05 May OPPORTUNITY ALERT! CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — CITY AIN’T LOUD ENOUGH: Local Shorts Live Scored @ Tiny Room for Elephants 2022
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
cinéSPEAK is delighted to partner with TINY ROOM FOR ELEPHANTS on their upcoming 2022 festival at Cherry Street Pier!
As such, we are announcing a call for short films and DJs/musician/composers that are open to remixing and live-scoring their films for a live audience. Ideally, the filmmaker/composer pair should be familiar with each other’s work, with a previous collaboratorship under their belt.
Thematically, we’re looking for films that move like visual poems, films that carry the heartbeats of their respective cities, places, and spaces in addition to characters. You know that feeling when it’s just you peddling on the bike, big city around you? Or you and the other person feel like there’s nothing else in the world, big city around you? Or a retreat into the woods, by the rivers, big city around you? CITY AIN’T LOUD ENOUGH is a love letter to our favorite alleyways, corners, and the people we are on them.
CURATOR STATEMENT
‘I’m a jawn through and through, Philly native, 215 youngboul inspired by the language, shapes, sights, and sounds that course through me and are a part of me because of where I grew up, what grew me up, what I grew up. Planted, we are, in one city, small town, or another; specifically we are to the lands we might call home or we might call a friend. I’m inspired by the way places shape us and how we in turn shape them. In 1974 James Baldwin, in a prelude to his novel If Beale Street Could Talk, remarked:
“Every Black person born in America was born on Beale Street, born in the Black neighborhood of some American city, whether in Jackson, Mississippi, or in Harlem, New York. Beale Street is our legacy.”
So, I’m thinking about the blues as not just the songs that we sing, but as the lives that we live — and as time changes how the things we think we know change with us, and are remixed into everything we might need to become. This collaboration with TINY ROOM FOR ELEPHANTS celebrates the joy of remixing, a hip-hop technology that says I am from that place and I can also build myself another one —while honoring where I come from. From Philly, to Detroit, to Georgia, to Mississippi, to Oakland, to Bahia, to Accra. Here’s your chance: to make the city loud, with your own music.’
—Vernon Jordan III, Assistant Direction of Programs, cinéSPEAK
IMPORTANT INFO
—ARTISTS MUST BE PHILADELPHIA-BASED—To the Front: Black, brown, Indigenous, queer, women or non-binary identifying artists
—FILMS / PERFORMANCE MUST BE < 11 MIN IN LENGTH
—THIS OPPORTUNITY IS PAID. We are offering $600 per project. This fee can be paid out (split or whole) as the collaborative team outlines.
—DEADLINE TO APPLY: 11:59PM on Sunday June 5th
—NOTICES GO OUT: Tuesday June 14th
VENUE INFO
Cherry Street Pier — 121 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Cherry Street Pier is a year-round, mixed-use public space on the central Delaware River waterfront. Built into the shell of a century-old municipal pier, it is a reflection of Philadelphia today—creative, diverse, historic, adaptable, and inspired. — cherrystreetpier.com
DATES OF THE ENGAGEMENT
TECH REHEARSAL: Tuesday June 28th at 5-7PM
PROGRAM DATE: Thursday July 14th – until notifications go out, we request that artists hold 5-10PM; day-of tech check 4-5:45PM; Live Event: 6-9PM (Doors @ 6PM; Films/Performances @ 7-8:30PM; Q&A with artists to-follow)
LEARN MORE + APPLY HERE
**Please Note: Both the filmmaker and musician should submit individual applications. There is an option to select ‘I am both the filmmaker and live-scoring musician’
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