related to Festival, online or offline, with exclusion of any commercial use.
• Still-frame from video can be freely used for the Festival communication, mentioning title and author of artwork.
• The omission, or the incorrect filling, of one or more parts of form itself, will involve the exclusion of video by selection of Jury.
• Without this donation act, the video will be rule out by group of 30 selected artworks, and replaced by those immediately subsequent in Jury’s ranking.

Application Requirements

• The video must be fully realized with digital tech.
• The video must be mono-channel.
• The video must be sent in format .mpeg, .avi or .mov (PAL); any other format will be rejected.
• They absolutely reject .m2v format.
• The max lenght of video don’t must surpass 10 minutes.
• The video must be accompanied by participation form fully and correctly compiled.
• The video must be accompanied by a still-frame from video itself, in format .jpg, and with dimension not less than 1280px/720px.
• The video must have a quality (dimension, resolution) right for a public screening, without any further shipping of an high-res copy. Suggested size is 1920px/1080px (16:9); minimum size required is 1280px/720px.
• The video file must not exceed 2gb!
• Any author can participate with max 5 video.
• If the video is a shooting of a performance, this must be fully visible within video length.
• Video already submitted to previous editions of Magmart, even if not selected by Jury, aren’t admissible.

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