The inaugural ReWilding: Climate-Focused Experimental Media-Arts Festival seeks experimental climate-focused films, video art, and animations - works that move beyond documenting issues to engage audiences and spur activism.

The festival will coincide with Western Michigan University's (WMU) Climate Emergency: Spring into Action 2024 hosted by the WMU Climate Change Working Group.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:
Imagining climate futures
Highlighting environmental injustices
Exploring personal and community climate impacts
Inspiring change through unconventional storytelling
Staying with the trouble, or how to live on a ruined planet
Second Nature
Non-Human Politics
Internet of Animals

ReWilding: Climate-Focused Experimental Media-Arts Festival aims to present works and to incubate a community for artists and change-makers taking bold creative risks on climate themes rarely shown in mainstream media.

We encourage artists worldwide to use their creative tools to produce unconventional moving images that can shake audiences out of inertia and get people engaged. Please submit your moving images through the FilmFreeway listing. Please include an artist statement, bio, 1-3 video stills, and a link or uploaded file.

Submission will be curated by Eric Souther, Jacklyn Brickman, and the WMU Audio Visual Student Club.

Awards & Prizes

Selected artists will receive a $100 screening fee.

Rules & Terms

• ReWilding Experimental Media Festival accepts entries of works completed in 2021-2024.

• Our screening format is Apple ProRes 422 or high bit rate H.264 -- if your screening material is different, we may convert it to one of these formats.

• If the original language is not English, please provide the work with English subtitles.

• By submitting, the artist warrants that they are the rightful owner of the submission and do not violate or infringe on any trademark, trade name, copyright, literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, or other intellectual property or personal rights.

• While the work submitted remains the property of the artist, ReWilding Experimental Media Festival reserves the right to use excerpts of submitted footage or stills to promote the festival.

• Maximum 2 entries per filmmaker

• Minimum run time 1 minute; Max run time 8 minutes.

• We plan to hold an in-person event in the Richmond Center for the Arts at Western Michigan University in the Spring of 24. The official date is to be announced shortly.

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  • Peter Whittenberger

    It was an absolute privilege to participate in the ReWilding Experimental Media Arts Festival. The communication was clear, the venue was great, and the organizers sent documentation after the event. Thank you so very much for including my work.

    April 2024
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