Stage 5

Cast your mind back to January and the first ever Hidden Door. Remember the maze? Well forget the maze! It’s dead and gone. Instead Hidden Door 2 has 5 glorious stages occupying the Roxy Hall. Each stage is a collaboration between artists, musicians, film-makers and anyone else who’s kicking about.

The lovely Greer Pester is heading up stage 5 at Hidden Door and is working on a design that sees each artist involved in the stage being given a ‘stage component’ to work with. These will take the form of 2d and 3d shapes made from a variety of materials.

Each component (think massive building blocks) can be painted/manipulated /decorated--projected on however the artist pleases and then composed for each performance or slot meaning artists can choose to personalize their blocks for specific performances and collaborations with musicians.

Also, we should give a massive ‘woop woop’ to Greer and Bernie Reid who produced our fabulous new logo and poster. They’re rather talented!

http://www.greercummiskeypester.com/

Call for submissions: Films

Call for submissions: Hidden Door festival, Edinburgh 22nd - 24th October 2010.

Hidden Door is a multidisciplinary arts festival that brings creative talent from all disciplines and backgrounds together, showcases new talent across the arts, and celebrates the quality and innovation happening right here in Scotland.

Films can be in any genre and up to 15 mins in length, (although we may take longer films if they work particularly well in the program).

Films should be uploaded to Vimeo and then a link emailed to genbicknell@gmail.com Please include the date the film was made, which category it comes under ie fiction, documentary experimental etc, and a short biography or couple of lines about yourself and crew. This is the preferred method but we will also accept films by post. Please address to Magda Dragan, 16/2 Mertoun Place, Edinburgh, EH11 1JZ. Unfortunately we cannot return items posted.

Deadline for submissions is September 12th 2010. If you are currently working on a film and it will be finished after September 12th, let us know and it might still be possible to include it.

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

Hidden Door 2

After the success of our first Hidden Door Festival we're busy working hard to get Hidden Door 2 together. There will be more music, art, performance and poetry for your delectation and delight. As the event draws closer we'll be posting all sorts of titbits up here so keep checking back...