PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS 2012 ART FESTIVAL
BOUNDARIES OF CINEMA : FUTURE FOLKLORE and THE ISLAND AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PARADIGM
call for video artists and filmmakers

Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival is celebrating an ancient tradition of the island Papa Westray, aka Papay, or Papey in Meiri, The Night of Gyros (known in other Nordic countries as Gygr, Gryla, Grylur, Grøleks, Skeklers)

Call for screen based works which are exploring Ritual and/or Island through becoming a Ritual and/or Island itselves, or created through Ritualised process, or suggesting new Rituals through various interpretations of “repetition”, “loop” and “island”; works build on a gut feeling against as concept

Traditions of the island are developing through endless seasonal ritualised repetition on isolated by the sea land and affected by the dreams of shipwreck survivors and strange objects and ideas of unknown qualities washed on the shore, which are making you to forget about all logical structures you’ve been following before .. so "screen based" as all other conventional definitions of "cinema" can be challenged and new cinematic constructions and assemblages can be proposed

Selected videos will be screened at unconventional locations around the island Papa Westray (Papay) and nominated for Knap o Howar 2012 Art Prize (Art Prize issued by people of Papa Westray (Papay))

Send DVD to : Papay Gyro Nights 2012. Tredwall, Papa Westray, Orkney KW17 2BU, Scotland
or Email link to video to: ubahob@artserve.net (please do not email video files)

Deadline : 30 October 2011