Visuals

Our second festival is rapidly approaching but there are still lots of ways you can get involved. At the moment we're looking for all sorts of visuals (old or new, short or long) to accompany the bands who'll be playing on our amazing stages. We are also asking film makers to submit silent films that, if selected, one of the bands will then compose a score for.

Mostly the visuals are to accompany the bands but The Cabinet of Living Cinema want to compose music to some visuals so they will choose 1 or more of the submitted films and compose its score. 
Work created to a brief:We are also looking for visuals created in response to particular briefs: Both visuals created in response to a brief set by a stage/installation team, and those created in response to the music of a band.
Stage briefs:There are 3 stages/installations that would like to have visuals for projection. Their briefs are as follows:
Stage 1:The theme for the stage is mechansims and  machinery and moving-parts, so we would be looking for visuals that related to that theme in any way.

We are looking for short chunks of footage - approx 5 mins long that can be edited together if need be. It can be fairly abstract, slo mo etc - to be effective as different bands are playing.
The films will be projected onto 2 screens either side of the stage. The 'screens' will actually be made of several screens overlapping, so the image will be broken up slightly when seen from angles, and will play across different planes, with sometimes parts of the image not visible.

It will be possible to focus on one single screen for certain works, but the overall idea is an image to be played over a split-up surface.
There will also be some cameramen filming and feeding their visuals to this stage, so we are also looking for anyone who would be interested in mixing this live feed with some other footage.
Stage 4:This stage would like non narrative visuals, particularly abstract colourful ones, that could be projected onto giant fans that will appear from the stage.
Stage 5:High colour or high contrast visuals to be projected into small shapes along the stage. 

Submission instructions:

We would like all visuals to be submitted on 2 dvds 
1 dvd should be a play on insertion (no menu) dvd lasting 50 mins (most likely with your material looped many times). The other dvd should be a data dvd with simply a .mov, .mp4, or .m4v file of your footage in its original (non-looped) length. Dimension wise 960x540 is fine. This will allow us to combine it with other footage to make a program that will last a set. If we have enough material, we will do this, rather than play the looped versions. All films should be silent.

Please send all dvds to:

Hidden Door
2F3
19 Panmure Place
Edinburgh EH3 9HP

Please ensure the dvds arrive by the 18th October

If you have already submitted a film for screening at Hidden Door and you would like it to be considered for projection during the bands’ performances, please send an email stating this. 

If you have any questions at all, please email Genevieve at genbicknell@gmail.com

If your film is selected you will get a free pass to the session of the festival that your film will be screened in.