Videostihija

About

“Videostichiya” is the most visible, largest and most consistent video poetry festival in the country, a modern and timely festival that has become traditional. The five-year history of the festival under the slogan “Make Poetry Visible” has shown the extraordinary demand for such a platform and the growing popularity of the genre of video poetry itself, which provides the opportunity for a bright and voluminous creative expression for poets, artists, directors and videographers, and simply fans of poetry and poetic cinema.”

Over the six-year history of the Videoostikhia festival, 2,000 people from hundreds of cities and villages in Russia from Crimea to the Kamchatka Territory and 17 foreign countries (India, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Israel, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Latvia, Estonia, Moldova, Poland) took part in the competition , Armenia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan). In the previous, sixth season, 444 works in the genre of video poetry (short films, animation, documentary video poetry, experimental videos, video recitation) were sent from more than 83 cities of the Russian Federation, as well as international participants from India, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Israel, Cyprus.

Awards

Winners in the main nominations receive cash prizes in the amount of 20,000 rubles, winners of audience voting - 10,000 rubles. Grand Prix - 50,000 rubles. The best videos of the competition program are included in the "golden fund" of the festival and are shown on Internet resources and projection sites under the auspices of the festival.

Rules

Main nominations of the Festival:

• "Modern poetry"

• "Classics of the genre"

• “Poetry of the Urals”

• “Russian avant-garde”

• Audience Award “Face to Face” (based on the results of focus groups, face-to-face screenings). • Audience Award “Big things can be seen from a distance” (based on the results of online voting).

• Non-competitive nomination “Image of a Poet” – documentaries about poets

1. Any Internet user aged 14 years and older can become a participant in the Festival.

2. Participation in the Festival can be either individual or collective.

3. To participate in the Festival, you must submit videos shot (created) by any available means, corresponding to the topics and nominations of the competition program.

4. Applications will be accepted until October 10, 2024.

5. The application and its annexes can only be submitted in Russian.

6. Applications are filled out on the official festival page https://www.ogbmagnitka.ru/festival-videostikhiya-2024.html or accepted by email as an attachment to a letter to videostihija@yandex.ru (topic “Videostikhiya: Festival”), video materials are accepted in the form of a link available for download on a cloud resource (for example, Yandex Disk).

 7. Requirements for the video: 1) Format – mpg.4 2) Minimum video resolution – 480x360 for 4:3, 480x272 for 16:9. 3) The maximum video length is up to 5 minutes. 4) The number of videos sent from one participant is no more than 3.

Festival participants themselves determine the genre of the video and the method of visualization of the selected poetic text.

The selected poetic text must be in Russian or with Russian subtitles based on a work by a Russian author, or a video on poems by a foreign author in a poetic translation into Russian.

Advertising videos that offend the dignity and feelings of other people, contain scenes of violence, extremist materials expressing the political views of the authors, as well as videos that do not fit into the theme of the Festival are not accepted for participation in the competition program of the Festival.

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Organizers:

Union of Russian Writers (Moscow)

Cultural Center "Vek" (Magnitogorsk)
Association of City Libraries (Magnitogorsk)

The project is being implemented with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives