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Kinodot goes back onlineFinally, the news! The 8th Kinodot is going to play online like in good old days on May 22-26. And we will introduce our beautiful jury very soon! And we will announce the program shortly, and it's awesome, like always)! See you in a bit! * Collage by Anaïs Ibert 
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The entry call for the 8th Kinodot has started!Dear Filmmakers, The 8th Kinodot Experimental Film Festival has opened the entry call! We are looking forward to receiving your new experimental films (any length, any genre) before 28.02.2020 via FilmFreeway or Festhome! Please, check our Regulations for more details. |
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Destinations. Special Screening at Pleasure Dome (Toronto) Dear friends, if you happen to be in Toronto for whatever possible reason), please, come by our screening Destinations on June 15th presented by Alena at Pleasure Dome! Destinations moving images from the Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, featuring works from Brazil, Thailand, Qatar, Palestine, Lesotho and Finland. While each film is formally distinct, they carry political messages that are part of an urgent conversation. The themes of displacement, exile, and societies-in-transition echoes throughout. This program includes a slow-moving film essay on ecology and indigenous culture, genre-bending film-provocation and homeless home movies. Look Closely at the Mountains, Ana Vaz, 2018 | Brazil/France Curated by Alena Koroleva. Link to the event: http://pdome.org/2019/destinations/ 
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And here is the decision of our jury!The prize for the best experimental film and $1000 Yung Lean, Please Be My Yung Love by Julia Mellen: a modern love story - honest, heartfelt, messy, direct, all told in the language of the youtube era. Special mention by the jury Operation Jane Walk by Leonhard Müllner and Robin Klengel: original and bright work with an innovative approach and a good sense of humor. The directors look at the urbanism of New York and its historic, political, economic and social aspects, and at the same time reflect on the representation of the virtual and the violence within it. The film is full of sensational ironic details, it’s well written, funny and political. Special mention by the jury Gulyabani by Gürcan Keltek: a dense essay with semantic depth, mythology, a dramatic story, and a delightful presentation - very subtle cinematic matter achieving inner intellectual silence. Congratulations to the winners! The Jury 2019: Miquel Martí Freixas, Wouter Jansen and Tamara Larina *Still from Yung Lean, Please Be My Yung Love by Julia Mellen 
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We are happy to present our trailer!The timetable is published on the Russian side of the website (http://kinodot.com/rus/Kinodot_2019/) And here is our new trailer by Alena Koroleva: |
The VII Kinodot festival announces the competition program!This year we have selected 18 films for competition: .TV by G. Anthony Svatek, 22' USA, New Zealand, France, Tuvalu, 2017 27 thoughts about my dad by Mike Hoolboom, 26' Canada, 2018 About a Woman Who Wanted To Fly Away by Sasha Svirsky, 8' Russia, 2018 China Not China by Richard Tuohy, 14' Australia, 2018 Dot Matrix by Lauren Cook, 4' USA, 2017 Gulyabani by Gürcan Keltek, 34' Turkey, Netherlands, 2018 Look closely at the mountains by Ana Vaz, 30' Brasil, France, 2018 Magic Bath by Grace Mitchell, 8' USA, 2018 Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt by Yoni Brook, 8' Pacho Velez, USA, 2017 Operation Jane Walk by Leonhard Müllner and Robin Klengel, 17' Austria, 2018 Phosphenes by Franck Ravel, 9' Belgium, 2018 The Island by Alexandra Gelis, 6' Canada, USA, Colombia, 2018 The Open Window by Lynne Siefert, 7' USA, 2017 The Place From Where I Write You Letters by Nikolina Bogdanović, 9' Croatia, 2018 Their Rancid Words Stagnate Our Ponds by Andrew Kotting, 9' Chile, United Kingdom, 2018 Tropics by Mathilde Lavenne, 14' France, 2018 We share ourselves with you by Max Wildenhaus, 8' USA, 2018 Yung Lean, Please Be My Yung Love by Julia Mellen, 14' USA, 2018 *** Congratulations to the authors of the selected films! More about the program: http://kinodot.com/eng/Kinodot_2019/ The screenings will take place on 31.05-02.06 in Rodina cinema. Poster: the still from Look closely at the mountains by Ana Vaz 
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Our entry call is overThank you all very much for sending your films! 
