BLDGBLOG - Architectural Film Fest: Call For Entries

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Architectural Film Fest: Call For Entries - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:13:00 +0000

I'm super-excited to announce that Materials & Applications and BLDGBLOG have teamed up to curate an architectural film fest, as part of this year's Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles. In fact, we're putting together a ton of interesting stuff; I'll be making more announcements here on BLDGBLOG soon.
Part of our little sub-festival, then, will be an entire evening full of short architectural films – and so we thought we'd put out a general call for anyone with a film of their own that they might want to see screened for the adoring, semi-famous, and well-tanned crowds of southern California.
The obvious caveat is that your film has to be about architecture, landscape, and/or the built environment – or, at least, it has to involve architecture, landscape, and/or the built environment, and in a way that isn't just backdrop.
Even more specifically, we'd love to show a whole bunch of architectural machinima, site animations, project fly-throughs, or other cinematic spaces, such as those generated annually at the the Bartlett School of Architecture's Unit 15. (International submissions are a-ok with me).
Need more ideas? Then check out cinematic urbanism; stop by the glass avenues of Paris 2054; or watch one of these two films. If that's not enough, consider reading this article by Jonathan Glancey, in which he claims:What is fascinating, and very much an area for further research, is the close relationship between radical architectural design and the cinema. Much of the best of modern architecture, combining digital and three-dimensional design processes, is cinematic in scope and feeling.And, of course, though Glancey doesn't explicitly state this, many of the most exhilirating films to watch are architecural in both structure and reference.

[image: From Christian Volckman's Renaissance].

Less abstractly, perhaps you've just recorded a video interview with an architect or urban planner – and it's actually interesting – or you've just driven around Manhattan fifty times, filming each circuit, speeding the whole thing up till it's less than three minutes... Or whatever: we just want films about architecture, landscape, and/or the built environment. There's a whole lot of leeway there.
Your film has to be at least a minute long – though it can consist of multiple, smaller films, edited together – and no longer than ten minutes. It also has to be good.
Finally, to be included, your film has to be submitted either to BLDGBLOG or to Materials & Applications before Friday, April 6th, 2007. Include your name; your affiliation, if you have one; the title of your film; its running length; and a short description of the actual film. We'll then go through all the submissions and choose the ones that will be featured at the festival (specific date, time, and location to be announced shortly – though it will probably be the evening of May 9th).
Pending further developments, eligible formats for submission include Region 1 DVDs (email me for my address, or just ship it to Materials & Applications) or files sent via services like YouSendIt and MegaUpload.
So get cracking! Who knows who will see your film. This time next year, you could be directing X-Men 4 and flipping the bird at all the kids you went to architecture school with...

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