Open Call for SMCK ON REEL. Civilization Rebooted

If our civilization perishes, or dies in a nuclear accident or war, how will it re-emerge?

SMCK ON REEL 2023 // Civilization Rebooted addresses artists, designers, crafters, curators, educators, gallerists, and art professionals, working in the field of jewellery, object, wearable art and crafts, to treat through the medium video topics such as climate change, environmental catastrophe, war, fear, death, rebirth, renaissance, recycling, new values, and new aesthetics. There is room for vision, initiative, and hope before the catastrophe, offering a challenge for artists and designers to influence -through their struggle for harmony and beauty- the minds and hearts of people committed to peace.

SMCK ON REEL 2023 // Civilization Rebooted videos will be screened from Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 March 2023 at Weltraum, a multi-awarded art gallery, and at Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein in downtown Munich.

Reels -the art of the moving image- deploy the artist’s narrative and enable the public to understand better the maker’s background, work and message. More than eighty-five international jewellery artists, designers, art institutions, and collectives participated in SMCK ON REEL 2022 which took place in Munich, Vilnius, Bucharest, Leipzig, Hamburg, and Kyiv.

SMCK ON REEL 2023 is scheduled to be screened in Munich Schmuck 2023, Legnica Silver Festival 2023 (Poland), Romanian Jewelry Week Bucharest etc... The video festival is curated by SMCK Magazine.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

1st CATEGORY: ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, CRAFTERS
Choose from three different options:

1. Submit a video you made in the last three years, along with a short biography and weblink(s).
Participation fee: 160,00 euros (payable in two instalments).

OR

2. Submit your concept along with a short biography and weblink. Attend a two-day group workshop (11 and 12 February 2023) that will give you a lot of inspiration and technical advice on how to make your own professional video easily and without special equipment. Shoot your video and send it to us ready to be screened.
Participation fee: 250,00 euros (payable in two instalments).

OR

3. Submit your concept along with a short biography and weblink. Attend three customized, individual meetings that will coach you to realize your idea and shoot your video, and also participate in the group workshop (11 and 12 February 2023). Shoot your video and send it to us ready to be screened. A one-page presentation of your video and jewellery project in SMCK Magazine March 2023 issue is included in the fee. Participation fee: 320,00 euros (payable in three instalments).


2nd CATEGORY: INSTITUTIONS, GALLERIES, ART & DESIGN SCHOOLS
Choose from two different options:

1. Submit a video you made in the last three years, along with a web link. Participation fee: 190,00 euros (payable in two instalments).

OR

2. Submit your concept. Attend three customized, individual meetings that will assist you to realize your idea and shoot your video. Shoot your video and send it to us ready to be screened. A one-page presentation of your video project in SMCK Magazine March 2023 issue is included in the fee. Participation fee: 390,00 euros (payable in three instalments).


VIDEO REQUIREMENTS:
• The video should be in one of the following file formats: mp4, mpeg4, m4v, mov. 
• A video length of a minimum of 30 seconds and max. 3.5 minutes is recommended. However, longer videos are also accepted if the story/intensity/quality of the movie requires more time. 
• Your video should not include unauthorized material from film or music that may violate copyright. Videos showing hate speech, extreme provocation, or prohibited symbols will not be accepted for presentation. 


APPLICATION:
Send your application until 31 January 2023 to magazine@smck.org
No application fee is charged.


LINKS:
Interview by Romanian Jewelry Week
Solidarity. Leipzig, Kyiv, Vilnius
Romanian Jewelry Week special SMCK On Reel
SMCK On Reel at Grassimesse Leipzig