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The new entry call has started!Dear Filmmakers, The 7th Kinodot Experimental Film Festival has opened the entry call! We are looking forward to receiving your new experimental films (any length, any genre) before 28.02.2019 via our favorite platforms: reelport, FilmFreeway, Withoutabox, Festhome and FilmFestivalLife! Please, check our Regulations for more details. Still from Please Come Again by Alisa Yang 
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Here comes the decision of our Jury!Our 2018 Jury first special mention goes to Destination Nowhere by Prapat Jiwarangsan (Thailand 2018) for it’s intelligent and aesthetically convincing technical-aesthetic decisions to work with monotonous and repetitive manual work and a rough sound to evoke questions of (in-)visibility and precariousness of a marginalized person in a dominant surrounding. Our 2018 Jury second special mention goes to Optimism by Deborah Stratman (USA / Canada 2018) for it’s humorous and sensitive research into the landscape and history of a special place linking it to the allegorical and conquering quest for light and sun, gold and wealth - and evoking the film-historic genre of gold digging on many levels as an underlying metaphor. With great unanimity we would like to give the award for best film at the 2018 Kinodot Film Festival in St. Petersburg to a film which stands out for its brilliant complexity, its multitude of narrative layers, its subjective urgency. We were thrilled and enchanted by the aesthetic and sensitive diversity of styles, how animation builds up from the structures in the photographs. We were equally intrigued by the convincing visceral quality of the soundtrack and especially the voice with it’s different acoustic levels. The grandmother's story is dealt with fragile complexity and we see and hear the work of a filmmaker/artist who manages to densely combine aesthetic and concept. So the 2018 award goes to Where is Eva Hipsey? by Orla McHardy (Ireland 2017) The Jury: Madeleine Bernstorff, Andrea Slovakova, Yakov Lurie, Marc Pelletier Congratulations to our prizewinners!! *Still from Where is Eva Hipsey? by Orla McHardy 
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Kinodot at Rodina on the 2nd and 3rd of June 02.06, 19.00 Rodina cinema (Karavannaya str., 12) Gare Paris-Saint-Lazare, 10 avril 2017, 12h03-12h07 by Pablo-Martin Cordoba, France, Argentina 03.06, 19.00 Rodina cinema (Karavannaya str., 12) Flame by Sami van Ingen, Finland Tickets: http://rodinakino.ru/ 
*On the poster - still from NN by Pablo Mazzolo, Argentina |
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The competition program of VI Kinodot is announced! This year our competition program includes a record number of 24 films. But, although the program has grown bigger than ever, it actually consists of only two screenings, and we think it's a good approach to try and avoid unhealthy growth (that many good festivals have been the victims of), and stay compact, hungry and mobile. So, here is the program: http://kinodot.com/eng/kinodot_2018 
And here is the list of selected films: A Plastic Bottle's Stair Dance by Mikhail Basov, Russia Accelere Chapultepec by Kaveh Nabatian, Canada, Mexico Cargo by Jasmine Ellis, Germany Destination Nowhere by Prapat Jiwarangsan, Thailand Elastic Recurrence by Johan Rijpma, The Netherlands Film-collage 2 - introduction by Anais Ibert, France Flame by Sami van Ingen, Finland Forest Paths (forget Heidegger) by Michiel van Bakel, The Netherlands Gare Paris-Saint-Lazare, 10 avril 2017, 12h03-12h07 by Pablo-Martin Cordoba, France, Argentina Hijacked by Shambhavi Kaul, USA Katagami by Michael Lyons, Japan L'envol by Patrick Bokanowski, France Martin Cries by Jonathan Vinel, France NN by Pablo Mazzolo, Argentina Optimism by Deborah Stratman, USA / Canada Overland (part one) by James Edmonds, Germany Please Come Again by Alisa Yang, United States Sky Room by Marianna Milhorat, USA Song For Billy by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, UK Tangled by Pille-Riin Jaik, Austria What Time Is Love? by Anna Franceschini, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany Where is Eva Hipsey? by Orla McHardy, Ireland XCTRY by Bill Brown, USA Your father was born a 100 years old, and so was the Nakba by Razan AlSalah, Palestine *Still from Flame by Sami van Ingen |
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Kinodot invites to the special screening in Brno (Czech Republic) 05.04 at 20.30 TIC gallery, Radnicka 4, Brno, Czech Republic Program of films from our competitions |
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Our entry call is over Thank you all very much for sending your films! This year we have more entries than before, so now we are going to do our job and will get back to you with selection results as soon as we can. 
