Dear x-change,

We would like to inform you of our current call for proposals in
preparation for the next Paris/Berlin International Meetings.

Paris/Berlin International Meetings is a transdisciplinary action,
favoring contemporary creation in different fields: film,
video, installation, performance, and sound creation. Our aim is to
present in Paris and Berlin an international program to a wide
audience, and to dynamize exchanges.

The next Meetings will take place in Paris from December 1-15, 2000, and
in Berlin from the May 3-9, 2001.

This non-commercial event is organized by roARatorio, a non-profit
organization with an artistic and cultural aim.

This call for proposal is open to organizations, artists and
film-makers. The programming presented in Paris and Berlin will be made
up of these proposals.

We are sending you bellow a presentation of the next Meetings. A general
information is available at www.art-action.org  about the last editions,
and our other activities.

Please contact us any time,
Béatrice Rettig


Paris/Berlin International Meetings
51, rue Montorgueil - 75002 Paris - FRANCE
Tél : ++ 33 1 40 26 66 34
Fax : ++ 33 1 42 33 36 44
E-Mail: art-action@xxxxxxxx
Web site: www.art-action.org
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CALL FOR ENTRY

Cinema and Video Cycles
> Experimental Film - 35 mm, 16 mm, super 8
> Video art / Experimental video - All video formats
> Fiction / Full-length films - All formats
> Fictions / short, medium length - 35 mm, 16 mm, super 8 and video
> Documentaries - All formats
> Animation movie - All formats

Other Cycles
> Intervention - performance art, happening
> Installation - sound, cinema, video and multimedia
> Interactive writing - Network happening, forum, net art, CD-rom, real
time interaction
> Sound creation - Lecture, sound poetry, experimental music, concert
projection

Cinema and video proposals are received on VHS video copy. All proposals
are received by mail, enclose the entry form filled, dated and signed,
UNTIL THE 30TH OF SEPTEMBER 2000. The entry form, and all infomations
about the Meetings, are available on demand by email info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
, by telephone [+33] (0)1 40 26 66 34, by fax [+33] (0)1 42 33 36 44 or
on our web site www.art-action.org

Please send proposals with the entry form to the following adress :
Paris/Berlin International Meetings
51 rue Montorgueil
75002 Paris - France

Paris/Berlin International Meetings
51, rue Montorgueil - 75002 Paris - FRANCE
Tél : ++ 33 1 40 26 66 34
Fax : ++ 33 1 42 33 36 44
E-Mail: art-action@xxxxxxxx
Web site: www.art-action.org
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PARIS/BERLIN INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS #4

SYNTHESIS

Paris/Berlin Festival #4 is a transdisciplinary action, favorizing
contemporary creation in the movie, video, installation art, happening
and sound creation fields.
This non commercial event is organized by roARatorio, a non profit
organisation ruled by the 1901 french law within artistic and cultural
aim, whose Paris and Berlin staff guarantee functionning and
coordination.
The next International Paris/Berlin Meetings will take place in Paris
from the first to the fifteenth of December 2000 and in Berlin from the
third to the ninth of may 2001.

Anterior presentations
> Festival #1 - Paris : August 20-22, 1997 - Action Christine Movie
theater
> Festival #2 - Berlin : December 3-9 1998 - Brotfabrik center
> Festival #3 - Paris : June 10-22, 1999 - Cerise, Action Christine
Odéon movie theatre, Ensba-National Superior School of Fine Arts in
Paris, Public, Jean Dame movie theatre, Fnac-Les-Halles Auditorium,
Stock

ELEMENTS
> In the spirit of the past three festivals, we want to center the
fourth Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin on contemporary
creation,presenting works that effectively integrate the themes and
languages of different areas of expression, probing the image and its
relationship to time and space, investigations into the language of
cinema and the audio-visual and plastic arts, itself an act of
discovery.
> These works taken together make up a laboratory of current creation
that we hope to explore and make known. The first Rencontres
Internationales Paris/Berlin in 1997 offered mainly film and video
programs. The range of formats - super 8, 16mm, 35mm and video -, of
genres - experimental film, fiction, documentary, video art, etc -, and
of techniques related both to cinema and the fine arts created a lively
space for screenings and meetings, and concretized the idea of
cross-disciplinary links within a particular event. Widening our
programming in 1998 and 1999 to include real-time actions, performance
pieces, the direct presence of body and voice with audience interaction,
allowed us, for the second and third Rencontres, to present
installations, "multimedia" works, and performances, thus extending this
cross-pollenation between film and video, contemporary visual arts and
multimedia creations.
> For the fourth Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin we hope to
continue this activity, to once again create a space for exchanges and
meetings between various forms of artistic language and their public. By
bringing together the diverse mediums of creation and their respective
audiences and allowing them to communicate, the Rencontres becomes an
open event in which the specificities and correspondences of languages
and gazes can emerge within the evolving contemporary production.
> The event hopes to coincide with and to produce trajectories or paths
between various contemporary creative practices, between different
audiences, between artists and filmmakers, between diverse geographical,
artistic and cultural spaces in Paris and Berlin. These two cities today
benefit from a difference allowing an approach to significant elements
in our society, a greater understanding of current trends in artistic
and cultural contexts, a greater understanding of the prizes at stake.

PROGRAMMING
> The programming of films and videos unites short, medium and
full-length films, experimental movies, video art, documentaries,
animated films, on super 8, 16 mm, 35 mm and video. Paris/Berlin
Festival #4 proposes to its public films made by independent film
directors, by cinema school students, by directors working outside any
institutional network, films made in 'classical' production, as well as
films made by famous directors and artists who, by the spirit of their
approach, their committment and their research, take part actively in
the progress of the visual arts.
> The programming of «multimedia, interventions and installations»,
opened to plastic art, unites performance, happening, action, happening
with projection, concert live with projection, sound poetry, sound
installation, video installation, art on line and CD-Rom. The
contribution of these different language is to be taken in
consideration. Their copresence during the Paris/Berlin Festival #4 will
enable the public to re-situate the film projection inside the history
of visual art which is in permanent progress.
> Debates, each day, will center around a particular guest: artists and
directors, art and cinema critics, writers, academics and others
actively engaged in the arts and culture.

CYCLES
Each day's program will mix various cycles, fields, styles and
techiques, around topics favoring dialogs.
Cinema and video cycles:
> Experimental Film - 35 mm, 16 mm, super 8
> Video art / Experimental video - All video formats
> Fiction / Full-length films - 35 mm, 16 mm, super 8 and video
> Fictions / short, medium length - 35 mm, 16 mm, super 8 and video
> Documentaries - All support
> Animation movie - All support
Other Cycles:
> Intervention - performance art, happening, intervention
> Installation - sound, cinema, video and multimedia
> Interactive writing - Network happening, forum, net art, CD-rom, real
time interaction
> Sound creation - Lecture, sound poetry, experimental music, concert
projection, sound creation
> Debates

SPACES
The programme will be presented in different places geographicly closed.
We want to propose to the public a circulation between different places
in the urban space.
> Projections
The projection rooms will be presented the whole cinema, most of the
video programme, all the discussions and concert-projections.
> Spaces for video on monitor
In this places video works will be showed using computer or TV-monitor,
and multimedia works created and broadcasted on Internet or on CD-Roms.
In this places, works will be shown continuously.
> Spaces for installations
In this places will be devoted to cinema, video and multimedia
installations. In this places, works will be shown continuously.
> Intervention, concerts and performances
Those interventions will take place all over the places.
> Video-library and sound-library
A video library for consultation on demand will be proposed to the
public. It will present all the films and videos of the programming
authorized by their authors. A sound library for consultation on demand
will be proposed.
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Paris/Berlin International Meetings
51, rue Montorgueil - 75002 Paris - FRANCE
Tél : ++ 33 1 40 26 66 34
Fax : ++ 33 1 42 33 36 44
E-Mail: art-action@xxxxxxxx
Web site: www.art-action.org


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