OVP seeks to provide accessibility to contemporary art, film, and audio-visual culture through the use of video screenings.

In recent years, audiovisual formats and techniques have exponentially increased, a reality which has led us to projects that specifically address the use of the medium as well as works which investigate the possibilities of new forms. The screening series and archive also functions as a means to see how audio-visual production is used in other cultural fields (performance, architecture, dance, photography, etc.)

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 screenings. 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.

Archive
OVP is assembling an audio-visual archive through the use of international open calls, invitiation, and project proposals by local and visiting artists, filmmakers, curators and writers. Works are selected based on quality and not an adherence to specific themes or formats.

Selection criteria
Submitted material is divided into seven categories; the most significant examples of each will be included in the screenings and archive. The categories are: Artists' film and video, Film Shorts, Experimental Cinema, Music Videos, Video Installations, Documentaries and works that fall out of these prescribed categories. Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

- Organic unity between the theoretical and technical
- Originality

Founders
Lorenzo Benedetti is co-curator of the Sound Art Museum, in Rome, Italy, the exhibition curator of the MARTa Herford museum in Herford, Germany and since 2009, the director of De Vleeshal in Middleburg, Holland.

Sarra Brill is an AV artist/filmmaker and was co-director of the New York-based art collective, Aviate.

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