Videominuto Pop TV

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About Videominuto Pop TV

1000 EURO for 1 MINUTE

The radio station Controradio, the cultural association GRAV, the Luigi Pecci Center of Contemporary Art , in collaboration with the City of Prato and township of Prato, announce the 2005 selection of video works with a maximum length of one minute including the production credits. The selection is open to all original, synthetical, quick, totally free in form and language and without any form of censorship. The works entered for consideration will be selected by a jury of experts and professionals in the sector to define the participation list. All decisions are final.

Attention: For television broadcasts or DVD publication (but not necessarily to partecipate in this competition) the video works must contain original music. Videominuto will post on their web site a series of original musical soundtracks for participant use free of charge.
Who wants to partecipate only in our competition "1.000 Euro for 1 Minute" is free to use also non original music.

The deadline for video submission is 30th of June 2006!

The screening of the selected works will take place at The Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Arts in Prato, Italy, on the 9th of September 2006. The video first prize winner will receive a money prize of € 1000,00 . The participating videos will receive exposure in the national press, television stations and other partner video festivals. The other awards will be defined at a later date.

1. Videominuto: What Is It?

Videominuto is an international exhibition of videos not longer than 1 minute in duration (titles included), organized by a pool of structures coordinated by The Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Arts, the Cultural affairs Commissioner for the Province of Prato, Controradio, the Gruppo di Ricerca Arti Visive, V-xual and other important partners.
Starting point for the festival is the desire to enquire into how brevity of format, as the only binding condition imposed upon the author(s), influences video-work in terms of impact, stylistical choices and content.
Videominuto offers 60" to the author(s), open to all types of subject matter, clearly favouring synthesis as expressive form, free and open to themes ranging from social document(ary) to newsitem, from videoart to electronics, from trash to splatter to the purely experimental.

2.Vision: All In A Minute

Time is running short, especially on video. On our screens, the unstoppable visual wave accompanying us becomes ever more rapid and sweeping. One has got to be quick, to the point, effective. 60" can do. To say things, expose ideas, hypothesize viewpoints, to understands facts...
International video production is progressively becoming more kaleidoscopic: accepting the blandishments of TV, experimenting linguistic contaminations, mingling with ever more radical and available technologies.
Videominuto too, undergoes evident and necessary mutations, in order to render the chaotic and multifaceted fragmentariety that our daily aesthetic horizon has become. A sort of Tv, real and visionary, decidedly pop, made by curious and sharp operators, ready to catch the passing feeling and process video-postcards, notes and sketches for forthcoming documentaries, aphorisms, philosophical notations, short cuts, documents in pills, deviant ads, narrative hypothesis... All in 1 minute.


3.Showcases: International collaborations

Videominuto exports the idea of the fateful 60" abroad and receives a selection of works with an international flavor. Thanks to the well-tested workshop mechanism, we have established a fruitful series of collaborations with foreign academies, arts' institutions and universities, the Sandberg Instituut of Amsterdam, Cypress College and Fullerton University in Los Angeles, resulting in a selection of the best works, produced by students and presented in every edition of Videominuto (yearly at least one Intl. Showcase) in a fast and fluid editing alternating animations, visual poems and computer art. Given the big success of these initiatives, witnessed by the birth of a twin festival, De Een Minuten in Amsterdam, Videominuto has begun work to establish a network of festivals and exhibitions exchanging productions, theme sections and retrospectives in order to spur a real fruition of the best European audiovisual products.

Videominuto cos'è?

Videominuto è una rassegna internazionale di video della durata massima di 1 minuto che si svolge tutti gli anni al Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato. Il Festival è organizzato dall'emitente radiofonico toscano Controradio, dal Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci e dall' associazione culturale GRAV, in collaborazione con la Provincia e il Comune di Prato. L'idea del Festival è di indagare quanto la brevità del formato, quale unico imposto, condizioni la video opera in termini di incisività , scelte stilistiche e contenuti.

La Filosofia
Il tempo stringe, specie in video. Tocca essere rapidi, sintetici, efficaci. 60" possono bastare ad elaborare video-cartoline, appunti per lungometraggi a venire, aforismi, note filosofiche, short cuts, documenti in pillole, spot devianti, ipotesi narrative Tutto in 1 minuto.

Il Format
Videominuto offre agli autori 60", disponibili ai soggetti più diversi, privilegiando la sintesi come forma espressiva, libera e aperta a temi che vanno dal documento sociale all'attualità, dalla video-arte all'elettronica, alla sperimentazione pura. Il videominuto è un formato multipiattaforma: adatto per lo streaming sul web, come intermezzo nei palinsesti televisivi e nelle programmazioni dei canali digitali-satellitari. Soprattutto, il minuto in video è un formato sexy che ha fatto tendenza per la sua semplicità, la sua fattibilità (sia tecnica che economica), la sua democraticità nel permettere a chiunque di realizzare il proprio mini-film.

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