Fourth

Edition of "Contro-Sguardi: International Anthropological Film Festival " Theme of the year 2012: "For a culture of a Work" Perugia (Italy), April 2012

CALL FOR VIDEO, PHOTOS, SOUNDS AND PERFORMANCE

(Deadline: 20 February 2012)

The Ass. Contro-Sguardi, in collaboration with the Anthropological Section of the Department Man and Environment (Uomo e Territorio) of the University of Perugia (Italy), the city council of Perugia, Informagiovani and the cultural association Macadam, promotes the fourth edition of Contro-Sguardi: International Anthropological Film Festival. Theme of the year 2012: For a culture of work. With this call we would like to solicitate the submission of documentary films, fictions, ethnographic, photographic exhibitions, and proposals for theatrical and musical performances related to the topic in question. Since 2010 the festival, founded to bring together works of anthropological cinema, is open to diverse forms of visual representations. Since last year the festival became biennial, and each edition will concentrate on a specific thematic topic related to socio-cultural dynamics and contemporary societies. Contro-Sguardi 2012 proposes several kind of differently structured workshops and debate sessions on a broad range of topics related to the culture of work. The aim of this theme is to reflect on the crisis of current economic and social models which progressively shrink the spaces of work, especially of young people, with many repercussions for personal and social life. Specifically, with Culture of Work we mean the multiplicity of social contexts, anthropological, economic, political and emotional that define work as a practice, knowledge, existential status of the human being through it is realized and for self-determination. The call here proposed intends to gather materials and experiences, both at a national and international level, and addresses the issue in its broader facets and issues: the relationship health/disease, socio-economic inequalities, the protests for the place of work in a precarious world, and including the political uses of music, theatre and cinema. Through the presentation of the materials, try to create a space of comparison beetwen different actors involved in the field of work, such as associations and civil society, political institutions, academia and research, the virtuous that despite a strong crisis manage to maintain a standards positive of production, or that, bucking, create employment by investing in cutting-edge work patterns. In the awareness of social research, which increasingly requires a dialogical and experimental comparison with new techniques and technologies with their visual productions, opens a Call for video aimed at filmmakers, students, researchers and teachers. The purpose of a dialogue that would take account of the complexity of the issues and research contexts, as well the plurality of production techniques, will be accepted ethnographic character material, documentary, fiction and animation. The selection of work will be based on the quality of content, methodological innovation and relevance to topics socioanthropological interest. The video participants at the event will be divided into two categories 1) Competition divided into Documentary and Fiction; 2) Festival, which will make the text of the regulation Contro-Sguardi festival 2012. A short list of films selected for the Festival do Filme Etnografico do Recife 2012 to be held in Recife in Brazil and Contro-Sguardi is twinned.

Call for photo, sounds and performance

In addition to the videos, we solicit proposals for photo exhibitions, sounds and performance. Ethnographic photos and exhibitions, in relation to different themes, will be exhibited in personal or group exhibition, during the festival in appropriate spaces. The term sounds and performance refers to audio recordings of various kinds, organic to ethnographic research, and musical and theatrical proposals which are in a critical perspective and reflective the culture of work.

How to participate
All entries must arrive no later than 20th February (postmark stamps) and must be in the DVD-PAL format (cd picture and sound) accompanied by a written permission for the screening and the completed registration form. The materials must be sent to: Contro-Sguardi c/o Sezione Antropologica del Dipartimento Uomo & Territorio Piazza Morlacchi , 30 06123 Perugia (PG) ITALY A copy of the entry form can also be sent by mail to controsguardi@gmail.com within 5 days after the deadline. By March 5, 20102 the organization committee will communicate the participants of the accepted video, pictures and sounds selected for the festival.
Info: www.controsguardi.com ; controsguardi.blogspot.com ; controsguardi@gmail.com ; controsguardi.press@gmail.com Entry form: http://www.controsguardi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Entry-form-Contro-Sguardi-Festival-2012.doc Regulation: http://www.controsguardi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Regulations-Contro-Sguardi-festival-2012-eng.pdf

