Call for Submissions: The Cinema Issue
- 06/26/2023
- 11:59pm CT
Event details
For our winter 2023 issue, guest-edited by filmmaker, educator, and writer Saeed Taji Farouky, we seek works which explore the relationship between moving image–making and writing and what the two practices can offer one another.
The deadline for submissions has been extended to June 26, 2023 at 11:59pm CT.
In this themed issue, we invite submissions to formally and/or conceptually explore moving images through the history of SWANA cinema, poetry films, analyses of film programming, writing by filmmakers, film archiving, screenplays, audition calls, end/title credits, movie posters, storyboards, title cards, movie tickets, movie house architecture, etc. which are encouraged to respond to a specific focus of “fragmentation.”
Submissions can approach fragmentation, ruptures, cuts, fractures, or fissures in a myriad of ways. They could be deliberately fragmented, designed to resist or heal fragmentation, or explore what fractures, ruptures, and wounds could generate anew. This edition of Mizna will challenge linear narratives and deterministic storytelling while writing with cinema.
We encourage people to take an expansive view of this theme, interpreting it as literally or conceptually as fits the vision of their particular submission.