Open Call: Single Channel VT 5th Annual International Video Festival 2025

Artists are invited to submit a short video that corresponds to this year’s theme: Resistance

We can become part of a widening when we refuse to be narrowed. - Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

Resistance is a relationship. Are you keeper or are you kept?

Resistance is geologic.

What does resistance look like when the algorithm knows your shames, your loves, your kinks, knows what you want before you want it? When the protest gets a police escort? When you buy a Starbucks afterward, because god can we just live for a minute?

At every turn you foil me. And yet through some luck/grace/will/inverse inertia we get on with it - with the spongy matter of loving.

The pitfalls are many! The vertical task of somehow having connection when the name of the game is to go untouched. A saddling of SLOW deliberate motion that must sustain a strobe light of assaults. We doom-scroll to chill out. Can I resist and still have fun?

We cannot speak of resistance without her sister temptation. And get to a salient point that yes sometimes to resist is to forgo desire, to deny pleasure - a wet with wanting and mouth full of lightning that_goes_nowhere_. Although_ must every lost hard-on become a little baby angel in heaven? Might we question the narrative that everything you’ve ever wanted is a half breath away; dreams that become landfill, become bombs, and then too become billable at $300 per hour so you can cry in front of someone who’s sworn to secrecy. Might we question the myth that accountability isn’t sexy, was never sexy.

Might we crawl toward an ethic that holds frustration and elation. Toward a field of heterogeneity, plurality, exchanges, toward dildonics (thank you, Paul). Is resistance an insistence on collectivity, on saliva vs. bleach?

We have been able to resist because we expanded our subjectivity, refusing to accept the idea that we’re all the same. - Ailton Krenak, Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

We are looking for work that takes up the project of resistance, in the un/knowable breadth of what that may mean.

Details and online entry form found here

$15 Submission Fee

Deadline for submissions January 15, 2025, 11:59pm ET