Artist Film Festival

Image based talk.

Film festivals have long become an important harbor for works of cinema made outside the frames of the commercial film industry. The number of contemporary artists who make films and equally identify themselves as filmmakers continues to grow, creating a new definition of moving image as well as challenging the very notion of film. Being extremely sensitive to those shifts, film festivals constantly expand their scope too and particularly their position towards artist films. Nowadays not only do they present them to a wider audience, but they can also support them on a full-scale basis ranging from funding to programming to distribution. How film festivals relate to filmic works of contemporary artists? Which film festivals have played a key role in making artist films part of the institutionalized film culture? And how to orbit in the film festival circuit especially if you are a young or emerging artist? 

Evgeny Gusyatinskiy is a curator and critic working in the field of film and contemporary art. Since 2011 he has been working as a programmer of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Since 2018 he has been curating film in Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.

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