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The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ will take place
in Paris in November 2007, at the Centre
Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and
in other key locations. The same program will be
presented in Madrid in April 2008 and in Berlin
in June 2008.
Those three events will propose an international
programming focusing on film, video and
multimedia, gathering works of artists and
filmmakers acknowledged on the international
scene along with young artists and not much
distributed filmmakers.

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ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANISATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR
SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN
TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA CYCLES, without any
restriction of length or genre. All submissions
are free, without any limitation of geographic
origin.
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CINEMA AND VIDEO CYCLES (all film and video formats)
* Video / Video art / Experimental video
* Experimental Film
* Documentary, experimental documentary
* Fiction - short, medium and feature length
* Animation movie

MULTIMEDIA CYCLES
* Installation * Net art * Performance, concert

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Video and film submissions are received on DVD.
ALL submissions are sent by postal mail, enclosed
with a filled-in ONLINE ENTRY FORM, UNTIL THE
15th of AUGUST, 2007. Entry forms and information
regarding the ‘Rencontres internationales
Paris/Berlin/Madrid’ are available on our website http://art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm
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The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ offer more than
a simple presentation of the works. They
introduce an intercultural forum gathering
various guests from all over the world - artists
and filmmakers, institutions and emerging
organisations - to testify of the vivacity of
creation and its distribution, but also of the
artistic and cultural contexts that often are
experiencing deep changes. The festival reflects
specificities and crossings of art practices
between new cinema and contemporary art, explores
media art practices and their critical purposes,
and work out this necessary time when points of
view meet and are exchanged.
The festival aims at presenting those works to a
broad audience, at creating circulations between
different art practices and between different
audiences, as well as creating new exchanges
between artists, filmmakers and professionals.
The ‘Rencontres Internationales
Paris/Berlin/Madrid’, an event without
competition, are supported by French, German,
Spanish and international cultural institutions. http://art-action.org/en_soutien.htm
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SPREAD OUT THIS PIECE OF
INFORMATION to creative organizations, art
networks, production companies, artists and
filmmakers you are in contact with.

Best wishes.
The Rencontres Internationales

2007 ANAT Emerging Technologies Mentorship

ANAT is offering the opportunity for young and emerging practitioners
working with distributed, portable, online, wearable, gaming, mobile
and emerging platforms to undertake a three-month mentorship with an
established practitioner of their choice.

The mentorship enables an emerging artist to explore new creative
directions, to expand technical skills and increase knowledge of
networks, debates and business practice. Applicants are invited to
select a mentor and develop a program of activity spanning a
three-month period. By utilising emerging technologies the mentor may
be accessed locally, nationally or internationally and the successful
applicant will maintain a blog for the duration of the mentorship on
the ANAT server.

Applicants must be emerging technologies practitioners who are 30 years
or under. The mentorship will provide a fee for the mentoree ($7,200
excl GST) and a fee for the mentor ($1,800 excl GST). The mentorship
program should be completed by early December 2007.

ANAT APPLICATIONS CLOSE 3 AUGUST 2007
ANAT guidelines and application
forms are available on our web site  http://www.anat.org.au. For
further information please contact Gavin Artz, ANAT General Manager -
 manager at anat.org.au, 08 8231 9037, Monday - Friday, 10am - 4pm CST.

This mentorship is a part of the Australian Government’s Young &
Emerging Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, its arts
funding and advisory body. Australian Media Arts Organsiations d.lux,
Experimenta and MAAP are also offering mentorships:

+ d.lux will hold their mentorship inside Second Life or a similar
online virtual community, contact  malcolm at dlux.org.au for more
information.
+ Experimenta’s focus is on Site Related and/or Public
Work, contact  kentia at expeirmenta.org for more information.
+ MAAP will focus on projects that intersect or consider connections with the Asia
Pacific regions, contact  info at maap.org.au for more information.

ANAT gratefully acknowledges the assistance of CraftSouth in
establishing the ANAT Emerging Technologies Mentorship Program.