TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE Festival will take place in Tranås (Sweden) from the 1st to the 8th of July 2023 and online.
The film screening is focused on experimental films and videopoems from all over the world and we are happy to open the new call for films!

Submit your film in one of these two sections:
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MAGMA - OPEN CALL FOR EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS
By definition, magma is a burning matter, blend of liquid and gaseous substances in a continuous state of agitation under the surface of the Earth. We are looking for magmatic forms of audiovisuals, unconventional moving images that burn on the screen, breaking with common rules of aesthetics and narrative. The festival is open to national and international filmmakers. Any film with no limitation of duration or genre is welcome to apply.
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GEMS - OPEN CALL FOR VIDEOPOEMS
A collection of precious stones. We are looking for videopoems, those films that stand on the border between audiovisual languages and words - written or performed. The festival is open to national and international filmmakers. Any film with no limitation of theme or duration is welcome to apply.

And for all the filmmakers submitting to the festival there will be two more opportunities:

1. Your successful entry to the magma section may be chosen to be involved in another inter-disciplinary creative project that runs alongside the festival. A group of poets will take a selection of experimental films and make attempts to translate the content of a short film from one medium to another. In a similar way to which poets may make a literary translation from one language to another; this is an experiment in translating a piece of art made from light into a piece of art made from sound.

2. There is also an international filmmakers’ residency that takes place during the festival in Tranås. Filmmakers who submit have the opportunity to apply to be a participant in this residency and share in an intensive creative experience with a small group of fellow filmmakers from around the world. The residency is curated by Swedish film-maker Erica Elfström who is based in France and allows for a deeper engagement with the festival programme.

(As this is a free-entrance festival, we ask you to pay a small fee for the submission of your film, in order to support the festival and make it possible to happen)

Rules & Terms

1. Dates and Place
Tranås At The Fringe - International Screening of Experimental Films and Videopoems is a film screening that will be held from the 1st to the 8th of July in Tranås (Sweden) and online, within the context of Tranås At The Fringe festival. In case of force majeure making it impossible to run the screenings also as live events, these will take place just online.

2. Purposes
Tranås At The Fringe - International Film Festival of Experimental Films and Videopoems wants to bring in Tranås, a small town in Sweden, a quality selection of experimental films and videopoems and aims to become a cultural gathering for film lovers and professionals, to support the creation of networks between filmmakers and the local communities and to inspire exchanges between filmmakers and professionals coming from different artistic disciplines. At the same time, the screening will be held online, accessible worldwide, for the duration of the festival.

3. Sections of the festival

MAGMA / International experimental films
The experimental films submitted must have a duration of maximum 40 minutes (opening and ending credits included). They must include subtitles in English or Swedish (where the original language is not one of these two). There is no limitation for the number of works that each author can submit.

GEMS / International videopoems
The videopoems submitted must have a duration of maximum 30 minutes (opening and ending credits included). They must include subtitles in English or Swedish (where the original language is not one of these two). There is no limitation for the number of works that each author can submit.

4. Deadlines
Submission from: 3 September 2022
Deadline for submission: 15 March 2023
Notification date: 5 April 2023
The selected artists must send a screening copy of their films by: 5 May 2023

5. General dispositions
The authors and/or the production companies authorise the publication of their personal data as well as of the ones of their artwork on the festival’s website and on the festival’s catalogue and their related diffusion to press media and/or social media for promotional sakes.
They also agree that an extract of their work (up to a maximum of 30 seconds) may be used with the aim of promoting At The Fringe - International Festival of Experimental Films and Videopoems, in any context and language, by traditional and new media platforms.

Films and videos will be screened, when it is possible, in the screening format specified in the entry form. The organisation, even though being rigorously committed in the safekeeping of the artworks (in digital format), will not respond for any damage or loss that these could be subjected to, from the moment of the arrival on. The participation to the festival imply the entire acceptance of these regulations.

Though the submission of the entry form, the authors and/or the production companies authorise:
- to be included in At The Fringe - International Festival of Experimental Films and Videopoems archive;
- the screening of their film (without screening fee) during the festival and in any future event linked to the festival At The Fringe for cultural sakes (reviews, retrospectives, cine-forums...) or educational ones.
There is no such case in which films and videos will be screened with profits.

BY SENDING A FILM OR VIDEO SUBMISSION TO THE FESTIVAL, ONE ACCEPTS THE PRESENT DOCUMENT IN ITS ENTIRETY.