The call for artworks for the seventh edition of the Milan Machinima Festival, which will take place in Milan, Italy between March 11-17 2024, is now closed. Thank you for participating!
Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the practice of appropriating, repurposing, and remixing video games are encouraged to send us their work for consideration. All submissions will be judged by an international panel of jurors comprising scholars, curators, and critics. A Critics’ Award will be awarded to the most groundbreaking work.
Screenings of selected machinima will be curated around different themes and presented in various sections. The most interesting submissions are those which seek to capture or highlight a specific facet of contemporary life, from politics to art, from violence to creativity, from technology to ideology, through the aesthetic lenses of digital gaming.
The deadline for submissions is December 30, 2023
The full program will be announced in February 2024
Please read carefully our submission guidelines and requirements below before applying.
INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL FOR NEW MEDIA ARTWORKS GUIDELINES
The MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL defines machinima as any digital video made using video games technology (game engines, tools, assets such as characters, items, environments, and, obviously, video games as found footage etc.).
Submissions must feature machinima made with specifically with video games and/or video game technology: CGI only videos will not be considered. We strongly encourage candidates to review the program of the previous editions to get a better idea (see the archive section of thewebsite).
Submissions must be between 2 and 10 minutes in length. Longer or shorter submissions will not be considered for the award.
Submissions must have been produced between January 1, 2023 and December 30, 2023.
Artists and filmmakers can submit more than one machinima. However, multiple versions of the same machinima will not be considered.
Acceptable submission formats: Digital video files only.
Acceptable exhibition formats: mp4, avi, mpg, Quicktime file (ProRes 422).
The submission must include an accompanying artist statement/description of the artwork and an author biography no longer than 500 words.
All applicants must complete the official festival submission form located on filmfreeway.com
One-time, nominal submission fee: 15 euros/dollars payable via PayPal to the festival organizers. Submissions that have not been accepted will not be refunded.
Given that the MMF fully supports the fair clause doctrine when it comes to intellectual property, the applicant holds the sole responsibility of copyright clearance of any copyrighted material in the machinima. Please provide a detailed list of all the assets used, including mods in the accompanying document.
Exclusivity: If your machinima is accepted for screening during the Milan Machinima Festival, we kindly request not to present it elsewhere during the same time frame (i.e., March 11-17 2024), including personal websites, video sharing sites like Vimeo or YouTube.
Review: The MMF is under no obligation to provide comments regarding submitted machinima to any applicant.
Submission deadline: December 30, 2023
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