AMPLIFY Spring 2021: CALL FOR WORK

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Our Spring 2021 AMPLIFY season is designed to engage with AMPLIFY’s core and interconnected values: care, community, and sustainability.

AMPLIFY came together in response to white supremacist violence in our country and community. As such, our current moment requires that we take the necessary time to exercise AMPLIFY’s core values of care, community and sustainability. We are suspending our current deadlines and schedule while we are actively planning AMPLIFY’S role in and response to this moment. We want to move forward with you, your work and your ideas in mind. The submission forms will remain open. We invite you to submit your work to be showcased in AMPLIFY: CARE, AMPLIFY: COMMUNITY, and/or AMPLIFY: SUSTAINABILITY, each described below Please also feel free to reach out at lbamplify[at]gmail.com. More to come. Take care, we are thinking of you.

Professor Susan Sojourna Collier, Professor Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz, Dr. Jade Petermon, Dr. Alessandra Raengo

AMPLIFY: CARE

Submit your work for consideration in AMPLIFY: CARE here

Care is not a concept but a practice, an orientation toward putting the other first - those who are hurting more than we are. It’s listening, before speaking; it’s doing before making statements; it’s uplifting rather than putting down.

We all know when we are not cared for.

Faced with a lack of institutional care for those we care for, AMPLIFY instituted a separate space. What are your spaces, practices, orientations, languages, and modes of listening and communing?

For AMPLIFY: Care, we are seeking videos, no longer than 7min, produced by undergraduate, graduate, or recent alum of GSU using found footage, original content, or any combination. We are interested in works that address some of the following questions (this is not an exhaustive list):

  • How are you caring for yourself or your community in your work?

  • How do you or others demonstrate care? What can we learn from those approaches to care?

  • What does care mean to you or to the communities you’re featuring in your work? How do practices of care enter your work? What are filmmaking/media making processes you use in which you enact care?

  • In what ways are you developing a visual language for care? Especially for Black and BIPOC communities traditionally maligned/wounded by media?

AMPLIFY: COMMUNITY

Submit your work for consideration in AMPLIFY: COMMUNITY here

We have spent much time meditating on community and what it means to us as a collective. Primarily, over the past 6 months AMPLIFY has become a vital community of care and sustainability for each of us as we navigate the hostile halls of academe. Secondly, we acknowledge that we each belong to and are shaped by our own individual artistic, familial, intellectual, ancestral communities and we seek to honor these communities with our work. Finally, the primary community the AMPLIFY seeks to serve is GSU students and alumni as they navigate the Atlanta film and media industries.

For AMPLIFY: Community, we are seeking videos ,no longer than 7min, produced by undergraduate, graduate, or recent alum of GSU using found footage, original content, or any combination. We are interested in works that address some of the following questions (this is not an exhaustive list):

  • How do you understand/define community?

  • How do you “face your band”?

  • What community or communities sustain you and how?

  • How have you built an artistic community for yourself? How does it feed your artistry?

  • How does your community hold you accountable?

  • What community or communities do you hope to serve or reach your work?

  • In what ways are you developing a visual language for community? Especially for Black and BIPOC communities traditionally maligned/wounded by media?

AMPLIFY: SUSTAINABILITY

Submit your work for consideration in AMPLIFY: SUSTAINABILITY here

We aim in this value to uplift and advance media making careers which are rooted in and expressing a set of values or a particular orientation to systems of power. We are concerned with values that position media as a tool for advocacy, protest, reflection, healing, and community-building. We also understand sustainability as helping foster mutually beneficial and synergistic relationships between values-aligned professional and creative communities.

For AMPLIFY: Sustainability, we are looking for short videos, no longer than 7min, produced by undergraduate, graduate, or recent alum of GSU using found footage, original content, or any combination. We are interested in works that address some of the following questions (this is not an exhaustive list):

  • How are your sustainability practices a way of facing your band?

  • In your work, are you interested in fostering networks of artists and media makers who are professionalizing while remaining values-aligned?

  • What challenges do you face in bringing your work into institutions that may not be values-aligned?

  • Are you working toward creating alternative networks and spaces?

  • Are you having trouble networking and/or are you skeptical of the nature of networks that currently exist?

  • How do you honor and uplift various lineages, traditions, and histories in your practice and throughout your professional community?

  • How do you stay centered and inspired?

  • In what ways are you developing a visual language for sustainability? Especially for Black and BIPOC communities traditionally maligned/wounded by media?


Our understanding of these concepts--care, community, sustainability-- draws, among other writings and art, from the following: