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SEVENTH ANNUAL VIDEOFEST, 1994

VideoFest is one of the largest and most well-known international video festivals. Staged annually in conjunction with the Berlin Film Festival, it presents the best videos of the past year - ranging from video art, creative documentaries and feature films to video experiments, aesthetically rewarding clips, and computer animation.

The work must be innovative and should help to advance the audiovisual idiom. Each VideoFest also displays a selection of video sculptures.

A few numbers:

The festival lasts for eight days and offers thirteen hours of programming daily (February 10-20, 1994).

For 1994 we have received more than 1300 videos from 42 countries - yielding a final selection of 272 from 26 countries.

In 1993 more than 6000 viewers and 452 accredited experts from 29 countries attended VideoFest. This year the figures will be even higher. Prizes valued at slightly less than 40,000 DM ($ 25,000) will be awarded. The Berlin-based television network IA will devote an hour of coverage to the festival each day.

VideoFest features a wide variety of programs and special events: performances, exhibitions, meetings, conferences, and more.

Despite the very personal atmosphere of the festival, it has also become an important international meeting place for professionals who set the standards of videocultural discourse. It has also established many new links between video and television.


Here's a breakdown of the festival program for 1994:

As always, evenings will be dominated by the Main Program (20:30) and Nightflight (22:30). The FOCUS series, concentrating on specific topics, countries, and people, starts daily at 12 noon. This time FOCUS takes aim at the history of German video as well as showing new videos from Spain, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. It's followed at 18:00 by the SPOT series, where twelve experts from six countries will discuss the changing relationship between video and TV.


Direct communication with VideoFest visitors or the festival organizers is possible from 12:00 to 24:00 (Central European Time) via irc-channel #luxlogis.

VideoFest is organized by MEDIOPOLIS, an independent producer and organizer of events relating to the culture of electronic media.

VideoFest is generally interested in expanding its contacts with Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America. Contacts can be individuals, video production and distribution organizations, and regional or national associations.

For the duration of the festival we'll also be conducting an ongoing discussion on the subject of ELECTRONIC CULTURE via the Internet.



If you're interested, please let us know your opinion on one of the following points. We'll also publish them at VideoFest, and perhaps one of our visitors will be interested in communicating with you in greater detail.

1. When most people hear the phrase "electronic culture," they usually think of television. Is television culture?

2. What are possible forms that television art could take?

3. Another variant: "television by artists." What would it look like?

4. What do you associate with the phrase "video culture"?

5. What would you like to know about video?

6. Are you interested in discussing other forms of electronic culture - multimedia, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, etc.? This is a good place to start.


And many people ANSWERED.


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