Imperfectu: Festival Internacional de Cine y Estudios de Género (0)

Festival start: 16 November 2017      Festival end: 18 November 2017

MISSION

Imperfectu. International Film and Gender Studies Festival, creates reflections based on film, diverse artistic and academic proposals, individual and organizational experiences, and social movements, in order to generate an interdisciplinary analysis that impacts commonly widespread approaches to gender.

WHAT IS IMPERFECTU?

With the word “imperfectu” we give new value to the concept of imperfection, against the overvalued concept of perfection. The ending “-tu” avoids the use of spanish language gender morpheme (imperfecto/imperfecta) in the adjective of the noun “imperfection”, while referring to the spanish pronoun “tú” (you) in order to intervene in the relationship with those who read us, alluding them/you in the word: Imperfectu. This play on words then continues and extends between English and Spanish: I’m perfect u, Imperfect u, or I’m perfectu. “Imperfectu” is a proposed adjective that seeks to identify those who have been positioned outside the norm because they somehow transgress the binary system of sex, gender, and heteronormativity.

Imperfectu. International Film and Gender Studies Festival explores, through film, art, and gender studies, the infinite possibilities that the fields of sex, gender, and sexuality offer us, questioning the convictions to which the standardized system of gender and sexual normativity limit us.

The festival implements an analysis and multiple reflections that affect the representations commonly disseminated with respect to gender. The proposal defends the diversity of identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations, while encompassing varied and alternative feminisms.

Imperfectu was born in the city of Tijuana the first days of April 2014 with the idea of consolidating an annual meeting with local, national, and international representation, by the end of July 2015 it returns with a second edition, and in 2016 travels to Mexico City for its third edition.

In 2017, the fourth edition will be held in Tijuana, Mexico, from November 16 to the 18. This edition of Imperfectu will have as its central axis the relationship between Body, Science, and Technology. The objective is to bring interested audiences a programing that showcases cinema that has been and is being made surrounding various topics, such as: postgenderism, cyberfeminism, cyborg anthropology, disability and transhumanism, the intersex body and medicine, the transgender body and medicine, gender / sexuality and robots, the future of contraceptive methods, eugenics, girls / young women and new technologies, queer/cyborg identity and aesthetics, rejuvenation technology, and immortality.

For more information, please visit our website: www.imperfectu.com

1. All selected works will be programmed and exhibited during festival days.

2. All selected works for this edition will become part of Imperfectu’s audiovisual archive. The filmmakers authorize the festival the exhibition of their project (or excerpts thereof) in events where Imperfectu participates, for educational purposes, and/or festival promotion.

3. Imperfectu accepts works in any genre (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, etc.) regardless of the original format (video, HD, 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, etc.)

4. There is no limit to the duration of the audiovisual work, nor with respect to the date or origin of the production.

5. Submitted works must contain or make a reference to any topic that relates body-science or body-technology.

6. If your work is in Spanish, you must send it with English subtitles. If your work is in English, you must send it with Spanish subtitles. If your work is in any other language, you must send it with both Spanish and English subtitles.

7. To register your work, you must pay the registration fee (15 USD / 30 USD).

8. If your work is selected, you must send in a high resolution copy in .mp4 format with the following attachments: press kit, production photos, DVD/bluray cover design, postcards, posters, and any links to reviews.

9. The regular open call deadline is May 1st 2017. The late deadline is June 1st 2017.

10. The selected projects will be published on September 1st 2017 at http://imperfectu.com