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Festival start: 28 October 2022      Festival end: 30 October 2022

Mission

The mission of the Moving Body platform is dedicated to connecting artists, mediums and audiences through art that shares a strong choreographic sensibility. How do we move? What makes us move? Towards what are we moving? How do we move from an individual towards a collective body shaping the future of history? How do we move in time of Catastrophe? These are the issues which underline any program selection.

Formats

Мoving Body Platform navigates its mission through the following formats:

- Moving Body Festival - a yearly based festival in Varna, Bulgaria which program includes short films screenings, lectures, workshops, talks and performance program;

- Critical moves - an international film competition program with screenings in the frame of the festival;

- Translation on Air - a monthly rubric, dedicated on short screendance films;

- Habitat - a production territory for own art works, as well as commissioned ones;

- Our movement - an educational program that includes workshops, ateliers and practices;

- Let’s move - a touring program within Bulgaria;

- The way we move matters - an advocacy line that includes official meetings and public discussions.

MB#7 | Critical moves | Open call 2022
THE WAY WE MOVE MATTERS

The temporary collective body that we form every year has an increasingly powerful charge of energy. It seeks, provokes, quest around, wants to see, speak and hear. It maps the routes along which artists, media and audiences move through art with strong conceptual and choreographic sensibility. The edition unfolds in a rich program that hides entrances and exits to a variety of contexts and topics which meets us with works in-processes, workshops, performances, exhibitions, screenings, discussions and party situations.

We perceive the critical areas that we will offer to your attention as a richfull territory in which to explore, to stand and observe, to provoke, to stand up and insist that it is important - How do we move? What makes us move? Towards what are we moving? How do we move from an individual towards a collective body shaping the future of history? How do we move in time of Catastrophe?

Welcome to edition number seven!

Focus

We are searching for short films which represent experiments in video medium, art works and dance with strong choreographic sensibility and original concepts. Films that explore new audiovisual lines and challenge the viewer’s perspective are very welcome to submit. The category is open for a wide range of genres, including experimental, narrative, social, documentary and hybrid film forms as dance films made by virtual and augmented reality.

We are curious to receive

- films that are tapping into Moving Body’s platform core questions;

- films with sharp and clear concept;
innovative and provocative video art works that push the boundaries of the film medium;

- films related to dance, choreography or movement;

- films between 1 - 15 min.;

- films not older than 2 years;

- films not submitted to previous Moving Body editions;

- max. 2 submissions per filmmaker

We are not interested to receive:

- trailers;
- recordings of performances;
- commercials.

A film will be considered by the festival's selection committee once the online form has been filled out and the selection screener link has been sent, before 18th June 2022.