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OPEN CALL: Short Films Inspired By Creative Collaborations
Opportunity for screening new work online and at ‘Pairings II’ exhibition

Stroud International Textiles (SIT) launches exciting new initiative.
As part of the ‘Pairings II’ exhibition and Symposium that open this spring SIT is launching a new challenge: to artists and designer makers to create an original short film – up to 150 seconds long – on the spring exhibition theme of collaborating and sharing creative ideas.
The films should focus on collaboration and can show individuals exchanging skills, the shared use of equipment, tools, or can be a more conceptual presentation.

Entrants can interpret ‘Pairings’ however they like – whether about techniques, ideas, physical objects, skills or conversations – or anything else. (It could be about Pairing the film-making technology itself).

Films can be in documentary, animation, live action, comedy, drama, performance or any other genre. Any artist can enter – from anywhere in the world.
The short films do not have to be highly polished we want them to be original and imaginative.

Whether shot on a mobile phone, Super8 or HD, whether it’s hand-drawn or 3D – we want to see what results from your own Pairings and collaborations,

Selected work will be shown online to run alongside the main “Pairings II” exhibition and will be showcased on SIT website, Facebook and other online locations. We will also be screening a selection of the films at the Pairings exhibition throughout May.

Deadline for final submissions is 1st April 2012.
To download full details and enter, go to
http://www.stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk/pairingsopen.html

Once it’s ready you are asked to submit your film via Vimeo.com.

This fantastic initiative compliments the ‘Pairings II-conversations & collaborations’ exhibition at the Museum in the Park Stroud that opens on 28th April. Leading designer makers will display the outcomes of these playful duets and trios and the conversations between the makers, where wood meets metal meets stitch – where paper meets embroidery meets radical knitting – and where you can observe the results of a textile artist collaborating with a plastic surgeon and a pattern cutter from Saville Row.

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