Call for work: Videobardo International Videopoetry Festival
The long-running Videobardo Archivo y Festival Internacional de Videopoesía, as they’re now calling it, has issued a CFW on social media for its 2025 festival, with a Google form for submissions:
Videobardo Archive and International Videopoetry Festival, founded in 1996, opens its call for submissions to be part of a new edition of the Festival, which will take place in November in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
We understand videopoetry as those audiovisual works in which poetic verbal language —whether word, letter, speech, or writing, as well as visual and/or sound signs— plays a central role or receives a special treatment. In this way, the three fundamental elements —moving image, sound, and verbal language— engage in a dialogue to create a distinct reality that constitutes the Videopoetic Work.
This links to a PDF on Google Drive for the terms and conditions. Here’s their English translation:
A. Video poems may be submitted in single-channel format.
B. It is an essential condition that the copyright and projection rights are in the name of the person presenting the work or artist’s autorization. (Productors)
C. The theme is free and there is no duration limit or realization date required.
D. Each artist can submit more than one work if they wish.
E. Each work must be submitted in this call until AUGUST 10, 2025 in the link: https://forms.gle/XejZZ7xCzorqy8yK6
F. For any work in a language other than Spanish, we request subtitles in Spanish. Subtitling may be dispensed with as long as the artist and VideoBardo consider that it does not affect the understanding of the work.
G. A selection will be made among the works received, which will be exhibited as part of the Festival programming.
H. Given the independent nature of VideoBardo, it does not have the financial means to pay fees or shipping costs to participating artists.
I. The material sent will become part of the VideoBardo archive.
J. The submission of the works implies that the artists authorize the display of fragments or images of the works in the media that VideoBardo considers pertinent during the Festival and its subsequent itinerances.
K. The copyright on the work is the exclusive property of the artist who allows VideoBardo its exhibition and dissemination.
L. The material from the VideoBardo archive cannot be copied, only consulted.
M. We are open to considering proposals within what we call “expanded” videopoetry, that is, works that include poetry in an experimental format or that are close to videopoetry including verbal language + image + sound. Examples: Videopoetic installation, poetic VJ, visual and/or sound poetry, poetic Net Art, Cinepoetry. Videoclip or Videopoetic Documentary, Videoperformance and Videodance.
N. The material sent after the closing date of the call will not be considered for the Festival 2025, however it will enter the permanent call of our VideoBardo Archive for future exhibitions.
O. The sending of the material implies the acceptance of these bases and any aspect not contemplated in these regulations will be resolved by VideoBardo.CONSULTAS / ANSWER videobardo1@gmail.com
Click through for the Spanish.
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