Art By Chance Ultra Short Film Festival.

Art By Chance Ultra Short Film Festival uses the film medium to integrate art into the urban environment, targeting a global audience: with a selection of 25 films lasting 30 seconds that will be screened in more than 200 cities in over 20 countries around the world – from 15 January to 15 February. 

Promoting art by occupying urban spaces normally set aside for publicity is not a new idea – we’ve seen it already in initiatives like Brandalism in England, which uses art to take back the street as a place of communication belonging to the community.



The Art By Chance Ultra Short Film Festival also uses public places to screen films submitted by artists and filmmakers from all over the world. The Festival was established in 2009 by Hatice Caglar and Yener Ozgur Ozaydin and is based in Istanbul, Turkey: this year’s theme for the selected films is “Discover”. 

Wherever you are between 15 January and 15 February (you can see the full list of screening locations on the Festival website), you can treat yourself to front row seats to watch the screening of previews, shards of creativity that break up the routine of everyday life of passersby – in airports, in stations, in shopping centres, in offices. 



A great way to stir up interest in art and beauty, no longer locked away in museums but right out there for everyone to see, consistent with our global, connected world.

You can follow the initiative and discuss it in social media using the hashtags #ArtByChance #ChanceDiscoveries, and the general public can even vote for their favourite film (http://discoverartbychance.com/).

(Christiane Bürklein)

Art By Chance Ultra Short Film Festival
from 15 January to 15 February 2015
Screenings: http://artbychance.org/screening.htm
Public voting: http://discoverartbychance.com/
Credits:
BBC Big Screen – Leeds UK - Courtesy of Art By Chance
Bradford City of Film - Courtesy of Art By Chance
Montreal Metro Station - Photo Credit: Metro Vision Canada
Ben Bridge Shopping Mall - San Fransisco - Photo Credit: Adspace Network
Big Screen Plaza – New York - Photo Credit: Big Screen Plaza
Istinye Park Shopping Mall – Istanbul, Turkey - Courtesy of Art By Chance