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Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 16:23:15 +0700
Subject: [Artabase.earth] [OPEN CALL] OK Video COMEDY
Open Submission!
Deadline: May 31, 2009

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

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 21 830 4220

*– Please participate by sending your works to us or forwarding this
message to your friends –

*OK. Video – Jakarta International Video Festival *is a biannual video
festival held since 2003. 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. OK. Video 2003
was showcasing the latest development in international video arts whereas
the raised theme in the second festival (2005) was *Sub-Version*. In the
third festival (2007), the theme was *Militia* where we conduct video
workshop in 12 Indonesian cities and video screening in Jakarta public
spaces.

Further information, please contact: info@okvideofestival.org