Call for Entries

From this week's Charleston City Paper:

Lights, camera, Gibbes

Following the success of last year's inaugural Night of Short Films, organized by City Paper contributor Nick Smith, the Gibbes Museum of Art is reprising the event in May, and they're looking to make your movie part of it.

Whether your interests lie in dark humor, the gentler touch of romance, horror, or even foreign language film, any genre is welcome as long as it's original.

Taking place on the evening of May 4 in the rear courtyard of the Gibbes, the second Night of Short Films will mix the visual with the virtual by making the event concurrent with the Janet Biggs exhibition of video installations Like Tears in Rain, on view in the Gibbes' Rotunda May 4-Aug. 12.

Smith says films should fit a theme of "freedom of expression and free will" this time around. Entries are welcome on DVD and must be received by April 10.

There's no submission fee, and the previous Night of Short Films supplied refreshments and a free screening of the winning flicks, making the project a mission worth any movie buff's time.

So get writing and start those cameras rolling. For more information, contact the Gibbes Museum at 722-2706 x38.