Cinema St. Louis and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts invite St. Louis-area filmmakers to project their imaginations on the Pulitzer building by creating short silent films that employ light as a key element.

In conjunction with the current exhibition, Dan Flavin: Constructed Light, the submitted "light works" will be digitally projected on several exterior surfaces of the Pulitzer throughout the evening of June 5th. Cinema St. Louis will then choose one of the films to screen as part of the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, held from July 19-24, 2008.

St. Louis-area filmmakers interested in participating must create SILENT shorts that meet the following three criteria:

• - Incorporate light as an important aspect of the work.
• - Run a maximum of 5 minutes (no minimum running time).
• - Exclude ALL sound, including music, effects and dialogue.
• Experimental, narrative, animated, and documentary approaches are all acceptable. The shorts can be shot in any film or video format, in either color or black-and-white. Filmmakers must live within a 120-mile radius of St. Louis. All films must be submitted on DVD.
  

Click here for an entry form.

DVD and entry form should be sent to:

Cinema St. Louis, Attention: Light Works, Centene Center for Arts & Education, 3547 Olive St., St. Louis, MO 63103-1014. There is no entry fee. Deadline is May 15, 2008. Submission of a short does not guarantee its use at the Pulitzer event. For more information, call Cinema St. Louis at 314-289-4150.