Call for Video Entries: "In the Still Epiphany" Shorts

Call for Video Entries: "In the Still Epiphany" Shorts

Cinema St. Louis and The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts invite St. Louis-area filmmakers to project their imaginations on the Pulitzer’s world-renowned building by creating short silent films that reflect key elements (domestic spaces and/or moments of epiphany) of the In the Still Epiphany exhibit.

In conjunction with the current exhibition In the Still Epiphany, on view until October 27, the Pulitzer will host an event that showcases videos by local filmmakers. These shorts will be projected on several exterior surfaces at the Pulitzer on Friday, September 21, at 8 p.m.

One of the works – chosen by Tamara H. Schenkenberg, the Pulitzer’s Assistant Curator for Special Projects – will be specially highlighted at the event, and the filmmaker will receive a prize of $500. This winning film will screen with Theodor Dreyer’s “Ordet,” which was selected by Gedi Sibony, curator of In the Still Epiphany. Beginning around 9 p.m., the winning short and “Ordet” will be projected across the Pulitzer’s shared courtyard onto the wall of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Cinema St. Louis will also consider shorts entered in the competition for inclusion in the St. Louis International Film Festival, held from November 8-18, 2012.

In the Still Epiphany
April 5–October 27, 2012
In celebration of its tenth anniversary year, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents the exhibition In the Still Epiphany. Artist Gedi Sibony has created a large-scale, temporary work of art composed of forty-four objects from the collection of Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. – including works by John Singer Sargent, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Lucia Moholy, and Lucio Fontana. Sibony has arranged these predominately figurative works within the spaces of Tadao Ando’s building to create a flow of experience that is involving, meditative, and surprising. Modern and contemporary European and American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper – many of them chosen for their depiction of domestic interiors and the figures that inhabit them – are combined with African, Asian, and South American ritual and decorative objects. These groupings resonate within the galleries of the Pulitzer building to impart a distinct character to each space and to offer the visitor a journey through the activity of life as depicted in the frozen moments captured by the works themselves. In the Still Epiphany bookends the Pulitzer’s first exhibition, presented in 2001-2002, which also drew exclusively from the collection of Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

Submission info and form available here.