12 May 2010

Medrar for Contemporary Art: Call for Submissions - 4th Cairo Video Festival

Call for Submissions

4th Cairo Video Festival
Video Art & Experimental films

Deadline for submissions: 15th of June 2010

Medrar for Contemporary Art is sending out an open Call for Submissions to the Forth Video Festival hosted in Goethe institute Cairo-Downtown.

Initiated by the Cairo-based artist initiative Medrar for Contemporary Art in 2005, this festival continues its focus on providing a platform for sharing and discussing newly produced high concept / low budget experimental videos. Based on a call for works by emerging artists, the festival program takes the format of a concise series of video screening on accompanied by talks/discussions with active video-makers and curators to tackle some of key themes and issues presented in the works.

more information and application from:
medrar.org/4thvf.html

About Us
Medrar for Contemporary Art is a common cultural corporate and philanthropic platform for young emerging artists based in Egypt.
It aims to contribute to the motivation of different means of communication, developing experiences and financial support for contemporary praxis on the national, regional and international level.
Medrar aims to drive the interest of young emerging artists and provide them with chances of experimentation and accession by encouraging their activities and the intercultural exchange between them globally, as well as creating a space for dialogue between young art critics by producing serial prospectuses and critique researches and providing data base for curatorial based projects.