Open Video Projects

OVP provides accessibility to contemporary art, film, and audiovisual culture through the use of video screenings and video-inspired initiatives and events. Open Video Projects addresses the intricacies of the relationship between cinema and contemporary art and also investigates how audiovisual production is active in other cultural fields like performance, architecture, dance and photography. Artists' film and video, documentaries, experimental cinema, film shorts, video installations and other audio-visual productions which fall out of these prescribed categories are often mixed together in OVP programs. The screenings are often viewed outside the traditional context of movie theaters, art galleries, museums and television - by holding screening in varied locations OVP is able to reach a diverse public. Proposing video screenings to varied or unfamiliar audiences, OVP creates suggestive experiences for both viewer and author.