Presentation Association Contro-Sguardi

Contro-Sguardi Piazza Morlacchi n. 30 06123 Perugia 0039 3471000854 0039 3334717436 controsguardi@gmail.com www.controsguardi.com controsguardi.blogspot.com Officially formed February 21, 2010 by five founding members, the Association was established to protect and promote the culture and art with a particular attention to demo-ethno-anthropological heritage. Constituted by university researchers, students and videomakers, Contro-Sguardi promotes its goals through the organization's annual of the International Festival of Documentary Films Contro-Sguardi and other cultural events such as exhibitions, concerts, conventions, with a particular focus on relevant issues in the contemporary world as migration, conflict, health and work. The Association pursues its aims in cooperation with different associations and national and international bodies including: the city council of Perugia, the Province of Perugia, the University of Perugia, the School in Heritage conservation on demo-ethno-anthropological of Castiglion del Lago (PG), Ass. Cultural Macadam, the audio/visual lab. L.I.S.A. of So Paulo (Brazil), the Festival do Filme Etnografico do Recife (Brazil), the Adivasi Art Trust, London (England\India), the University of Muenster (Germany) and others. Addressing a diverse audience and identified on the basis of individual initiatives, Contro-Sguardi offers, initiatives to training through workshops and labs to promote the development of music, literature, film and visual arts with specific attention to the cultural diversity that characterize our contemporaneity.

TITLE: Contro-Sguardi Festival 2012. Culture, Work, Multimedia PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The project aims to build and promote the fourth edition of Contro-Sguardi Festival (formerly International Festival of Anthropological Cinema) this year dedicated to the theme of work which will last for three days and take place in the municipality of Perugia at the end of April 2012. In a historical moment when the right and the very essence of work seem to be reformulated contradictorily, or even questioned by a global economic crisis, debate, analyze and promote a Culture of Work becomes indispensable and urgent action. From this perspective, the overall goal of Contro-Sguardi 2012 is to browse with a critical look at the multiplicity of social, economic, cultural, political and emotional that define the extent of work practices, knowledge, existential states contested between exploitation and creation, between stillness and transformation between the limits and possibilities. In continuity with previous editions (see attached programme), the specific objective of Contro-Sguardi 2012 is to offer at the citizenship, through visual tools (documentaries, photographic exhibitions, video art), moments of encounter (debates, concerts, presentations of books, theme dinners) and multimedia proposal spaces built on the basis of contemporary production techniques, the occasion of a reflection and a focus on a wide range of phenomena that characterize our contemporary world, the world of work locally and globally. Health and work, art and work, gender and work, new migrations, environmental issues, the new social conflicts and the new possibilities that characterise the world of work, are some of the topics of a confrontation with national and international experts, which will involve different institutional actors, academics, trade unions, associations, local entrepreneurs and civil society.

ORGANIZATION
The festival will be organized on three levels defined in accordance to specific objectives and dissemination that will be pursued in an intersected. The first level, intended for deepening, provides the organization of debates on diverse topics and the projection of film on the topic of work selected by a Committee of experts, from a call for video spread four months earlier at the international level. To stimulate a proposal for quality and testing, the best videos will receive prizes aimed at encouraging new productions. The second level, for the dissemination, will aim to present the theme of the work in ways that encourage a wide involvement of civil society. It will include the organization of artistic events (music, theatre, exhibitions, multimedia installations and video art), film screenings identified in large distribution circuits of the documentary, and the participation of national and international guests. The third level is dedicated to new media aims to promote the most innovative media forms to work in the audiovisual field. During the three days of the festival will be proposed multimedia installations of various kinds and meeting times will be organised with experts in the field.

Programming
Although the festival both at design time, is possible locate the four central points on which you build programming. 1) 2) Anthropological Film Festival. During the three-day event scheduled for the selected films will be projected through the call for videos that will have as theme the "work" in all its possible variations. During the screenings will be attending the filmmakers and the last day of the event will be the award ceremony of the best movies. Thematic meetings. During the days of the festival will be organized public meetings related to specific aspects of work such as: health and work, gender and work, work and art, multimedia and work; political\entrepreneurship and work. During each day will be arranged on a differentiated basis discussions with experts, educational and entertainment moments related to the themes in question. Exhibitions and installations. Per la durata della manifestazione saranno organizzate mostre fotografiche, istallazioni video e multimediali riguardanti specificatamente il tema del lavoro o temi ad esso legati. Saranno presenti, inoltre, stand di case editrici, di produzione video e multimediale. Music\Theatre. The event will feature a theatrical opening and a closing concert. All festival events are free.

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