We invite individuals engaged in visual art and film to participate in the open international competition being held as part of the 16th IN OUT Festival.
IN OUT Festival is a cyclical project of the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art organized since 2005. In 2024, CCA Łaźnia intends to dedicate its 16th edition to the theme of photography. The aim of this edition of the Festival is to look at what photography is for visual artists, and what video and films are for artists working with photography. How is the function of photography changing in the field impacted by new media? Does and how does photography function in juxtaposition with other media? The Festival includes an open, international competition for short experimental forms. The competition is in two stages, artists from Poland and abroad selected in the first stage are invited to the Festival in Gdańsk, and their works are presented during the reviews.
More about the IN OUT Festival in the PROJECTS tab.
Competition
Subject: photography / moving image
Deadline: June 30, 2024
The competition is in two stages: from the works submitted by June 30, 2024, a preselection jury will select 15 experimental films for the competition finals. The selected works will be shown during reviews during the festival and the finalists, will be invited to the festival in Gdańsk.
Prizes:
First prize: PLN 6,000 funded by the Marshal of Pomorskie Voivodeship.
Second prize: PLN 5,000 funded by the CCA ŁAŹNIA. Additionally, the CCA ŁAŹNIA offers a one-month residency at the CCA ŁAŹNIA in 2025.
Third prize: PLN 4,000 Professor Witoslaw Czerwonka funded by the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
In addition to the financial prizes, honorable mentions will also be awarded.
The competition is aimed at those creating in the medium, there is no age category or requirement of an artistic education background.
Duration of the film: over 1 minute, up to a maximum of 20 minutes.
Year of production: the work should not be older than 3 years.
You are more than welcome to participate!