BISCUIT TIN 2024 – NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

BISCUIT TIN/NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH - Submissions Wanted!

Call for Submissions! 

As a part of Biscuit Tin Moving Image Festival 2024 we have invited artists Aaron Dawson-Riley and Liberty Hodes to host NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH.

Neighbourhood Watch is a regular screening environment for video makers, originally hosted at the Newbridge Project. It provides a space for divergent video-making practices, outside of our current channels of media distribution. 

Video art struggles within online attention economies — Youtube, Vimeo, TikTok, etc. Often, the patience and suspension of judgement that most video art needs cannot be provided by these massive platforms (video art doesn’t make for good clickbait!). As such, Neighbourhood Watch offers a dedicated environment for showing, watching and discussing video art, affording levels of engagement that aren’t currently offered by like-driven social media.

Neighbourhood Watch will take place on 7/12/24 at EMBASSY. 

This will be an opportunity to show digital moving-image works of all kinds, whether that be computer animation, documentary, abstract video or anything in between. All types of video art are welcome, from lo-res clips filmed on your phone to more ‘produced’ hi-res works. Similarly, it’s a space open to all artists, whether they work exclusively in video or not, and anyone interested in viewing contemporary moving-image works.

Anyone is welcome to share work of up to 10 minutes or come, view and offer feedback. Participants can show clips, excerpts, sketches, half-finished things or fully realised pieces- with an opportunity to briefly say what kind of feedback they’re hoping to get. After showing each work, there will be a moment for others to respond and offer their thoughts. It’s also fine to show something and not talk about it too. This will be a space for all kinds of feedback, allowing for both casual discussion and critical engagement – whatever you want to get out of it.

There will be a digital projector, computer and speakers set up.

You can bring along a USB on the day, though it is preferred that films are shared in advance, preferably by a pre-existing link (youtube or vimeo for example) 

Please email these to: neighbourhoodwatchnb@gmail.com by Midnight, 4th of December. 

Can’t make the date?? Don’t worry! NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH will be a regular MONTHLY event at EMBASSY starting from January! So see you then!