OUTPUT Film Festival

We’re opening the doors once again for another round of Aarhus strangest, freest filmfestival. This is a filmfestival for 𝐨𝐝𝐝, 𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜, 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐬. We want to show films other filmfestivals wouldn’t dare show. We don’t mind if a film is shot on an old Nokia camera with Singstar microphones for audio; As long as it is somehow unique, worthwhile and/or entertaining, we will give it the spotlight it deserves.

Concretely our festival will be a one day festival showcasing strange films. We want to show *outsider cinema*, either tacky campy genrefilms from satire to horror and fantasy, or films that completely defy genres and labels. Even "Experimental" and "Arthouse" are kind of just genres at this point, and they come with a certain expected stylistic baggage. Authentically weird and different flims don't intend to be weird, they come from the heart.

Also, did I mention we want to show those so-bad-it's-good films people made with their friends years ago in high-school? Yes, we do! Please send them to us, the world wants to see 😤.

With our anti-elitist stance 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎-𝟑𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬. The run time is short in hopes of finding many different short films. We do not have a preference for when the film was made. The submitted films will be curated by a selected jury who will attempt to put together an entertaining and diverse program. We expect to exhibit anywhere between 15-30 short films.

OUTPUT Film Festival is inspired by similar festivals such as Fantasia Film Festival in Canada or Sitges Film Festival in Spain. Like Sitges and Fantasia, we want to create an inviting environment for diverse and independent film creators. Especially those who haven’t been through a traditional film school education. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬. We belive that it is just as valuable to have your film seen by a casual everyday audience as it is having it seen by cinephiles or industry veterans. This is a filmfestival for the people. We want to eschew formality and aim for a light-hearted, cozy vibe where people can mingle, celebrate and party. Submitting in your film not because you think this festival is fitting, but just because you want a film festival showing, any extra showing, on your CV or poster? Please don't. We're two people running most of this festival entirely for free in our spare time, and we already have enough work to do. The answer to the second question in the form is the first letter of every paragraph of the festival description. If you do not answer this, we will immediately disqualify your film. Then we know you've actually most likely read this. We know it's horrible and time consuming to submit your film to a ton of film festivals and hope you get into anything, especially when those film festivals charge money. But it also feels disrespectful to work pretty hard on a festival and see most submissions treat it as just another laurel.

The festival itself will have a bar serving drinks and complimentary champagne to celebrate, as well as a (depending on how our micro-budget planning goes) free dinner. Every block of films will be followed up by a Q & A session with some of the filmmakers.

The festival will conclude with an afterparty and open dance floor.

Elaborating a bit on how we curate films and what kind of films we want to show: Think "Outsider cinema". We like any films that break the mold in some shape or another, and we want to allow ourselves to show films even if they're stupid and "not artful enough", and even if they're not technically very competent. It's kind of hard to convey exactly what "genre" or specific type of film we're looking for, but we just really appreciate films that aren't doing what they're *supposed* to be doing. They're doing something stupid or overambitious or against everything they were taught in film school. It's easy to sell a film if it fits into a label. Even "art film" or "experimental" becomes a label because it's often a specific kind of aesthetic and structure they go for. So we really like idiosyncratic passion projects that a fund or production studio would try to "clean up" and fit into a more sellable box, and films that manage to defy existing labels.