The One Minutes Foundation: Awards 2011

Call for entries
Deadline: December 15, 2010

The One Minutes (TOM) is a brand name for moving images that last exactly one minute. It fits well in our world of looking quickly, understanding immediately and it is a response to the influence of commercials, video clips and the increased affordability of camera’s, computers and access to Internet. The limited time frame forces the maker to think critically about what he/she would like to show us. The flexibility of the formula and the diversity of dissemination from the street to galleries, TV and festivals make it an attractive and accessible contemporary art form for a broad audience.

Since 2000 The One Minutes organizes an annual competition for the best one minutes videos. Since 2006, as the TOM Center for Slovenia SCCA-Ljubljana promotes and stimulates the production of one-minute videos from Slovenia as well as encourages the artists to participate at yearly international festival and exhibition.

The One Minutes Foundation: Awards 2011

For 2011 TOM annual awards are connected to the launch of The One Minutes Magazine, series of One Minute video art to which a selective group of podia can subscribe. It will appear on a monthly basis.

Series for which you can submit entries are:

• video performance
• cut and paste
• fairground attraction
• mini road movie
• micro commercial
• a small history

Per category 6 videos will be nominated for the Tommy Awards plus cash prize. From each category a larger selection of 24 videos will be used as a series for our new one minutes magazine to which a selective group of podia can subscribe. The annual awards night in February 2011 will also mark the launch of this new video art magazine.

All submitted videos will be part of the annual award competition regardless which entry form you use.

Before you fill in one of entry forms, please pay attention to the technical requirements:

• All entries must be of broadcast quality.
• Please use 16:9 HD format. Export your movie as Quicktime or .avi at 720x576 pixels with dv-pal compressor, anamorphic, 25 frames per second and 48kHz sound.
• Burn this dv-file on a data-cd or dvd and send it to:

The One Minutes Foundation
Fred. Roeskestraat 98, 1076 ED Amsterdam
The Netherlands
info@theoneminutes.org

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[Published June 18, 2010]