Now accepting entries for Antimatter 2009

Early Deadline: April 17, 2009 | Final Deadline: June 5, 2009

Two Week's Grace for Late Entries: the final deadline has passed but we're giving it a couple more weeks, so get those last-minute submissions in!

Dedicated to the exhibition and nurturing of film and video as art, Antimatter has grown into the premier showcase of experimental cinema in the west. Encompassing screenings, installations, performances and media hybrids, Antimatter provides a noncompetitive festival setting in Victoria, British Columbia, free from commercial and industry agendas.

The highest standards of curatorial practice are employed to build thematic programs of innovative film and video selected from international submissions. In addition, our annual Foreign Matter series has become the incubator for hundreds of short films, all new to North American audiences, compiled and contextualized by international curators. Reciprocally, Antimatter delivers curated programs of new Canadian work to international audiences through our Foreign Matter tours.

Since 1998, the quality and creativity of its programming, commitment to audience development, and respect for filmmakers and their work have made Antimatter one of the most important media arts events in Canada, and the world.

Initiated in 2000, Foreign Matter is an international curatorial series screened as part of the festival. Antimatter works with selected curators, cooperatives and other festivals to assemble programs of film and video from specific countries or regions.

Past Foreign Matter programs have represented the United Kingdom, Czech and Slovak Republics, Latin America, Russia, New Zealand, Colombia, Australia, Mexico, Singapore, Philippines, Austria, Germany, Hong Kong, Belgium, France, Iceland, Brazil, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands. See Archives for details.

Other special curated programs have included Small Gauge Wonder (Canada), Ins8tiable (USA/Canada), Glitch This! Splice That! (Quebec), Soft Science (USA/Canada), A Micro-Lab Exchange (France/Canada/USA), The Psychoacoustic Geographers (USA), Images in Back of the Head (Quebec), Lunchfilm and Xperimental Eros.

We invite proposals from qualified curators, programmers, cooperatives, etc. for Foreign Matter programs and other special projects at Antimatter 2009. For more information, please contact us at info@antimatter.ws