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flickerings film showcase |
| Flickerings is more than just a film festival: it's a community and a conversation. Each year since 2001, filmmakers, critics, and film buffs at every level come together for a week of screenings, seminars, workshops, discussions, networking and vision-building as a part of the annual Cornerstone Festival, a large music and arts event held each summer in Central Illinois. Cornerstone draws 15,000+ from across the country and around the world, and is known for edgy celebration of the arts and exploration of ideas within a faith context. What that means for Flickerings is this: we're interested in honest grappling with the human condition, in narrative form or otherwise. We're interested less in answers than good questions: the same "flickerings" of reality and insight that appear in artworks of all traditions, stabs of recognition that surprise, awaken, inspire, provoke, and move us first of all as human beings. Over the years we've grappled together with the visions of artists like Krzysztof Kieslowski, Roberto Rossellini, Michael Haneke, the Dardenne brothers. We've taken vows of stripped-down truth-telling with the Dogme'95 Movement. Iranian Cinema has shattered our expectations and expanded our sense of the possible. The insights of cinephiles like André Bazin have challenged us to shake off the falseness of the wider film culture and our own dishonesty and reach for something real — as both film watchers, and film makers. Flickerings supports the work of new filmmakers in our annual Film Showcase, a program featuring new works in a range of genres, styles and visions, from professionals to students to underground filmmakers. |
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call for entries |
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The
Flickerings Film Showcase is accepting entries for our 2008 program
(July 2-5). The emphasis is on short films — twenty minutes or less
— and low-budget films. We remain flexible in virtually all categories:
"Film," obviously is broadly defined: entries may be shot on any format, but
screening formats are limited as of 2008 to DVD. And while this non-juried
Showcase is geared toward short films, we welcome longer entries — with
the caveat that they'd better be very, very good, since the inclusion of a
single feature means the exclusion of many shorts; therefore, the shorter the
film, the more likely it is to be included in the Showcase. Only works
completed after January 1, 2007 should be submitted for entry. (The Showcase
may be supplemented with additional films at the programmers' discretion.)
Foreign entries must have English subtitles. Films previously submitted may
not be re-entered. And please, no music videos or other advertising,
including "documentaries" which are intended primarily as promotional or
advocacy pieces. What kinds of films are we interested in? We don't
always even know. In other words, we're loathe to draw lines so firmly as to
inadvertantly exclude films that would continue our growth and maturity as a
festival and individual film watchers. Some of the filmmakers or schools
mentioned above offer some clues as to what we like. The main
thing to keep in mind is that Flickerings isn't just a film festival, but a
community and conversation — and that we can only continue to
grow with the infusion of fresh visions and challenges. You are invited to
take part in this very exciting process with us. |
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