open call
hungry eyes festival 2025
24.10. - 02.11.2025
For its seventh edition, hungry eyes festival is once again looking for artistic works that question film in an interdisciplinary way. A program consisting of short film series and installative works will explore what constitutes the medium film and how cinematographic elements and working methods can be translated into other media. Together, we want to examine the extent to which film can provide political or social impulses, how films or projections can intervene in real existing spaces, which assumptions about (filmic) aesthetics can be turned upside down or what the relationship is between a repeatable two-dimensional film and an installation work with no time limit. From a ballet of overhead projectors, to an exhibition with flipbooks, to a silent film screening with VR-glasses, everything is possible.
hungry eyes ist looking for your short films and installation works!
Apply until December 31st!
Short Films:
We are looking for short films regardless of the year and country of production. We particularly welcome submissions that reflect on the medium of film, deal with it in an experimental way, defy formal categorization and/or see themselves as cinematic experiments. Commissioned works, commercials and trailers are excluded.
Duration: maximum 20 minutes
Language: We welcome submissions in their original language. If this is not German or English, we ask you to send a film file with subtitles (in German or English).
Playback-format: For the screening at the festival we can use physical storage media (like a usb stick) or download links. Unfortunately we can not use analogue playback formats, but of course we accept digitized productions.
Das Kurzfilmprogramm wird im Kinocenter Gießen präsentiert.
>> Online-Applicationform for Short Films. <<
Installations:
We are looking for installations that relate to film, image media, image spaces or projections in terms of content and/or form and can be realized in one of the following two spaces:
Trafo:Trafo is a studio community and an exhibition space with a charming ambience. The exhibition space located in the front area is visible from the street via a wide window front; it is approximately 5-6m wide and 2.5-3m deep, and the ceiling height is approx. 4m. At the rear of the showroom is a 1.5m wide staircase, which must remain unobstructed for safety reasons.
Pausenraum (Town Hall Gießen):This room is located on the ground floor and is part of the wide glass façade of the town hall on Berliner Platz, centrally located in downtown Giessen. The room will not be accessible all the time, which is why works that can be seen through the shop window from the square are suitable here. The dimensions of the room are approximately: 11m x 4.5m. Height approx. 3 m.
Pictures Trafo and Pausenraum.
>> Online-Applicationform for Installation works. <<
Further Information:
Fee (This is not a submission fee. This is your payment that you get from us for showing your work.):
Short films: 150 EUR per film
Installations: 400 EUR per installation + 150 EUR per set-up and dismantling day
Technical Equipment: We can provide exhibition equipment by prior arrangement.
Travel, transportation, accommodation: Travel and transportation costs as well as accommodation are covered for installation-artists.
