ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (0)

Festival start: 19 August 2016      Festival end: 26 August 2016

The end of ideologies has left two words, social and capital, as a pair of twin archetypes, social/kapital, which is strangely guiding our time now. That strangeness (in fact is a mere fairness because of accumulation of those two words’ ideological histories) is located on the interpretation position of both which inevitably are inseparable anymore since have turned into mutational forms of knowledge of how we appropriate all activities and cultural production in that context. This mutated knowledge is the meaning of both words in its similar proportion namely, social / capital.

The context plays its role in the transitional period now, which is on the pragmatic pressures rather than symbolic desires. Only seems both words repel each other although they actually equally inherent in mutual dependence and to their implications on our reality these days.

As a manifest of the archetypal fall, both concepts are merely placed into grand discourse throughout the centuries of cultural production on the top of ivory tower, a place where comprehensions of cultural production is likely to be seen and interpreted centrally–monoconsentric—through intricacy and sophistication of powers (political) and technologies (aesthetic). In other words, the language that articulates practices to imagine social and capital at that time and became our legacy of thinking, only allowing a value obtained from contemplation, while a variety of performativity which is celebrated in it sublimated as myths about World View. However, as the withdrawal of modernism, a shift in the understanding and meaning occurs when the concepts of geography and anthropology transformed most phenomenally by massive presence of new life habituation through the media that we are using now. social/kapital reduces those myths and coexist or along together with our performativity celebrations today.

Reduction of those myths seems in this circumstance: A productional milieu from vertical experience symbolically into horizontal experience pragmatically. In other words, the quest for suprasensory concept shifted to the quest for visible interpretation alias everyday.

A new literacy was stretched in front of the most present opportunities of cultural productions. Thus, the end of ideologies, which can be read as globalism nowadays has directed the production structure into contemporary guilds through the most advanced concept of the meaning existence of social and capital. This latter reality results in social reproduction produced by capital markets certainly everywhere either in the economic context or anthropological. Avoiding the strongest possibility of sloganistic assumptions to emerge about the revolutions of ideologies when writing this term, SOCIAL/CAPITAL are arranged in inductive letters, social/kapital is about to put perspective on peripheral domains.

Practices imagine anthropocentric into the concepts of citizenship or citizens as units of community—either as a representation of what would be ideal, either as a sheer performativity celebration, now it is common that the behaviors in a new world (global) when socialism and capitalism become mere of ‘world view’ concepts from the past and no longer sturdy as the two dominant poles which were constructed and applied throughout history by various powers to codify its inhabitants.

Idea and concept about social/kapital citizens have been merging various cultural activities of their existence in a new world (global) without—or only vaguely— memories of the state except local identity as a nation and their differential statuses. Individualism in the body of citizens is imagined almost as closely as shadow of something collective (collectivity). Is there a so-called global citizen complete with attributes and identity really exist apart from geographical and societal changes in which the capital motive is its creator?

Cash Prizes: 4,000$

-ARKIPEL AWARD.
Awarded to documentary and experimental films which compete in main competition and chosen by jury members.

-SPECIAL AWARD.
Awarded to documentary and experimental films which screened in Festival and chosen by Festival committee.

FILM SUBMISSION REGULATIONS

Rules and regulations for film submissions to ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival 2016.

1. GENERAL.
1.1. ABOUT THE FESTIVAL.
ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival is a part of Forum Lenteng program. The 4th edition of ARKIPEL takes place in Jakarta, on August 19 – 26, 2016.

1.2. SUBMISSIONS AND DEADLINES.
Submission to the Festival is open to short and feature length documentaries, experimental documentaries and innovative visual documentary productions. Applicants can submit more than 1 film.

Submission fee is FREE. Films submitted to ARKIPEL are:

* Documentary and experimentals,
* Worldwide film productions.
* Finished after January 1, 2013.

Deadline for entries:
April 7, 2016.

1.3. SCREENING FORMATS.
DVD and digital video file with QuickTime .mov extension (Apple ProRes/H.264 video codec). Only for single channel film projection.

1.4. LANGUAGE POLICY.
Films are screened in original language versions. In principle, if not with English dialogue, films must be subtitled in English. In case the original spoken language is in English but the subtitle is not embedded yet on the film, please upload the subtitle transcription in the column provided in the entry form.

