Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival

ONLY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND VIDEO ART!

Pebbles Underground film and video art is an online platform focused on showcasing experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget moving image projects by artist-humans from all over the world. If you're making absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, queer, political, slow film, performance, dance films, or something no one has the name for yet – we're here for you!

CRITERIA:
- Experimental, underground films and video art
- Experimental documentaries (including mockumentaries)
- Experimental animation
- Screendance, experimental dance/performance
- Web-based experimental and/or interactive projects

In 2024 we'll be hosting Summer and Winter Screenings, each encompassing multiple curated programs. The programs in the Summer Screenings will be streaming from June 8 to 18, those in the Winter Screenings will be streaming December 15 - 21.

If you are a filmmaker from Palestine, Georgia, Iran, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, Belarus, North Korea, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, South Sudan, Ukraine please write us for a submission discount or a fee waiver code. In your email, please include the link to the work you are planning to submit.

The artists selected for the programs keep ALL the rights, and we ask for permission again to include the film in an online screening.

CURATORS - Special topics: in addition to the regular open theme programs described above, we would like to extend a call to curators working with video artists and experimental filmmakers and wishing to suggest online programs on environmental issues, or issues of indigenous and minority rights and armed conflicts oppressing minority populations (anywhere in the world, not just Americas). This category is password protected, write us an email if you're reading this, and have something in mind. In the email, please describe your idea, the topic you wish to dedicate the screening program to, and include the links to the films you are planning to include (with passwords, if applicable). In addition, please include your curatorial statement.

We are using a video hosting service with DRM encryption, to prevent illegal download of your art films during our online screenings. We are not using youtube, or vimeo.

All online programs will be FREE TO WATCH, so get ready for a delicious explosion of art!

For questions: pebblesunderground@gmail.com

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Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.