*CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS*



Title:

Critical Media Film Festival



Description:

A film and video festival of theorized, historical, impractical, and 

experimental approaches to film production



Arranged by: Graduate students from UCLA Film, Television, and Digital 

Media Department



In association with:

Mediascape: The Journal of the Critical Studies Program at UCLA Melnitz 

Movies in the John Bridges Theater



Purpose:

Merge media theory with production practice



Need: Increasingly, media scholars make multimedia. Film production 

students are taught ‘high concept’ and discouraged to explore complex 

philosophical questions. This film festival will celebrate the media 

producing philosopher and philosophical media producer.



Example Submissions:

We encourage eclectic submissions that cross disciplines and blur 

genres. Submissions should be intellectually challenging but not 

obscure.



Examples include: a moving picture essay on any topic in cultural 

studies, a voice-over deconstruction of a behind-the-scenes episode, a 

reflexive documentary on a television program, or an aesthetically 

experimental exploration of the relationships between vision and 

cognition.



Submission Schedule:

Producers should immediately submit short or feature-length works on 

DVD with a short explanation and biography. The deadline is March 1, 

2007. Authors of selected videos will be notified immediately. Your 

submissions will not be returned.



Film Festival:

Films and videos selected will be shown in the 250-seat Bridges Theatre 

in a one-off festival on April 26, 2007. Mediascape will publish select 

videos, artist/theorist statements, and the film catalogue online in 

Summer, 2007.



Online Journal:

http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/index.htm



Contact:

Adam Fish: [log in to unmask], Ph: 323-916-3026; Jason Skonieczny: 

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Send Submission to:

Adam Fish

Department of Film, Television, Digital Media, UCLA

40 Westminster, Apt 3

Venice, CA 90291

(Notify him of your submission also by email: [log in to unmask])



The Venue:

Movies are shown at the James Bridges Theatre (Melnitz 1409) at UCLA.

All movies are free to UCLA students, staff, and faculty. Website: 

www.gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/~melnitz



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