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Kinodot invites for special screenings in Moscow and Tbilisi 21.02 at 20.00 Karo 11 Oktyabr, 24 Novy Arbat, Moscow, Russia 23.02 at 19.00 Cinema House, 2 Dzmebi Kakabadzeebi St, Tbilisi, Georgia «Festival <Kinodot> accepts films matching at least one criteria: no money, no mumbling, no music, no montage — so the conventional works give way to more radical ones, poetic, often amateur and other kinds of films forming the alternative to the elitist canon of mainstream festival programming» (Yakov Lurie, Glukk.com) Program (95 minutes) Out of Autofocus by Mikhail Basov, 2016, Russia, 2 min. |
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The entry call is open The 6th Kinodot Experimental Film Festival has opened the new entry call! Please, submit your films before the 28th of February. We accept experimental films of any length finished after 01.2016 via all our favorite platforms: Reelport, FilmFreeway, Withoutabox, Festhome, Click for festivals, FilmFestivalLife and MoviBeta! Please, read the Regulations here. 
Still from Bad mama, who cares courtesy of Brigid McCaffrey |
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The Jury has spoken! It's been a few days since the screenings and now we can finally announce the decision made by our international jury. The prize for the best film and $1000 go to Stillness by Marc Pelletier, Canada! Congratulations to Marc and big thank you to all filmmakers, who took part in Kinodot competition!
Thank you all and see you soon! 
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The screenings of Kinodot competition will take place on 27-28.05 in Rodina cinema and Wordorder in St. Petersburg The Schedule 27.05 19.00 Rodina, Maliy Zal 2 (Karavannaya, 12) 21.00 Rodina, Maliy Zal 2 (Karavannaya, 12) 28.05 19.00 Rodina, Maliy Zal 2 (Karavannaya, 12) 21.30 Wordorder (Fontanka, 15) Tickets to Rodina can be purchased here: http://rodinakino.ru/ 
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The competition program of V Kinodot has been published! We proudly present our competition program 2017! There are 17 films, including 2 films by people we have met before in different years - our former prize winner Yann Chapotel and our ex jury member David Munoz. Thank you all for sending us your films and congratulations to our participants with selection! 
A Farewell To All That by David Muñoz, 2016, Spain, 28 min. Please, read more about the films on the competition' page: http://kinodot.com/eng/Kinodot_2017/ |
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The entry call for the V Kinodot has started! New year — new rules: Kinodot becomes the festival of experimental films Click on the logo to read the new regulations: 
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The closing ceremony and the screening of prize winning films will take place on July 3rd at 17.00 at Rodina cinema. Address: Karavannaya 12, St. Petersburg. 
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ASAP and Observer — Short Film Competitions 2016 ASAP (as soon as possible) is starting on the 1st of April on our website. The screenings of Observer program will take place in St. Petersburg on the 16th and 17th of April, at 19.30 at Fotografika Academy, Ligovskiy prospekt 25 (entrance from per. Uliana Gromova, first arcade, code 2945B). |
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Short Film Competition 2015 The results of the 3d Kinodot competition The Audience Award goes to ‘The Milkman’ directed by Joe Bor & Daniel Berg, produced by Howard Cohen, United Kingdom. The Jury Team 2015 |
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Short Film Competition 2014 
01-30.04.2014 Competition page The second Kinodot competition is over, but some films are still available online. Here are the results: Special mention from the jury ― Junction by Andrey Klychnikov, Russia: For catchy minimalistic and extremely well balanced illustration of casual human interaction. The winners of the audience prize and the jury prize will get $500 each from our partner Smart Media Systems. |
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Short Film of the Day & Dot Shorts Program
From the 1 of June we publish a new film every few days. Most of the films participating in Dot Shorts program are still available after 31.03.2014.
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Films by John Smith 
Om by John Smith
Only on Kinodot! Special program by John Smith, one of the most interesting avant-garde filmmakers of our time. Read more & watch |
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Experimental Short Films presented by Balagan Film Series 01-31.05.2013 This program of films and animations was collected from friends and collaborators of Balagan -- a monthly series of film screenings that has been in operation since 2000. Balagan was begun by two avant-garde filmmakers -- Jeff Silva and Alla Kovgan -- in a small video projection room of a movie theater in Brookline, MA. It has since grown to include two more curators -- Stefan Grabowski and Mariya Nikiforova -- and to be hosted by the historic Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA, which accommodates a couple hundred audience members and a variety of analog and digital formats.... The program has finished, but most of the films are available online |
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Short Film Competition 2013
01-30.04.2013 Awards 2013 Audience Prize: For it is dark in the hole by Florian Seufert The 14 short movies in competition have been selected by our team from almost 700 entries according to the criteria: No Money, No Mumbling, No Music, No Montage. The winners were decided by the audience vote and professional jury. The competition has finished, but many of the films are available online |
