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Festival ECRÃ
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The ECRÃ FESTIVAL is an experimental art and cinema event that seeks to stimulate audiovisual culture through experiences that question the notion and production of moving images. By exhibiting films, games, installations, interactive arts, performances and video arts, ECRÃ encourages new formats for the production and exhibition of these works.

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CATEGORIES
Feature and Medium-Length Films
Films that generally do not reach the usual exhibition circuit or festivals and that show the public that cinema goes beyond the standard found in the mass film industry.
Eligible Works
Avant garde, Experimental, Structural, Free, Expanded Cinema.
Duration for Mediums: between 40 and 60 minutes.
Length for Feature Films: 60 minutes or more.
Short Films
Films that generally do not reach the usual exhibition circuit or festivals and that show the public that cinema goes beyond the standard found in the mass film industry.
Eligible Works
Avant garde, Experimental Cinema, Structural, Free, Expanded with duration between 0 and 40 minutes.
Games
Electronic games are a medium with a long history, in addition to being one of the biggest forms of entertainment today. They are an important tool for narrative, innovation, interaction and technology.
Selected Works in this Category will be exhibited in the Online Stage.
Eligible WorksEligible Works:
Experimental games, video games for PC, cell phones and other devices.
Installations and Interactive Arts
Immersive, concrete works, practical effects, different media and technologies that use space, artifacts such as glasses, objects or different screens. Works that depend on a specific space, object or platform to exist. Works that are interactive via buttons, screens, mouse, touch, entry, circulation, devices. New forms of interactivity with video, film, space, sculpture, lights and projection.
Eligible Works
Interactive Installations, Immersive Installations, Multi-media Installations, Video Arts, Virtual Reality (VR), 360° videos, new media, interactive arts, hybridizations and other types of Installation, Interactivities, Mobile Videos, other formats.
Video Arts and New Media
Everything and not restricted to video forms that do not fit into the other Categories. Video arts are forms of video that do not need a specific object or place to be experienced, and can be seen on any screen or device. Focused on digital files that can be seen online, but not restricted to this. Looping video, non-cinema, internet experiments such as gifs, memes. Forms of video that, on the screen, do not depend on space or external manipulation.
Eligible Works: Video art, looping videos, gifs, internet videos, memes, video files, video performances, music clips.
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