OPEN CALL 4 SMCK ON REEL 2023 – ROJW Special Editions

SMCK ON REEL 2023 – ROJW Special Editions:

Timisoara/ European Capital of Culture, 30 June – 2 July

Romania – Chisinau, Moldova Republic,17 – 31 August

Bucharest – 4 – 8 October 2023

This year SMCK ON REEL, the first video festival inspired by jewelry and applied art. is titled „Civilization Rebooted“. Participants are requested to elaborate their thoughts and create images based on the following question:

If our civilization perishes, or dies in a nuclear accident or war, how will it reemerge?

SMCK ON REEL 2023 – Civilization Rebooted invites artists, designers, crafters, curators, educators, gallerists and art professionals, working in the field of jewellery, object, wearable art, fashion, textile, and other forms of applied arts and crafts, to use the medium video to address topics, such as climate change, environmental catastrophe, war, fear, death, renaissance, democracy and totalitarianism, censorship and propaganda, recycling, new values and new aesthetics.

SMCK ON REEL 2023 – Civilization Rebooted videos will be screened during ROJW Special Editions in the following cities and institutions of Romania and Moldova Republic:

Timisoara – European Capital of Culture, 30 June – 2 July //

Chisinau – National Museum of History of Moldova, 17 – 31 August //

Bucharest, 4 – 8 October 2023.

SMCK ON REEL 2023 – Civilization Rebooted is curated by SMCK Magazine.

Reels – the art of the moving image – deploy the artist’s narrative and enable the public to understand better the maker’s background, work and message. Reels and Story Telling are particularly important in highlighting the meaning of the featured objects.

More than hundred international jewelry artists, designers, art institutions and collectives participated in SMCK ON REEL 2022 and 2023 (Munich, Vilnius, Bucharest, Leipzig, Hamburg, Kyiv) with short videos, works of art on their own merit.

How to participate:

1. Category: ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, CRAFTERS

Submit a video (maximum 3 minutes) you made in the last three years, along with a short biography and weblink. Participation fee: 120,00 euro (payable in one or two installments).

No application fee is charged.

Deadline to apply is Sunday 18 June 2023.

Apply to: magazine@smck.org

2. Category: INSTITUTIONS, GALLERIES, ART & DESIGN SCHOOLS

Submit a video (maximum 3 minutes) you made in the last three years, along with a weblink. Participation fee: 175,00 euro (payable in one or two installments).

No application fee is charged.

Deadline to apply is Sunday 18 June 2023.

Apply to: magazine@smck.org

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Additional services for selected artists/designers/crafters/institutions/galleries/schools:

All videos will be presented in SMCK Magazine’s website

SMCK Magazine #9 /will feature SMCK On Reel 2023 – ROJW Special Editions. The magazine comes out in October 2023.

Technical details for video submission:

1. VIDEO

Make sure that you have sent us your original video file (not only the video link).
The video file should be in the highest possible resolution (1920x1080px / 1080×1080 etc. / HD). We accept the video formats: mp4, mpeg4, m4v, mov.
Your video needs to have a title (usually at the start) and the film credits (usually at the end of the video). Film credits may contain: artist’s name, assistants, sound/music, website link…

2. STATEMENT & BIO

Please send us a short statement/text about your video with maximum 120 words.
Please also send us a (very) short bio with maximum 120 words.

3. PHOTO(S)

Send us minimum one photo / maximum up to 4 photos of your jewellery work for SMCK Magazine and the SMCK On Reel website.
The photo(s) have/has to be of good quality and in the highest possible resolution.
Along with your photo(s), please send the captions, including title, year, category (brooch, necklace, etc.) material, technique of the work – plus the name of the photographer.

Attachments smaller than 20MB can be sent directly to our e-mail: magazine@smck.org.

For files larger than 20MB, please use any file sharing service (WeTransfer etc.).

Please try to compile the requested material in one file.

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LINKS:

http://smck.org/smck-reel.html

https://klimt02.net/forum/articles/christoph-ziegler-loukia-richards-interview-rojw

https://www.romanianjewelryweek.com/smck-on-reel

Video by Video by NERINGA POŠKUTĖ-JUKUMIENĖ (Lithuania)