AISLE 9

CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS – DUE FEB 4, 2025

Video Submission for Aisle 9

We are hosting an open call for videos to be included on screens within the fictional world of Aisle 9, a short experimental narrative film by artist and filmmaker Alison Nguyen.

Context: The film, Aisle 9, is a work of speculative fiction that deals with cultural memory, censorship, and subversion of state control. In the final scene of the film, workers in a warehouse uncover boxes of censored cultural objects, including personal and poetic videos of everyday life. The videos submitted will be shown on a collection of screens layered throughout the background space of a warehouse. Aisle 9 will premiere in a public installation at the end of March and may have an additional cinema version.

To be included in this fictional world, share videos shot on your iPhone, your home movies, selfie videos, etc by Tuesday, February 4th. We are looking for imagery of people, places, and moments of your own world. Nothing is too idiosyncratic or inconsequential. Ideally, these videos would have been made recently, though we are open to those that date up to 15 years back. 

Duration: At least 15 seconds, ideally longer.  No maximum restriction on length
Note: If you are sending a video and you would like to only use parts of it please indicate timecode
File format: .mp4, H264
Aspects Ratios: 16:9 or 9:16; 4:3 are also welcome

Some reference examples include: 
Jonas Mekas’ Walden
Bunny Rogers’ Diary Films
aviation youtube
LA Fire Home Video

Please use this link to upload your video(s) and sign the material release form: Video Submission for Aisle 9. Please indicate if you would like credit/special thanks in the exhibition text and film credits.

Thank you,

Analoga Co. and Alison Nguyen