OPEN CALL: “Between a Frame and a Soft Place”
Curated by Michèle St. Michel with Guest Deep Reader Curator Ari-Duong Nguyen
Exhibition & Screening: April 11–17, 2025 at Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Submission Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025 at 5pm
Notifications: March 14, 2025
Link to submit: https://forms.gle/1fmUkyS1jbdp2Ne36
Now Accepting Proposals:
Short Film & Video Art (Up to 13 min)
Installation, Wall-mounted Visual Work, Sculptural Work
Sound / Performance (Live or pre-recorded)
Zine Contributions (poetry, prose, artwork)
Join members of the London-based Digital Bodies Collective and other New York-based artists for a group exhibition featuring short films, performances, sculptural installations, and a special zine release. "Between a Frame and a Soft Place" is a group exhibition of time-based works, performance, and immersive installations that meditate on the concept of the digital body, and how it moves, morphs, and manifests in both tangible and intangible realms. The exhibition bridges film screenings, gallery installation, experimental publishing, and performance, inviting visitors into the cracks where spillage and glitching of physical and digital realities can be glimpsed.
Through this hybrid format, the show examines how technology reconfigures identity and presence, prompting us to consider where the human ends and the digital body begins. In this liminal space, the body becomes an evolving assemblage, shaped by ecology, power structures, and the screens we inhabit.
Seeking submissions that explore:
Embodiment & identity: How digital interfaces reconfigure our sense of self
Techno [trans]formations: Emerging tech reshaping human interaction
Memoria & myth-making: Personal or collective narratives in a screen-saturated age
The spectral & sensory: Immersive or experimental works that blur the line between data and flesh
Link to submit: https://forms.gle/1fmUkyS1jbdp2Ne36
About
For over fifty years, Millennium Film Workshop has served as a world renowned center for independent experimental film production and exhibition.
Michèle Saint-Michel is a filmmaker, curator, and poet based in Brooklyn, NY. She works around issues of power, feminist ecologies, and somatic memory. Her latest co-curated event was a sold-out screening in NYC, featuring 65 local and international filmmakers. Letters of Intent (LOI) available for international artists. All encouraged to apply.
Key Dates
Submission Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025 at 5pm
Notification of Acceptance: March 14, 2025
PV, Opening & Main Screening: Friday, April 11, 2025 at 8pm
Sound / Performance Events: Saturday, April 12 - April 17, 2025
Zine Release & Reading Event: Sunday, April 13, 2025
Gallery Exhibition: April 11–17, 2025
Deinstall: April 18, 2025
Link to submit: https://forms.gle/1fmUkyS1jbdp2Ne36
