Call for Work: Studio 27 presents “Reinterpreting Gothic”

For the upcoming Big Muddy Film Festival at Southern Illinois University, we are curating a special out-of-competition screening on “The Gothic.” For this program, we are looking for experimental films and videos (under 30 minutes) that explore the gothic in innovative ways. This would include any work that deals with such issues as: death, deviance, the uncanny, ruins, fragmented bodies, the excessive, the grotesque, the abject, psychologically charged sites, the supernatural, the horrific, the macabre, and borders of sanity, propriety, or reality. We are especially interested in projects that use the gothic to explore social issues, identity, or that draw attention to the intersections between the gothic and other genres.

Please send us a prescreening copy of your work on playable DVD (or provide us a URL where we can stream or download a high quality preview). All submissions must include a brief project synopsis, artist statement, and contact information (email address, phone number). Address your submission to:

Wago Kreider, Radio-TV Dept.
Southern Illinois University
1100 Lincoln Drive
Carbondale, Il 62901

Deadline for receipt of submissions is January 26th, 2011
For more information contact us at: jessicaallee@studio27.org