<videovortex> Fwd: Documentary project Open Call

[Natalie Bookchin]

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> From: diego gutierrez <eldespacho at gmail.com>
> Date: July 17, 2009 3:03:16 AM PDT
> To: diego gutierrez <info at eldespacho.org>, lindabannink at gmail.com
> Subject: Documentary project Open Call
>
> Dear friends,
>
> May this email find you well. I'm sending you this collective letter  
> to inform you about the latest project we are working on. It's a  
> collective documentary project involving people from the visual arts  
> and the humanities from The Netherlands, Mexico and Morocco. If the  
> project interests you and you live in The Netherlands, Mexico or  
> Morocco, we would be more than happy to receive your application.  
> And/or if you know someone living on one of the three involved  
> countries that could be interested in applying, please forward them  
> this email.
>
> Thanks and greetings,
>
> Diego Gutierrez
> www.eldespacho.org
>
> MEXICO-THE NETHERLANDS-MOROCCO
> GRANTS FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS OF THE
> VISUAL ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
>
> el despacho
> el despacho, an artist initiative based in Mexico City interested in  
> relating visual artists with alternative video-documentary making is  
> looking for students and professionals of the visual arts and the  
> humanities interested in participating the documentary-project:
>
>
> “Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner”
>
>
> Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner is a video-documentary collaborative  
> project between students and professionals of the visual arts and  
> the humanities from Mexico, The Netherlands and Morocco through  
> which a three-in-one feature length documentary around the issues of  
> the three diary meals will be made: Breakfast in Mexico, Lunch in  
> Morocco and Dinner in The Netherlands. Such film will be elaborated  
> through three workshops (each one three to four-weeks long) in  
> Mexico, The Netherlands and Morocco.
> The workshops participants will come into contact with divers  
> individuals and communities of the three involved countries and will  
> put into action and reformulate collectively their knowledge in  
> order to create a series of audio-visual tools that will help to  
> “portray” a series of events, individuals and communities. The  
> workshops will be coordinated by visual artists and filmmakers that  
> have previously collaborated with el despacho.
>
> Each workshop will be conformed of 12 participants. el despacho  
> offers between eight and ten grants in each country for people  
> interested in participating in this project.
>
> Workshops dates:
> Mexico: September 2009
> Morocco: November-December 2009
> The Netherlands: January 2010
>
>
> At the end of each workshop, two local participants will be selected  
> and will travel and participate in one of the other workshops in the  
> other countries: two Mexican workshop participants will travel and  
> participate in the Morocco workshop, two Moroccan workshop  
> participants and two Mexican workshop participants will travel and  
> participate in the Netherlands workshop and the two Dutch workshop  
> participants will travel to Morocco or Mexico in a later stage of  
> the project. Traveling, living costs as well as materials and  
> equipment will be provided by el despacho.
>
>
> Requirements:
> -Information of the candidate (applicant): Name, Curriculum Vitae,  
> address, telephone and email address.
> -To be a student or professional of the visual arts and/or the  
> humanities.
> -To live in one of the three countries involved in the project.
> -To be interested in working in collaboration.
> -To be interested in experimental video-documentary.
> -Motivation letter.
> Why are you interested in participating in this workshop? What do  
> you think this experience can bring/give you and how can you  
> contribute to this project and its people/participants?
> -A written documentary proposal: an approach, a documentation upon a  
> situation/history/life in some neighborhood, corner, café, office,  
> house, etc. of the city where you live. How to explore the social  
> networks and to enter into personal communication with “the other”,  
> “the portrayed one”? (This proposal is not necessarily meant to be  
> realized during the workshop. It´s just a written exercise in order  
> to get to know better the ideas and skills of the candidate)
> -Documentation of the candidate’s work. (photos, videos, writings  
> that can show the interests of the candidate in the area of the  
> visual arts and/or the humanities).
> -To have time to participate full time in the three weeks workshop  
> in the city of residence of the candidate.
> -To participate in the workshop abroad, it is important that the  
> candidates speak:
> for Mexico: Spanish or English
> for Morocco: Arabic, Amazigh. French or English
> for The Netherlands: Dutch or English
>
>
> Deadline: The applications should be send before AUGUST 15th 2009 to:
>
>
> info at eldespacho.org
>
> and a copy to
>
> objectsarecloser at hotmail.com
>
>
> MORE INFORMATION AT: www.eldespacho.org
>
>
>
> This project has the support of:
>
> Artscollaboratory
>
> Mondriaan Stichting
>
> FONCA-CONACULTA
>
> SMART Project Space
>
>
> Participating institutions: Escuela de Pintura, Grabado y Escultura  
> La Esmeralda-México DF, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, UACM-México  
> DF, UAEM-Cuernavaca, Morelos, El Pochote, IAGO-Oaxaca, Oaxaca,  
> Institute National des Beaux Arts de Tetouan-Morocco, Rijksakademie  
> van Beeldende Kunsten-Amsterdam, European Exchange Academy-NL and  
> SMART Project Space
>
>
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