1.5. PERMISSION.
ARKIPEL receives one or more works by director during festival and would like to ask for your permission to include them in ARKIPEL Archive, Forum Lenteng Library, and website www.arkipel.org.

2. COMPETITIONS
2.1. ARKIPEL AWARD.
Awarded to documentary and experimental films which compete in main competition and chosen by jury members.

2.2. SPECIAL AWARD.
Awarded to documentary and experimental films which screened in Festival and chosen by Festival committee.

3. PREVIEW SCREENERS AND MATERIALS
3.1. REQUESTED MATERIALS.
The applicant is requested to send either a DVD screener or an online preview of the film. The film submitted must be a finished work. Each participant may submit as many films they have.
(Please note, that the DVD Screener will not be returned.)

3.2. ADDRESS.
All screeners and physical material must be sent to::

ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival
a/n FORUM LENTENG:
Jl. H. Saidi No. 69 RT.007/RW.05,
Tanjung Barat – Jagakarsa
Jakarta – 12530
INDONESIA

Contact: +6281315779517 (mobile)

Links for online preview can be submitted in the entry form.

4. SELECTED FILMS
4.1. ANNOUNCEMENT.
Selected films will be announced through registered email and on the Festival website www.arkipel.org between June, 2016.

4.2. FESTIVAL CATALOGUE.
In order to compile the ARKIPEL 2016 Catalogue, for each selected film the Festival must receive a duly completed entry form and requested materials as stated in paragraph 3.2. The requested materials should be sent/submitted as soon as possible upon acceptance of the official invitation, not later than June, 2016.

The ARKIPEL 2016 accepts no liability in the event that its publications reproduce inaccuracies in submitted materials. The written programme notes are entirely at the discretion of the Festival.

4.3. CATALOGUE CREDITS.
In principle the catalogue will include the following technical and artistic credits: original title, international title, director, running time, country(ies) of production, year of production, premiere status, format, production company, producer, and distribution company/world sales.

4.4. PRESS KITS.
The owners of the films participating in the ARKIPEL 2016 are requested to send separately an adequate amount of press-kits (EPK-Electronic Press Kit) and stills to be made available for Press Conferences and for distribution to the press and festival guests.

4.5. TRAILERS AND EXCERPTS.
After official selection of a film the ARKIPEL 2016 is qualified to use excerpts from the film, with a maximum of 3 minutes, nationally and internationally for promotional purposes (for short films, the total duration of the excerpts is not to exceed more than 10% of the film’s running time).

4.6. STILLS.
For promotion of the whole selection and of each selected film, the ARKIPEL 2016 website is allowed to use any photo or digital film clip (of less than 3 min. duration).

4.7. SCREENING SCHEDULE.
General scheduling and the timetabling of the public and press screenings are entirely at the discretion of the ARKIPEL 2016.

4.8. WITHDRAWAL.
A selected film cannot be withdrawn from the programme after July 1, 2016.

5. DISPATCH OF THE FILM MATERIAL OF SELECTED FILMS
Detailed shipment information of the selected films screened at ARKIPEL 2016.

5.1. MATERIAL AVAILABILITY.
Unless authorized by the Festival, the film material must be made available for the whole festival period and the print/video must arrive in Indonesia before July 20, 2016. The sender is requested to inform the Festival on the means of dispatch, date of shipment and Airway bill number.

In case the Festival will share the film material with another festival it is the responsibility of the participant to inform both festivals of correct shipping addresses and all contact details.

5.2. SHIPMENT POLICY.
The film must be sent prepaid by sender. No collect shipments are accepted unless authorized by the Festival. The Festival will pay for the return transportation charges of film materials (external hard drive or flash drive). Except the material on DVD and Blu-Ray will not be returned for archiving purpose), excluding any additional costs for tax and custom clearance in country of return.

5.3. RETURN OF FILM MATERIALS.
All film materials in the form of Hard/Flash Drive External (Except on DVD and Blu-Ray) will be returned to participant or apppointed representative within eight weeks after the Festival. It’s the responsibility of each participant to inform the Festival in due time on (any change in) the details of the return address as well as the desired date of arrival at the return address.

6. CLOSURE
Entry and participation of films implies unconditional acceptance of the regulations. In unspecified cases, any final decisions are at the discretion of the festival.

To submit a film, please fill out an Entry Form here.

Thank you!