POSTHUMANLY SPEAKING - II Edition of the international video creation contest AI+

DOWNLOAD THE 2025 CALL

OPEN CALL 2025

From April 1st to May 5th

1.Thematic Lines

The "Posthumanly Speaking" video creation contest is organized based on three thematic lines regarding on AI as a reference framework, in: 

A: Identities in Transit 

We move across borders, bodies, and desires, blurring lines that were never fixed. We celebrate identities as fluid and multiple territories, as constellations in perpetual rearrangement. This call is for those who feel and create from that untamed space of displacement-ranging from migration and political or cultural exiles to internal and personal journeys.

This thematic line seeks to capture stories that speak of movement, reflect on trajectories and intersections, and illuminate the singular perspective of each path.

B: Obsolete Nature

The traditional dichotomy between nature and culture has lost its meaning in contemporary times. From a human perspective, nature cannot be conceived as an independent or external dimension separate from our culture but rather as a web of interconnections. In a world where technology, biopolitics, and human intervention have profoundly transformed ecosystems and our relationship with them, the notion of a "pure" or untouched nature dissolves.

This line is aimed at works that are structured, either literally or poetically, around concepts related to post-nature.

C: Divergent Realities 

Reality is a fragile construction, a whisper of agreements that tremble upon contact. What we call "reality" is, in truth, a mosaic of realities-a fleeting, tacit pact between values, perspectives, and sensibilities in tension. Is the peaceful coexistence of divergent realities over time possible? What happens when what we believed to be real unfolds or multiplies in the face of the reality of others-both human and non-human?

This line is a call to embrace new orders and chaos, to inhabit the fissures where the 'new' takes shape. Transformative works that dismantle the univocal to reveal the seed of multiplicity.

2.Terms and conditions 

2.1. This contest, dedicated to short-term video creation, is aimed at audiovisual works designed to be presented on a single screen (i.e. single-channel works). This category includes works recognized in the field of video art, experimental video and animation, documentary essays, and/or various non-traditional audiovisual genres.  

2.2. Works may have been generated and/or post-produced by automatic content generation, or by any other technique. 

2.3. Works must be original and respect the copyright of third parties. They can be produced in any language, but if it's not in Spanish, Catalan or English, they must be subtitled in one of those three languages. 

2.4. Works cannot exceed 12 minutes long (including credits, if any) and must be presented in a viewing link that the authors or groups agree to keep active until the contest is resolved. The link can be hidden. Other formats and qualities will be requested from the winning short films. 

2.5. Each person can present a maximum of one (1) short film in each of the proposed lines. Presenting a short film as part of a collective excludes the possibility of presenting a second one individually (and vice versa) in the same thematic line. If it is detected that more than one work has been sent, only the first one will be considered valid. 

2.6. The presentation of audiovisual works in this contest doesn't exclude that they may have been exhibited in other festivals or contexts, or even have been previously awarded. The works cannot have been produced before January 1st, 2021. 

3.Submission

3.1. Individuals or groups of any nationality and country of residence may participate in the contest. 

3.2. The call will remain open until May 5th, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. (GMT+1 time). 

3.3. Works must be registered using a form that can be accessed at this link which will serve to provide the following information: 

AUTHORSHIP: 

• Name(s) and surname(s) or name of the group (+ representative) 
• Contact information: phone and email 
• City/country of residence 
• Optional: Website and/or networks 
• Biography(ies): 1,500 characters 
• Photo(s) portrait of authors (300 dpi 1920x1080) 

ARTWORK:

• Title 
• Duration 
• Date of issue 
• Source format (e.g. analog video, digital, etc.).  
• Work description, including creative concept and execution technique (2,000 characters maximum) 
• Frames or representative images (300 dpi 1920x1080) 
• Link. The works must be sent digitally through a viewing and/or download link. It's  the authors responsibility to send the links correctly, and must ensure that they remain active during the evaluation time. It's suggested to upload material to a private viewing link or with a download option (Vimeo, Dropbox, YouTube, etc.). 

4.Awards, exhibition and other use licenses 

4.1. The following prizes will be awarded: 

-€500 prize for the best audiovisual work in the Identities in Transit line. 

-€500 prize for the best audiovisual work in the Obsolete Nature line. 

-€500 prize for the best audiovisual work in the Divergent Realities line. 

-Special prize of €300 for best audiovisual work produced by students or former students of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, or groups that include at least one student or former student member of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 

4.2.  The prizes cannot be cumulative.

4.3. The prizes may be void if the jury so deems it. The jury's decision will be final and unappealable. 

4.4. The financial prizes will be subject to the corresponding withholdings of each country. Payments will be made by bank transfer to the bank account of the artist or the collective's representative indicated on this registration form. If awarded a prize, a bank account holder certificate may be requested.

4.5. The winning pieces will be projected at Mèdol - the Center d'Arts Contemporànies de Tarragona and will be broadcast through physical and digital channels that the convening institutions consider appropriate. Likewise, they may become part of the programming of the Media Arts Biennial of Santiago de Chile to be exhibited in person or in completely online formats, which will be determined among the Biennial curatorial team, as well as the exhibitions spaces associated with it. 

4.6. The authors of the pre-selected and selected short films grant, just by the fact of participating in the call, authorization to the Rovira i Virgili University, to Mèdol - Center d'Arts Contemporànies de Tarragona, PAM - Plataforma Arte y Medios and to the Chilean Corporation of Video and Electronic Arts the right to reproduce, publish, translate and communicate to the public the pieces for non-profit dissemination purposes; authorization that is granted without temporal or territorial limit. The selected works may be exhibited for free in future editions and activities related to the "Posthumanly Speaking" contest of these institutions. If another use is required, this must be authorized by the work authors or their representatives. 

4.7. The people or groups that are pre-selected and selected grant from now on and just by participating in the call, authorization for their pieces to become part of the archive of the Rovira i Virgili University, and the Chilean Corporation of Video and Electronic Arts for its preservation and consultation. 

5.Selection and jury

5.1.  The convening institutions will make a first selection of the works, which will be part of each thematic line and which will be presented to the competition jury. 

5.2 The jury will be made up of five members: (1) a member designated by the Aula de Cinema i Arts Audiovisuals of the URV, (2) a member designated by the Art and Media Platform (PAM), (3) a member designated by Mèdol - Centre d'Arts Contemporàneas de Tarragona, (4) a member appointed by the Media Arts Biennial of Santiago de Chile and (5) a person linked to the world of audiovisual production and festivals, who will act as jury president. 

If during the evaluation development occurs any incompatibility, inability or fact that reduces the impartiality of a jury member, he or she must refrain from evaluating the short film in question, and will be informed to the jury president or, failing that, to the secretary, and it will be registered in the respective record. 

In the case that the decision is not unanimous, the jury president will decide the award. 

The jury's decision will be accompanied by a final record, signed by all members of the jury, which will register the agreements and the winning works, as well as a brief report on the decision. 

The list of winning videos will be published on the website of the Aula de Cinema i Arts Audiovisuals of the URV /es/vida-campus/arte-cultura/cine/ 

6.Rights and duties of the participants  

6.1.  Under no circumstances will be accepted into the competition works that do not respect human rights or democratic values, or that contain offensive or disrespectful content towards individuals or groups. 

6.2.  Those who compete are responsible for ensuring that there are no rights to third parties for the use of musical pieces in the works presented, nor any claim for image rights of the people who appear in them; exempting the convening institutions from any liability derived from plagiarism or any other transgression of current legislation that any of the participants in the award or the participants in the shorts may incur. 

6.3 Those who compete give to the convening institutions the exhibition rights detailed in points 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 of this submission, which will always be exercised with the recognition of authorship, unless expressly stated. 

6.3. Participation in this contest implies full acceptance of these terms and conditions. 

6.4. No short film selected to be part of the contest may be withdrawn from it. 

7. Regulation

Taking part in this contest assumes that the rules are fully accepted. Any doubt about the interpretation of these rules or any incident that occurs during the call, must be resolved by the competition jury, whose decisions are final. 

In everything these bases aren't  expressly provided for, apply the precepts contained in Law 26/2010, of August 3, on the legal and procedural regime of Catalonia Public Administration, and Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the common administrative procedure of public administrations. 

-

For any questions regarding these TERMS AND CONDITIONS, you can contact  aula.cinema.urv(ELIMINAR)@gmail.com

-

Visit the winning works of the first edition.

---

•  Instagram
• Vimeo
•  Ivoox