“Häxan (Danish title: Heksen; English title: The Witches or Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts. The film was made as a documentary but contains dramatised sequences that are comparable to horror films. " - Wikipedia


7th edition of Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival is taking place 10 - 17 February 2017 in The North Atlantic, in April 2017 in Hong Kong and through the year will be continued as an international touring and exchange programme


Artists from anywhere in the world are invited to submit works of any of three categories:
*Video Art (digital, video, film artworks and installations)
**Experimental Film (specified length film)
***Other (robotic / optic / organic / supernatural / other cinema)


HÄXAN, as a theme, is an invitation " to follow the witch's flight", to engage into audiovisual sorcery, to re-define the the boundaries


The submitted works can be :
- an interaction with Benjamin Christensen's film Häxan and exploration of the past, present and the future of witchcraft
- any new form of audiovisual sorcery: new rituals, new spells, new images and sounds
- exploration of the altered mental states, mental illness and witchcraft
- about sex: in connection with shapeshifting, transmogrification, morphological freedom and witchcraft
- technological experiments with "local" / place - specific elements to create new devices and media for making video art and experimental film


The submitted works can not be :
- live performances


Download submission form here >


Contact: papaygyronights@papawestray.org