Festival Internacional Cámara Corporizada

About

Cámara Corporizada International Festival, the first Argentine audiovisual festival dedicated to the folkloric, popular and roots dances of the world, announces that the call for entries for its second edition is now open. Short, medium and full-length films from all over the world will be accepted, with special emphasis on those with a contemporary and innovative approach. The call is open to video dance, choreocinema, documentary, fiction, videoclip, video performance, experimental, video art, visual essay, animation and their hybridizations.

The International Festival Cámara Corporizada is a biennial artistic encounter that navigates the waters of popular, folkloric, roots and traditional dances and expressions, in their confluence with new narrative trends and audiovisual and performative representation.

CONCEPT

We think of dance and movement as an expression of cultural horizons and visions of the world embodied in the body. Lives dance in the corporeality, breaths dance, and cosmogonies dance. The Universe dances and with it we dance, in a camera. That magical and ritual act of the corporeal expression of popular culture, that spirit that moves the culture of the peoples, is projected on a screen.

Each being that dwells in the world, perceives itself as a member of space and culture. The experience is it's own and non-transferable, but it is also nurtured and shared in the territorial and symbolic belonging. For this reason, from Cámara Corporizada we navigate the deep sea of the collective, autochthonous and popular, from a personal, unique imprint, without aesthetic or narrative limits. We believe in an artistic and experimental syncretism, based on innovative and contemporary proposals from and about popular culture.

Through a diversity of genres and formats, Cámara Corporizada will recognize the different cultures of each territory, with their own identities, corporealities and spiritualities, taking into account the relationship between dance, body and camera, facing all manifestations that are equated within the folkloric, roots and popular dance of the world (and the wide range of expressions: traditional, indigenous, afro roots dances, gypsy dances, sacred, rituals, carnival dances, murgas, comparsas, masquerades, urban, etc.). We want to promote the diversity of voices, ways of doing and representations, through broad, creative, disruptive, personal and collective views.

The Festival is an initiative of the Plataforma Cámara Corporizada, a space for research, investigation, training and experimentation on video dance, especially in those dance expressions with folkloric roots and its intersection with cinema and audiovisual format. Declared of Interest by the Ministry of Culture of Argentina in 2021. It is part of the Circuito Argentino de Videodanza - CAV (Argentine Videodance Circuit) and the Red Iberoamericana de Videodanza - REDIV (Iberoamerican Videodance Network).

Awards

-International Competition

-National Competition

-Docudanza Competition

Rules

National and international works of video dance, documentary, fiction, video clip, video performance, experimental, video art, visual essay, animation and its hybridizations, in short, medium and feature film format, are eligible to participate. We will especially consider those works with a special sound treatment.

The call for entries will be open until February 28, 2023, exclusively through the FilmFreeway platform. The Cámara Corporizada International Festival will take place from June 21 to 25, 2023, virtually through streaming platforms such as OctubreTV and face-to-face in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

-The works can be performed with any capture device.
-In case of having dialogues in languages other than Spanish, we request to send the material subtitled.
-We will accept works made at any date of production, but we will prioritize those made from 2020 to date.
-Multiple entries per person or artistic collective are allowed, as long as each work is entered with its respective entry form.
-The format of the films for exhibition must be .mp4 or .mov, in high quality (Recommendation: minimum resolution HD 720p, 1280x720 pixels, maximum Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixels).

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

Participants must provide representative stills of the work to promote it in the requested fields of the entry form (Recommendation 720 high x 1280). Posters with text will not be considered for this purpose. The festival is authorized to use images, fragments and trailers for diffussion and promotion through social networks and press.

Advertising pieces or spots will not be allowed to participate in the festival.

Once selected, no film may be withdrawn from the program during the festival.

By submitting, participants declare that they hold the copyright of their works, without violating the rights of third parties, and declare to be responsible for any legal claims related to their work, releasing the festival from any claims, liabilities, damages and prejudices.

The participation in the 2nd International Festival Cámara Corporizada implies the knowledge and total acceptance of these terms and conditions. Any exception, doubt or conflict will be evaluated and resolved by the festival's organizing committee.

The registration through the following Festival platform will have the character of a sworn statement and in it you declare that you know and accept these rules and conditions.

SELECTION and AWARDS

The selection committee reserves the right to select the films to be programmed at the Festival, to place them in the sections, competitive or non-competitive, and to program them as many times as it deems appropriate.

The selected films may be viewed free of charge on the digital platforms provided for this purpose.

The selected works may be part of the Cámara Corporizada Platform and subsequently circulate through the Festivals that make up the different circuits of circulation and exhibition to which the Festival belongs, with due authorization and negotiation with their authors.

The selected works will receive the Festival's laurels.

REGISTRATION FEES

For works made in Argentine territory or by Argentineans, registration is free of charge. For works made in other countries of the Latin American and Caribbean territory, the registration fee is 5 USD. For works made in other territories, the registration fee will be 10 USD.

Any impediment to cover the registration fee may be evaluated on an exceptional basis.


SCHEDULE
Deadline for entries: Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Deadline for submission of copies for screening: April 15, 2023
Festival: June 21 to 25, 2023

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Plataforma Cámara Corporizada

Claudia Margarita Sánchez Lobo (Director)