OPEN CALL—SCREENING: FAKENESS
Submit your film, moving image or animation for the third edition of Das Leben am Haverkamp’s window screening! In November and December we will transform the facade of our studio into an open air cinema. Every two weeks, a new experimental triptych will light up the windows, and you could be part of it! We’re looking for fresh voices in the fields of animation, visual art, digital fashion, and costume design.
In this edition we explore Fakeness: faux fur, fake jewellery, digital twins, impersonators, as-if. What can we learn from the imitation, the fictional or the rip-off? Are we threatened by them, or can they be seen as a relief in a world that seems to be obsessed with realness and authenticity? What does the fake tell us about the real? Who decides what is classified as authentic? Collectively we aim to research the ambiguity of realness and fakeness. Do you have work that explores or challenges the theme Fakeness? Submit your piece and seize the chance to have your film shown large and in public, right in the heart of the city, visible to all.
Our studio is located at a lively thoroughfare on the edge of central The Hague, The Netherlands. Strolling around from their homes to work/for the sake of Chinese food/to go to the mosque/for shopping/amids The Hague’s contemporary art scene/to the cinema/to the red light district, your work will reach a diverse audience passing by our studio. Screening: Fakeness is part of contemporary art tour Hoogtij.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Selected filmmakers will receive 1151 euro artist fee to develop a suitable edit of their submitted work. Our big windows will operate as three separate portrait orientated projection surfaces, ready for you to be covered with moving images. Please note that the screening does not allow sound. Technical support for installing the work will be provided.
Window screening dimensions:
Left: 735 x 2140 mm, middle: 1590 x 2440 mm, right: 720 x 2140 mm
Maybe your film will be screened during Hoogtij The Hague and/or OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival 2025 by Current Obsession!
Deadline for submission is 31 August 2025, 23:59 h. [closed]
Applications will be reviewed by an external selection committee. This year's committee consists of Caz Egelie (visual artist), Rosa Meulenbeld (visual artist and digital fashion fanatic) and Sami Ullah Shah (neighbour). One last jury member is yet to be announced. The selection of the artists will be based on the quality of the work, the connection with the theme Fakeness and how it suits the given context of the window.
Questions concerning this open call can be sent to joost@daslebenamhaverkamp.com. Applicants will be notified about the selection results at the end of September.
We are looking forward to receiving your films!
This program is kindly supported by Creatieve Industries NL, Cultuurfonds and Gemeente Den Haag.