Attention Video Artists – call for entries

OK. VIDEO: COMEDY
4th Jakarta International Video Festival 2009

Exhibition, workshops, discussions, and award for the best works

July 28 – August 9 2009 / National Gallery of Indonesia

Application Deadline: 31 May 2009

COMEDY is an effective way to free ourselves from anxiety. As a critique that disguise itself as a form of entertainment, comedy helps us to reflect, laugh at ourselves, protest without anger, and turn calamity into hilarity. As a way to communicate, comedy never dies and has been accompanying us since time immemorial, from the form of comedy that uses the body as a medium to one that uses the audio-visual language.

OK. Video: Comedy will look at comedy as a form of communication using the medium of video, which responds to a variety of problems in critical ways. From the problems of the city, politics, power, modernity, technology, economy, generation, gender, tradition, religion, mass media, identity, pop culture, art, daily lives, to the general election. OK. Video Festival is focused on non-narrative video works and open for reconstructions, recording manipulations, and an array of experiments of the audio-visual language. We receive video works with a variety of approaches to comedy—from jokes, parodies, to absurd, satirical, sarcastic, vulgar, as well as tragic comedy.

Video format: mini DVD, mini DV – PAL and multimedia file with the duration of 3 to 15 minutes
produced in 2007 – 2009
Deadline: May 31, 2009
Registration fee: none
Entry form can be download at: www.okvideofestival.org & www.ruangrupa.org

Send your work to:
ruangrupa
Jl. Tebet Timur Dalam Raya No. 6,
Jakarta Selatan, 12820, Indonesia.
T/F: +62 21 8304220.

OK. Video—Jakarta International Video Festival is a biannual video festival held since 2003 by ruangrupa, a contemporary art organization in Jakarta, Indonesia.

OK. Video is one of the events organized by ruangrupa to discuss the social and cultural phenomena in Indonesia and the international world within a festival with a specific theme.