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Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA

Buenos Aires, Argentina · Est. 1998 · Established legitimate festival with meaningful track record

Tier BTrusted
Buenos Aires, Argentina
65
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  • No physical screenings
  • 28 years of verifiable history
  • 3 verified pro signals

Overview

(ESPAÑOL DEBAJO/SPANISH BELOW) VDBA FESTIVAL 2023 - Fields InBetween Since 1995, the VideoDanzaBA International Festival (VDBA) has been a platform for promotion, education, reflection and development of networks of artistic manifestations around the body-technology axis in a broad sense. The Festival, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is proposed as a bridge for the spreading and professionalization of the Screendance sector. Through its activities, it seeks to achieve several objectives: to broadcast projections by local artists and those from neighboring countries, to promote multidisciplinary mentoring for the implementation of viable projects, to build networks and to bring art closer to the community. With an emphasis on international exchange, it develops residency plans with foreign organizations to stimulate research and artistic exchange, within a framework that encourages diversity. Its training program aims at both professional development and community outreach. Our program includes live performances, screenings, exhibitions, talks and special activities. This call is open to screendance pieces that express a creative dialogue between body, movement, camera, image and sound and that are pertinent to the axis detailed in the curatorial proposal. CURATORIAL PROPOSAL 2023 Through the terms Videodance/Screendance we point out a field that in its own naming is open to contamination and mutual enrichment of identities, ways of making, crossing of tools and resources. For the VDBA 2023 International Festival we thought of the possible interrelation of certain notions that can generate a conceptual framework through which to sift the productions (with the shaking from one side to the other that such action proposes). The nature of screendance is crossed by a continuous crisis of concepts, practices and worlds that enable a new possibility of changing the way we conceive things. We decided then to give place to works in which the crisis is present both thematically and in the relationship of the intervening elements. From this initial axis, we trace a beam in relation to the transmedia narrative, this being a type of narrative where the story unfolds through multiple media and communication platforms, and in which the receivers assume an active role in the process of expansion. A transmedia narrative contains stories that appear interrelated, maintaining narrative independence and generating a multiplicity of meanings. Finally, in total harmony with the idea of disciplinary crossings and from a perspective that sheds light on the current environmental crisis, we propose to work on the idea of composting, a controlled biological process of decomposition where what is apparently presented as discarded material ends up becoming a fertilizer. This composting enables us to cross and articulate three scenarios of life: art, technology and nature. ***** ESPAÑOL: Desde 1995, el Festival Internacional VideoDanzaBA (VDBA) se plantea como una plataforma de difusión, formación, reflexión y desarrollo de redes de las manifestaciones artísticas en torno al eje cuerpo-tecnología en sentido amplio. El Festival, con base en Buenos Aires, Argentina, se propone como un puente de difusión y profesionalización del sector de la videodanza. Por medio de sus actividades intenta abarcar diversos objetivos: difundir proyecciones de artistas locales y de países vecinos, promover tutorías multidisciplinarias para la puesta en marcha de proyectos viables, la construcción de redes de trabajo y el acercamiento del arte a la comunidad. Con acento en el intercambio internacional, desarrolla planes de residencias con organizaciones extranjeras para fomentar la investigación y el intercambio artístico, en un marco que alienta la diversidad. Su programa de Formación apunta tanto al desarrollo profesional como a la extensión a la comunidad. La programación incluye espectáculos en vivo, proyecciones, muestras, charlas y actividades especiales. El presente llamado está abierto para obras de videodanza que expresen un diálogo creativo entre cuerpo, movimiento, cámara, imagen y sonido y pertinencia a los ejes detallados en la propuesta curatorial. PROPUESTA CURATORIAL 2023 A través del término Videodanza señalamos un campo que en su propio nombrarse se abre a la contaminación y al enriquecimiento mutuo de identidades, de modos de hacer, de cruce de herramientas y recursos. Para el Festival Internacional VDBA 2023 pensamos en la posible interrelación de ciertas nociones que puedan generar un entramado conceptual a través del cual tamizar las producciones (con el agitar de un lado al otro que propone dicha acción). La naturaleza de la videodanza está atravesada por una continua puesta en crisis de conceptos, de prácticas, de mundos que habilitan una nueva posibilidad de cambiar la manera en que concebimos las cosas. Decidimos entonces dar lugar a obras en que la puesta en crisis se presente tanto en lo temático como en la relación de los elementos intervinientes. A partir de este eje inicial, trazamos un haz en relación a la narrativa transmediática, siendo esta un tipo de relato donde la historia se despliega a través de múltiples medios y plataformas de comunicación, y en el cual los receptores asumen un rol activo dentro de dicho proceso de expansión. Una narración transmedia contiene relatos que aparecen interrelacionados, manteniendo independencia narrativa y generando una multiplicidad de sentidos. Para finalizar, en total sintonía con la idea de cruces disciplinarios y desde una perspectiva que ponga luz sobre la actual crisis ambiental, proponemos trabajar sobre la idea del compostaje, proceso biológico controlado de descomposición donde lo que aparentemente se presenta como material de descarte se termina convirtiendo en abono. Este compostaje nos habilita una posibilidad de cruzar y articular tres escenarios de la vida: el arte, la tecnología y la naturaleza.

Last updated Oct 4, 2026

Legitimacy Analysis

Positive Indicators (+30 pts)

  • 28 years of verifiable history
  • 3 verified pro signals
  • Verified trusted status
  • Legitimacy signals outweigh concerns (3 vs 1)

Red Flags (-15 pts)

  • No physical screenings

Trust Signals

Positive Signals

  • Documented history with archived programs
  • Has FilmFreeway community ratings
  • FilmFreeway Gold festival

Festival Details

Founded

1998

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  • Filmmaker

    Alta calidad de obras. Referencia fundamental.

  • Filmmaker

    Fazer parte de um festival como o VideoDanzaBA é uma experiência muito emocionante e muito agradável. Eu fiquei muito feliz pelo tratamento e atenção dados. Realmente um dos melhores festivais que participei!

  • Filmmaker

    We are so grateful to have our film, home, as part of Festival Internacional VideoDanza! The added screening on National TV was a HUGE plus. A beautiful festival - thank you!

  • Filmmaker

    Feliz de participar y colaborar durante tantos años y de múltiples maneras en VideodanzaBA; Festival fundante y expansivo en Argentina del lenguaje de la videodanza. Gracias!!! Gracias totales x siempre y para siempre!!!

  • Filmmaker

    María Fernanda Vallejos

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Legitimacy Score65/100
TierTier B
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