This year's hungry eyes festival will take place in the urban exhibition space KiZ (Kultur im Zentrum in Gießen, Germany) and poses the question of how cinematic works can relate to, as well as challenge that space. For its 5th edition, the festival is once again looking for artistic works that situate themselves at the intersection of film, performance and installation art and question film in an interdisciplinary way.
The program will explore what constitutes the medium film and how cinematographic elements and working methods can be translated into other media. The festival wants to investigate together to what extent film can set political or social impulses, how films or projections can intervene in real existing space, which presumptions about (cinematic) aesthetics can be turned upside down, or in which relation the repeatable two-dimensional film stands to the performance emerging in the moment and both in turn to the installation work intervening in space and unlimited in time.
The hungry eyes festival is once again looking for artistic works that situate themselves at the intersection of film, performance and installation art and question film in an interdisciplinary way. There are four categories within which applications can be made:
- short film: regardless of the year and country of production. No thematic restrictions. Organisers particularly welcome submissions that reflect on film, deal with it in an experimental way, resist formal categorizations and/or understand themselves as cinematic experimental arrangements.
short film for the trash-night: films that take themselves seriously in their unseriousness and do not take themselves too seriously in their seriousness – that develop their artistic potential beyond technical skills – that have failed in their own ambitions or have never been finished – that deal with film and their own artistic position in an unpretentious and self-ironic way.
installation art: that relates in content and/or form to film, visual media, image spaces or projections and can be realized in an exhibition space. It is not necessarily required to work with video technology.
performance: performative formats that relate in content and/or form to film, visual media, image spaces or projections and can be realized in the exhibition space. It is not necessarily required to work with video technology. Organisers are also explicitly looking for works whose cinematic examination takes place in other (non-audiovisual) ways.
Application deadline is 15 February.Details about how to apply can be found here.
hungry eyes festival is a festival at the intersection of film, performance, and installation art. It emerged in 2017 from the film festival Filmsommer and has since sharpened its profile as an interdisciplinary festival that questions film and cinematic work not only on the screen, but also in performative and installation contexts. By changing the venues within the city of Giessen, each issue has a different focus in this examination. The festival program consists of several short film series as well as installative and performative positions.
